Alice Barnes
What exactly risk assessment?
A risk assessment is something that helps to protect yourself and the people around you. This can be a requirement in law to complete a risk assessment in every single work environment to be able to avoid any accidents that may cause anyone to hurt themselves. It also will help a lot when working with children within a setting, when you plan an activity you can think about what dangers might happen from the activity then you can assess on how to avoid those hazards so they don't happen. You can generally make your individual mind up about what a risk can be and then steer clear of it however you have to take into mind what would be a risk to and mature compared to a young child as a child can think differently to an adult. A risk assessment can be carried out when planning trips as there are a whole lot of potential hazards and risks as a result, also while you are doing a task in the classroom or planning outings. When carrying out a risk examination you need to conform it to where the activity is going to be, so if you are doing anything outdoors the hazards may be different from undertaking the same activity indoors. If you do a risk assessment children or a member of staff can be desperately hurt or if nearly anything serious occurs a child a mother or father may drag into court.
Risk checks are a good way to focus on each step from the activity and think about the potential hazards along the way. This gives you numerous of possibility to change all or part of the activity. This is why risk assessments invariably is an important component to planning activities in schools and nursery's.
Alice Barnes
My activity
Hazards
Preventing the risk
Painting- Indoor (2 year
old)
• Ingesting the color.
• Supervise the children all the time and inform the
children that fresh paint does not go in our lips.
• Putting another kid with the paintbrush.
• Supervise the children, have only a few children
painting in the past so it is not really too occupied at the desk.
• Dropping the fresh paint on the...