How Does Legislation Impact On Early Years Practice
Study day 10 – Managing Health and Safety
Information sheet for new staff, explaining and informing them on health and safety.
Legislation
Impact on early years practice
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (Great Britain)
Outlines the responsibility of individual employees for maintaining health and safety in the workplace.
Childcare Act 2006
Focuses on improving outcomes for children in the early years through the ‘five outcomes’ of Every Child Matters (including ‘being healthy’ and ‘staying safe’).
Introduced the Early Years Foundation Stage in 2008 (including the welfare requirements for promoting health and safeguarding children).
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
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Section 6(1) defines the duty of any person who designs, manufactures, imports or supplies any article for use at work to:
Ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the article is so designed and constructed that it will be safe and without risks to health at all times when it is being set, used, cleaned or maintained by a person at work;
Perform such testing and examination as may be necessary to ensure safety;
Take such steps as are necessary to secure that persons supplied with the article are provided with adequate information about the use for which the article is designed, or has been tested, and about any conditions necessary to ensure that it will be safe and without risks to health at all times, including when it is being dismantled or disposed of; and
Take such steps as are necessary to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons are provided with all such revisions of information as are necessary by reason of its becoming known that anything gives rise to a serious risk to health or
Information sheet for new staff, explaining and informing them on health and safety.
Legislation
Impact on early years practice
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (Great Britain)
Outlines the responsibility of individual employees for maintaining health and safety in the workplace.
Childcare Act 2006
Focuses on improving outcomes for children in the early years through the ‘five outcomes’ of Every Child Matters (including ‘being healthy’ and ‘staying safe’).
Introduced the Early Years Foundation Stage in 2008 (including the welfare requirements for promoting health and safeguarding children).
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Provides guidance for lifting …show more content…
Section 6(1) defines the duty of any person who designs, manufactures, imports or supplies any article for use at work to:
Ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the article is so designed and constructed that it will be safe and without risks to health at all times when it is being set, used, cleaned or maintained by a person at work;
Perform such testing and examination as may be necessary to ensure safety;
Take such steps as are necessary to secure that persons supplied with the article are provided with adequate information about the use for which the article is designed, or has been tested, and about any conditions necessary to ensure that it will be safe and without risks to health at all times, including when it is being dismantled or disposed of; and
Take such steps as are necessary to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons are provided with all such revisions of information as are necessary by reason of its becoming known that anything gives rise to a serious risk to health or