Carry out a Health and Safety survery of a local environment used by a patient or service user group

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Task 2, 3 and 4

Task 2 - Carry out a health and safety survey of a local environment used by a patient, service user group.

Task 3 -Assess the risk associated with the use of the chosen environment and make recommendation for change

Task 4 - Justify recommendations for minimising risks as appropriate for the setting and service user groups

In these tasks I have decided to look at a park near to were I live called Cherryvale Playing Fields, which contains a children’s play area.

To do to do task 1 I decided that I would carry out a risk assessment using the format used by the Health and Safety Executive.

Reference:

This outlines five steps to assess risk:

  1. Identify the Hazards
  2. Decide who might be harmed and how
  3. Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
  4. Record your findings and implement them
  5. Review your assessment and update if necessary

The following tables represent what I found when I walked around the park and the children’s area. I spoke with one of the park attendants; this was easier for me as I used and still use this park to play football over the past 12 years.

Cherryvale Playing Fields – Children’s Play Area

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I will discuss some of the risks identified in more depth. In my walk around I noticed that the children’s play equipment is the same equipment I used as a child, I moved to this area when I was 1 year and 5 months and from then was taken to play there on a fairly regular bases. One of the swings had a chain broken; the slide was muddy as there had been a period of wet weather. These create risks of slipping and falling. I noticed that some of the paintwork was missing or chipped ...

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