This title is designed exclusively for those providing care within the Home Care setting. In considering the home carer’s duty of care to the person they're supporting and themselves, it aims to improve awareness of common hazards about the home whilst considering the importance of referring to risk assessments and care plans.

It discusses the need for improved awareness of the importance of good housekeeping when storing or disposing of chemicals, dangerous substances or sharp objects and develops an awareness of the need for safe practice in moving & assisting, food safety, infection control and fire safety. The video course goes on to briefly introduce the need to consider personal safety when visiting the homes of people you support and the importance of raising issues of concern with management and reporting injury and ill health.

Subjects covered include: 

The Law • The Care Workers' Responsibilities • Risk Assessment and the Care Plan • Slips,Trips and Falls • Moving and Assisting • COSHH • Infection Control • Food Safety • Work Equipment, Gas and Electrical Safety • Fire Safety • Injury and Disease • First Aid • Personal Safety • Occupational Stress • Summary