Risk Assessments for Care Homes
This risk assessment document contains most of the usual hazards encountered in a typical care home and the risks they generate. Not only does it show the hazards and risks encountered it also shows who is likely to be harmed by those hazards and how. It goes even further by then detailing the normal control measures used to reduce the risk from that hazard to the lowest level reasonably practical. If you already have these in place simply tick off and your record is complete. If you do not you can adopt the control measures shown or insert your own.
The document is also available electronically so that it can be easily updated to suit your individual care home. This method of risk assessment has been tried and tested and saves a considerable amount of time and effort for the busy care home manager.
Risk assessment is a legal requirement and the regulator, CQC, will be looking to see evidence of suitable risk assessments as will the Health and Safety Executive or Local Authority Inspector, who enforce H&S legislation. In the near future they will soon be more active in the social care sector due to the high number of injuries to staff and residents. Local Authority Commissioning units will also be looking more closely at risk assessments as part of their checks before letting contracts to their suppliers.
Our documents have been written by H&S professionals who have a detailed knowledge of the challenges faced by care staff by the type of work they do and the client group they work with. The generic risk assessment document has been developed over a number of years and has been accepted by enforcing inspectors who agree that this is a sensible method of carrying out risk assessments.
Using this document makes risk assessment much more straight forward and assists you to concentrate on the more serious risks and ignore the trivial.
To order your copy, simply complete the order form and send or fax it to us.
Orders are normally despatched within 5 days. If you would like any further information please do not hesitate to contact us on 01939 261539 or email info@centralmanagementsystems.co.uk
