This week’s topics
Safe handling of hazardous substances
- COSHH regulations and risk assessments
- Safe storage and disposal of clinical waste
- Personal protective equipment selection
- Managing chemical spills and body fluids
- COSHH | Hazardous Substances EXPLAINED
- COSHH Training | Module 01
- Donning/Doffing PPE and Isolation/Transmission Precautions - Fundamentals of Nursing | @LevelUpRN
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Explain how health and safety policies and procedures and other agreed ways of working underpin practice.
- 1.6 Describe safe practices for handling hazardous substances.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain how health and safety policies and procedures and other agreed ways of working underpin practice.
Study materials
Videos
- COSHH | Hazardous Substances EXPLAINED · YouTube · Safeti | Your Trusted Health and Safety Partner · 13 min · for registered students
- COSHH Training | Module 01 · YouTube · Training Express · 13 min · for registered students
- Donning/Doffing PPE and Isolation/Transmission Precautions - Fundamentals of Nursing | @LevelUpRN · YouTube · Level Up RN · 9 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Working with substances hazardous to health: a brief guide to COSHH (HSE, INDG136) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
- Infection prevention and control: resource for adult social care (UKHSA/DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
- Health and safety in care homes (HSE, HSG220) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
