2-022 Course

Health and Safety in NZ ECE: Compliance and best practice

This short course has been designed as a Health and Safety assurance process for people working in early childhood services in New Zealand, and covers the eight key sections of the Health and Safety aspects in the ECE Licensing Criteria.

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$39 per person

Can you sleep at night feeling confident that children in your ECE service are safe in the care of your team?
How do you provide training for giving medication to meet this requirement of the licensing criteria?
Does your team understand and uphold the health and safety licensing criteria consistently throughout your whole environment?

This short course covers NZ's Health and Safety Licensing Criteria for ECE services. It is designed to be a place where teams can build and test their knowledge of critical requirements, ensuring they are compliant, knowledgeable, and capable of keeping your service safe.

Enrol your team for their health and safety training, and each person receives a certificate confirming their ability to be compliant.

And remember to register new staff as part of your induction so that you can be assured that all staff are capable of compliance and keeping your ECE service healthy and safe consistently.

This course covers;

Safe and healthy environments - what are our obligations?
How to keep yourself safe.
Managing illness and exclusion - responding to high temperatures, what to do when children become unwell.
How to administer medication (including Epipens, Ventolin for asthma, oral medication).
Managing accidents and incidents.
Outdoor safety and compliance.
Dealing with emergencies.
Food and drink compliance.
Safe sleep

Each section of this course is assessed, and you will need to pass every section to gain a certificate of completion.*H&S workbook provided with this course.

About the presenter

Angela Bush

Founder - ECE Learning Unlimited

Bachelor of Education (ECE), Diploma of Nursing, Diploma of Teaching (ECE)

Angela is a degree qualified and registered ECE teacher, multiple ECE centre owner, curriculum leader and business manager of ECE Learning Unlimited. She is also a registered nurse.

With over thirty years in ECE and centre ownership, Angela has a wealth of experience and knowledge in successful ECE leadership and centre management.

Over the years Angela has also had roles as a lecturer in ECE, nanny, teacher, and mentor.

After going through some health and safety practices at work recently I found it really helpful that this course noted these practices with links to the legislation.

— Precious

I found this course very informative and I really like that there were lots of resources and links to further information in each area that I can access and share with my team.

— Tonia

I loved this course. It was very helpful and informative which will help me to ensure we are compliant and confident in our policies, procedures and daily practice.

— Michelle

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