CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children.

Workplace Tasks

CHCECE016
Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment
for children

Workplace Assessment Task

Unit Purpose
The assessment tasks within this unit provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate evidence of the
knowledge and skills required to establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children.

Elements
The following elements define the essential outcomes of this unit:

 Element 1 Support each child’s health needs

 Element 2 Provide for each child’s comfort

 Element 3 Promote and implement effective hygiene practices

 Element 4 Take steps to control the spread of infectious diseases

 Element 5 Ensure adequate supervision of children

 Element 6 Take precaution to protect children from harm

 Element 7 Develop plans to effectively manage incidents and emergencies

Assessment Requirements
 001: Safety Practices
 002: Illness and Incident Notification

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 003: Hygiene Practices

Authenticity Requirements
Copying or passing off someone’s work as your own is a form plagiarism and may result in a participant’s
exclusion from a unit or the entire course.

The following activities will be considered plagiarism:

 Presenting any work by another individual as one's own intentionally or unintentionally

 Handing in work copied from another student.

 Presenting the work of another individual or group as their own work.

 Handing in work without the adequate acknowledgement of sources used, including work taken
totally or in part from the internet.

You must PRINT AND SIGN this document

Student Declaration
You must sign your completed workplace tasks and acknowledge the authenticity of your work prior to
submission to the College.

I understand my responsibility to provide assessment responses with my own materials and thoughts,
except where specifically acknowledged or taken from other sources. The material contained in these tasks
is my own work.

I understand that at any time if it is shown, that in an assessment task, a student has significantly
misrepresented material, any assessment outcome awarded to that student on the basis of this material
may be revoked including any qualification outcomes and/ or statement of attainment

Name: Signature: Date:

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Assessment Instructions
Students are required to complete a range of assessment tasks throughout the training period to demonstrate
competency in each relevant unit. To facilitate the appropriate learning and practice of developing skills
ALL workplace assessment tasks MUST be completed within a regulated children's service. Workplace
supervisors must authenticate these tasks have been completed, under supervision and to an acceptable
workplace standard for organisation policies and procedures.

Attempting assessment tasks

Students are required to provide appropriate responses to the indicated questions for each task.

Assessment Outcomes
The Early Childhood Education and Care training packages are vocational qualifications that are competency
based. For each assessment undertaken you will be assessed as Satisfactory, Not Yet Satisfactory or
Incomplete. Where students are assessed as ‘Not Yet Satisfactory’ or ‘Incomplete’ the trainer/assessor will
provide the student with feedback and guidance regarding what needs to be completed for resubmission.

Student Appeals
Students have the right to appeal an unfavourable decision or finding during assessment. All student appeals
must be made in writing using the Appeals Form and specify the particulars of the decision or finding in dispute.
Appeals must be lodged within 28 days of the decision or finding.

Required Readings
In order to complete this unit of competency you are required to access the following key resources.

Textbook

 Kearns, K. (2017). The Big Picture: Working in Early Childhood Education and Care Series (4th ed.).
Victoria: Cengage Learning Australia.

Core Documents

 Guide to the National Quality Framework. (2017). Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality
Authority http://files.acecqa.gov.au/files/NQF/Guide-to-the-NQF.pdf (Accessed January 2018)

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001 Safety Practices

CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children
Element 3 Promote and implement effective hygiene practices

Element 4 Take steps to control the spread of infectious diseases

Element 6 Take precaution to protect children from harm

Element 7 Develop plans to effectively manage incidents and emergencies

Performance Evidence

Knowledge Evidence

Activity 1
To complete this task refer to Chapter 3 and 4 of your textbook ‘The Big Picture’ and refer to your readings:

 Guide to the National Quality Framework.

For this activity you are required to investigate how safety is implemented and communicated within your
workplace.

Locate each of the safety items or symbols at your workplace and answer the questions in relation to
the policies and procedures of your workplace.

Document your responses on the ‘Safety Practices’ template.

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Workplace Task 001 – Activity 1

Safety Practices

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Safety area and/or symbol Questions to investigate

Close the gate sign How is this message reinforced to parents in your
service?

SunSmart sign How is a Sun Smart policy implemented in your

service?

What information is provided to parents about this

policy?

Telephone Where are emergency numbers located?

What is the procedure in place for educators to have

ready access to a phone or similar means of
communication?

Nappy change area What practices are in place to minimise the risk of
infection to children and adults?

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Emergency evacuation plan Where are evacuation plans located?

Where are the external assembly points?

What do staff take with them when there is an

emergency evacuation?

How often are emergency evacuation drills practised

and discussed with children and educators?

How is this information communicated to parents and

families?

Hand washing procedure posters Where are hand washing posters located in your
service?

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How is hand washing monitored in your service?

Exit signs Where are the exit signs located in your service?

Fire-fighting equipment Where is fire-fighting equipment located in your

service? (indicate the type of equipment at each
location)

How often is emergency equipment tested?

How are staff trained in the use of emergency

equipment?

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Child-proof barriers Where are child-proof barriers used in your service?

Wet floor sign Where is the wet floor sign located in your service and
when should it be used?

Sign-in/out forms for children’s Where is the sign-in/out forms located?

attendance

What happens to these forms at the end of each day?

Resuscitation posters Where are resuscitation posters located in your

service?

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Pest Inspections How often are pest/ vermin inspections or eradications

carried out and how are these records maintained?

Visitors book What is the process for monitoring who enters and
leaves the premises at all times during the day?

Electrical appliances
What is the process for ensuring the safety of electrical
appliances at the service?

How does the service ensure children remain safe

around electrical devices e.g. power points, fry pans
during cooking experiences etc.?

Hazardous substances
How does the service identify where hazardous and/or
dangerous products are stored?

Activity 2
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To complete this task refer to Chapter 3 of your textbook ‘The Big Picture’ and Chapter 3 of ‘The Business of
Child Care’.

This task requires you to demonstrate knowledge and ability of coordinating emergency evacuation or
lockdown of the service. In conjunction with your workplace supervisor you may choose any relevant type of
emergency situation for the procedure e.g. fire, snake, chemical hazard etc. You should read the policy and
reflect on the procedures you would go through in accordance with the Emergency Policy and Procedures of
the service. You should also be clear about your role and responsibilities involved in this emergency
evacuation and demonstrate the leadship skills and communication strategies required to coordinate the
emergency procedures.

Document your assessment on the ‘Emergency Evacuation Lockdown Record’ template.

Workplace Task 001 – Activity 2

Reflection on Emergency Evacuation/Lockdown Procedures

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Describe how you would coordinate an emergency response including an evacuation drill.

What leadership skills do you think you need to manage the emergency?

What communication strategies are you going to use in this emergency practice?

How would you inform families about the service’s emergency procedures?

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002 Illness and Incident Notification

CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children
Element 4 Take steps to control the spread of infectious diseases

Knowledge Evidence

Activity 1
To complete this task refer to Chapter 4 of your textbook ‘The Big Picture’.

For this activity you are required to investigate the policy and procedures in place at your service in relation
to incident and illness notification.

Specifically you will investigate:

 The policies and procedures at your service that guide the staff in dealing with incidents and
illnesses in relation to children.
 The process to ensure current records of children’s immunisation status are up-to-date and
the systems to maintain the currency of these records.
 The procedure used in your service to notify families of illness or injuries that affect children
whilst in education and care.
 The procedure to minimise the risk of an infectious disease spreading of a child becomes ill
while in care.
 The procedures used to advise families and public health authorities of cases of notifiable
infectious diseases at the service.

Document your responses on the ‘Illness and Injury Notification’ template.

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Workplace Task 002 – Activity 1

Illness and Injury Notification

What policies and procedures relate to illness and injuries at your service?

What is the process to ensure current records of children’s immunisation status are up-to-date and
what system is in place to maintain the currency of these records?

What is the procedure used in your service to notify families of illness or injuries that affect children
whilst in education and care?

What is the procedure to minimise the risk of an infectious disease spreading if a child becomes ill
while in care? (E.g. configuring groups of children).

What is the procedure to advise families and public health authorities of cases of notifiable infectious
diseases at the service?

003 Hygiene Practices

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Element 3 Promote and implement effective hygiene practices

Activity 1
To complete this task refer to Chapter 4 of your textbook ‘The Big Picture’.

For this activity you are required to investigate the policy and procedures in place at your service in relation
to the promotion and implementation of effective hygiene practices.

Specifically you will investigate:

 How the service accesses information on current hygiene practices.

 The procedure and schedules to ensure a regular system of washing children’s toys and
equipment at the service.
 The system the service uses to provide families with information and support in following the
services hygiene procedures.
 The location of handwashing procedures on display at the service.

Document your plan on the ‘Hygiene Practices’ template.

Workplace Task 003 – Activity 1

Hygiene Practices

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Describe how the service accesses information on current hygiene practices.

What is the procedure and schedule the service uses to ensure a regular system of washing children’s
toys and equipment?

How does the service provide families with information and support in following the services hygiene
procedures?

List the areas where handwashing procedures are displayed at the service.

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