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G20 Make sure your own

actions reduce risks to health and safety

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Level 2Hairdressing

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Trainer Guidance Notes

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Session 1 G20Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health & safety

What this unit is about

This unit is about the health & safety of the salon environment and all the people who either visit, attend as clients or who work there. Fundamental to this unit is an understanding of the terms ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’.

What the learner must know

To perform the unit successfully the learner needs to know and understand:

1. How to identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace

2. How to reduce the risks to health & safety in the workplace

Number of hours required to teach the unit

To cover the requirements it is recommended that the knowledge and understanding for the whole unit be taught over a period of 3 – 4 hours. Those with special learning requirements may need extra time and/or support.

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Session 1 G20How to identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace

Trainer requirements to teach this session

For this session you will need the following:

• Slide G20.1.1a• Handout G20.1.1a• Handout G20.1.1b (4 pages)• Slide G20.1.1b• Slide G20.1.4• Learner Check for Session 1

Trainer notes

The session will cover

1.1 What ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’ are1.2 The responsibilities and legal duties for

health and safety in the workplace 1.3 The responsibilities for health and safety as

required by the law covering the learner’s job role

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How to identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace1.1. What ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’ are

Explain to learner that the content of the health & safety unit can be applied to all the other units in NVQ/SVQ Level 2 Hairdressing. The Health & Safety Act and its huge importance is widely recognised and accepted within the industry. It affects everything anyone does within the salon, and the way they do it.

Say - remember the song? It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it!

Stress to learners that failure to abide by the Act results in heavy penalties. Criminal proceedings, heavy fines and/or imprisonment not just for owners and managers but for the individual as well.

Explain that it is important for them to know and understand the terms ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’ and apply them to our everyday working situations.

Ref: Slide G20.1.1a

Show the slide and explain:

Hazard

“a hazard is something with potential to cause harm"

Risk

“a risk is the likelihood of the hazard’s potential being realised”

Ref: Handout G20.1.1a

Ask the learners to fill in definitions of risks and hazards.

Explain the following examples to the learners:


Session 1 G201. Trailing electric cable from a piece of equipment is

a hazard. If it is trailing across a passageway there is a high risk of someone tripping over it, but if it lies along a wall out of the way, the risk is much less.

2. Toxic or flammable chemicals stored in a building are a hazard and by their nature may present a high risk. However if they kept in a properly designed secure store and handled by properly trained and equipped people, the risk is much less than if they are left about in a busy salon for anyone to use or misuse.

3. “A failed light bulb is a hazard, if it just one light bulb out of many in a room it presents very little risk, but if it is the only light on a stairwell, it is a very high risk. Changing the bulb may be a high risk, if it is high up, or if the power has been left on, or a low risk if it is in a table lamp which has been unplugged.

4. A box of heavy material is a hazard. It presents a higher risk to someone who lifts it manually than if a mechanical handling device is properly used.

Ask the learners if they can think of any more hazards or risks that could be found in the salon.

Answers might include:

• Broken glass• Unswept hair cuttings• Chemical spillage• Exposed electrical wires• Sharps waste

It is important that learners are aware of their responsibilities under health & safety legislation.

Explain that it does depend upon their job role as to how much ‘duty’ they have. For example an employer would be held more responsible (or have more duty) than a trainee hairdresser.

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It is important to stress that the individual worker in the salon must take reasonable care of the general health & safety of themselves and others who may be affected by their failure to act.

1.2 The responsibilities and legal duties for health and safety in the workplace

Ref: Handout G20.1.1b

Use the handout to outline and explain the responsibilities of the learner for health & safety in the salon.

Ref: Slide G20.1.1b

Use the slide during the explanation of COSHH Regulations.

1.3 The responsibilities for health and safety as required by the law covering the learner’s job role

Explain that specific responsibilities for health & safety should be stated in job descriptions. If learners are unclear what their level of responsibility is, they should take advice from their employer.

Ref: Slide G20.1.3

Duties of employees

1. Employees must take reasonable care for the health & safety of themselves and of others who may be affected by what they do.

2. Employees must co-operate with their employer/owner/manager to allow full compliance to take place in the salon with regard to all health & safety legislation.

3. Employees also have a duty not to interfere with or misuse equipment, tools and products.


Session 1 G20Now use the Learner Check for Session 1 to check the understanding of the learner.

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Session 1 G20Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health & safetyLearner Check

Session 1

1. What does the word hazard mean?

2. What does the word risk mean?

3. Give three examples of a hazard that could be found in the salon.

4. What does COSHH stand for?

5. State your responsibilities as an employee for health & safety in the salon.

6. What is your responsibility under the Electricity at Work Regulations?

7. What does RIDDOR stand for?

Se

1. Hazard is something with the potential to cause harm.

2. The likelihood of the hazard's potential being realised.

3. Answers can include un-swept hair, trailing wires, toxic or flammable chemicals.

4. Control of substances hazardous to health.

5. Take reasonable care for the health & safety of themselves and others who may be affected by what they do.

Co-operate with the employer in relation to health & safety regulations.

Not to interfere with or misuse the equipment or tools and products.

6. To ensure that faulty equipment is removed from use, labelled as faulty and reported to a responsible person.

7. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations.

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Session 1 G20How to identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace

Trainer summary

1.1 What ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’ are

• a hazard is something with the potential to cause harm• a risk is the likelihood of the hazard’s potential being realised.

1.2 The responsibilities and legal duties for health and safety in the workplace

• the Health & Safety at Work Act is the principle Act from which all other health and safety regulations stems.

1.3 The responsibilities for health and safety as required by the law covering the learner’s job role

• the job role of the individual worker will determine the amount of responsibility they hold for health and safety• the individual worker must take reasonable care for the general health and safety of themselves and others who may be affected by their failure to act.

Overall, stress to learners that health & safety is vital in all that they do in the salon.

• Being vigilant will protect all who are in the salon and may in some cases save a life

• A safe, clean and healthy salon is a pleasure to work in and visit

• It promotes a professional salon image• It makes sound financial sense to have a safe

place of work where few or no accidents happen.

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How to identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace

Key/Core Skill Opportunities

They will be an opportunity to develop written communication skills by:

• Asking learners to write a formal letter to the Local Authority requesting information relating to local bye-laws for the health & safety requirements in salons.

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