Rationale
The nursery must be a safe, secure and hygienic environment for children, families, visitors and staff.
Aims
- To monitor carefully the condition of the environment both inside and out and the resources within them.
- To ensure all resources and resource areas are used correctly with regards to safety and hygiene.
- To promote awareness and practice of personal hygiene.
- To promote awareness and practice of personal safety.
- To promote awareness and practice of food safety.
Objectives
- To promote the washing of hands before entering the playrooms, before and after using the toilet, before and after handling food, after using ‘messy’ resources after playing outside.
- All fresh fruits to be washed before consumption.
- All surfaces to be kept bacterially clean.
- Chopping boards to be in a variety of colours for specific food use.
- Temperature of the fridge to be monitored.
- All utensils to be in good working order and condition.
- All foodstuffs should be labelled and dated when opened/expire.
- Monitoring of cleaning standards to be ongoing and any concerns reported to the cleaning supervisor by a member of the SMT.
- All spillages to be mopped up and the correct procedures followed for body spillages.
- All resources to be in good working order and placed appropriately depending on whether children should or shouldn’t have easy access to them.
- Fire tests to be held weekly and unannounced drills termly.
- First Aid equipment to be inspected and replenished regularly by the named First Aider and recorded appropriately.
- Visitors etc. to be informed about safety issues e.g. Fire Exits, Child Protection, securing doors and gates etc.
- Environments to be checked daily before children use them and any risks removed.
- Equipment to be placed in a safe position.
- Staff to encourage safe play at all times both inside and out.
- Children to be made aware of ‘Road Safety’ and ‘Stranger Danger’.
- Staff and children to be ‘sun safe’ and a high factor worn (factor 50).
- Shaded areas outside to be identified in the event of a hot day.
- Fire Registers to be taken every day in the playrooms by staff.
- Staff awareness of moving and handling.
- Procedures for using the Accident Book adhered to.
- Risk Assessment completed for premises, playrooms, outdoors, outings, individual children and staff.
- Provide a non-smoking environment.
- All gates and doors to be closed when not in use and when entering or leaving the building.
- All relevant staff members to be advised when a member of staff leaves the room.
- Staff must position themselves so that they can see the full view of the playroom and be aware of all of the children.
- Regularly check and update the Allergy list.
- Be aware of who is allowed to collect a child. The nursery must be informed of any changes
- Head of Nursery to comply with Management Circulars.
Success Criteria
All staff; students and visitors must adhere to the details contained within the Health and Safety policy to ensure the nursery environment is as safe and secure as possible for all.