1.2 Explain The Importance Of Health And Safety At Work

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The health and safety at work act was introduced to secure the health, safety and welfare of anyone who enters the setting including; children, parents/carers, staff or visitors. As employees, we have to maintain the health and safety requirements by; reporting anything which concerns us, using safe equipment and wearing appropriate protective clothing. We do this is our setting at meal times and while we are changing nappies. At meal times, we wear protective clothing by; wearing an apron and gloves (if your nails are painted) and tying your hair up so it’s away from the food. At nappy changing time we carry this out by changing our gloves and apron after each nappy and wearing our hair

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