HSC CYP 2: Understanding risk within health, social care and children’s and young people’s settings

1. Know how to recognise potential risks to worker and others

• 1.1. Describe environmental situations that could pose risk to worker and others
• 1.2. Identify risks arising from the physical and/or emotional state of individuals and carers

2. Know how to assess and manage risk

• 2.1. Describe the positive and negative aspects of risk
• 2.2. Describe the importance of assessing and managing risk
• 2.3. Outline ways of assessing risk in any given situation
• 2.4. Explain ways in which risk could be managed

3. Understand how to identify circumstances in which risk taking should be encouraged

• 3.1. Give examples of instances where risk taking is essential
• 3.2. Identify the benefits of the risk taking to individuals from the examples identified
• 3.3 Outline safety measures that will minimise the risks identified without reducing the benefits of these risks