D1 Risk Assesment

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Unit 3 D1: Recommendations in relation to identify hazards to minimize the risks to the service user groups 1. Feeling sick or being sick Feeling sick or being sick can contaminate the pool and can pose a serious health risk to the staff and students at Ivy house. If not attended to the pool can become a fertile breeding ground for bacteria that can cause a wide range of illnesses. For example a parasite called cryptosporidium is excreted when faeces enters the water. This can cause really bad and severe diarrhoea, sickness, stomach cramps and fever. In people with a serious medical condition, it can even be fatal and because some of the children in Ivy house may have weak immune systems already this can be a real risk for them. The pool may also have low levels of other bacteria called pseudomonas aeruginosa which can cause skin and ear infections. Things that can be done to protect the students and staff that are in the pool could be to ensuring that the staff and students that are going to swim shower before they get into a pool and this will remove many of these risks. By showering, swimmers remove the cream and sun lotions that cling to pool tiles, which in turn attract dirt. It also reduces the risk of hair, mucus and faeces entering the water. The risks can be reduced even more if a pool is properly disinfected. Chlorine based chemicals and proper filtration can kill most bacteria. The people at risk are the students and staff because in Ivy House the staff take the children into the pool so they can watch over them and help them float on top of the water so they do not drown or injure themselves. The risk of feeling sick or being sick in the pool is very low because the students or staffs are not allowed to go into the pool if they are even feeling sick therefore they will not be able to do sick in the pool so these diseases are most likely not going to
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