Title: Identify procedures for maintaining a safe home environment.
Course: Home Health Aide (14053) > Section: Understanding Safety

Identification should include

- ways to identify and report hazards according to the guidelines from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, National Safety Council; Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- safe storage of hazardous chemicals, including instruction in Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- factors that increase a client’s risk of falling
- factors that increase a client’s risk of being burned.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How should one plan, implement, and evaluate general and client-specific home-environment safety precautions and procedures?
- What might be the consequences of not following all safety precautions and procedures?
- What are OSHA’s bloodborne pathogen standards?
- What might be the consequences of not documenting all safety precautions and procedures?