Incident, Injury and Trauma

Policy

One World Children’s Centre will respond to any incident, injury or trauma immediately and apply first aid as appropriate to each situation. An incident, injury, and trauma record will be completed once the child’s or adult’s health, safety and well being have been responded to.

Relevant Legislation

Education and Care Services National Regulations regulation 85

Education and Care Services National Regulations regulation 86

Education and Care Services National Regulations regulation 87

National Quality Standard 2

Sources

Education and Care Services National Regulations

National Quality Standard

Parent Handbook

Implementation

Located in your child’s playrooms is an incident, injury and trauma record book. This book is used to record all of the relevant information surrounding any incident, injury and trauma that may have affected your child whilst participating in our programs.

Included in this record is a report of the nature of the incident, injury or trauma, which is then dated and signed by the attending staff member. On arrival at the Centre, you will be told of the nature of the incident concerning your child or a staff member may ring you during the day to notify you of the incident, injury or trauma.

Your child’s safety and well being is of prime concern to us, and we plan our environment carefully and with safety in mind. In addition to this, staff at One World hold current First Aid to ensure the safety and well-being of your child, whilst in our care.

Incident, Injury or Trauma Procedure

staff to attend to the immediate needs of the child or adult
staff to assess the situation and ensure no others are at harm
staff to reassure the child or adult and assess the nature of the incident , injury or trauma
the child or adult is to be comforted throughout the situation
staff will commence first aid, if urgent medical treatment is required an ambulance will be called (a management representative will delegate duties out in relation to the management of the child/adult and situation
parents and or emergency contacts will be notified by telephone as soon as practicable should the child need medical treatment.
should the child not need medical treatment the parent will be notified when they arrive to collect their child at the end of the day (this is to be discussed and a decision made by the centre coordinator)
if the child has bumped their head the parent will be notified by telephone as soon as practicable
staff will evaluate the scene of the incident, and remove causes of the injury, or discuss the situation with other staff and children involved
an incident, injury, trauma record will be completed as soon as practicably possible and no later than 24 hours after the of the incident, injury or trauma

NB: Blood spills kits are located in bathroom, the contents of these kits are to be used when attending to an injury.