Safety case study

Outcome 2: Explain the early childhood educator’s role in safety promotion
Outcome 3: Identify safety prevention strategies in early childhood programs
Instructions
This assignment will require you to use your observation skills and your knowledge of safety for young children.
For the purposes of this assignment, the child care centre was staged with safety concerns. View the child care
centre video to identify safety issues. Once you have identified ten (10) different safety issues, answer the
following three questions: 1) What is the safety concern?; 2) What role does the educator play in preventing
this concern?; and 3) What changes could be made in the centre to eliminate this concern? Consider what the
regulations are regarding the issue.
Safety issue 1: ____ ( a brief title to the safety issue)
Then answer the three questions. Finish one issue and then continue this format for each of the other safety
issues you find.
What is the safety concern?
What role does the educator play in preventing this concern?
What changes could be made in the centre to eliminate this concern? Consider what the regulations are
regarding the issue.