Skills Required To Clean Up After Children's Lunch

[young]

Our Assignment Module Number and Heading: HLTWHS001 PARTICIPATE IN WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
Your Assignment Type:
Your knowledge: Beginner

question：
Activity
You are required to clean up after the lunchtime food service, in accordance with WHS legislation and your workplace policies and procedures.
Documentation Required:
Considering the policies and procedures at your service, record:
a. The steps required to carry out the task in the order that you will perform them.
b. The skills and knowledge required to carry out the tasks


my answer：
Steps taken to carry out task
Cleaning steps：
Return the kitchenware to the kitchen with the trolley.
Push the cleaning tool at the cleaning area
put empty trash can beside
Wear gloves and aprons when cleaning.
Use a sponge to clean up the visible food residue or grease.
Wipe the table with a neutral detergent, then, wipe the table with hot water.
Wipe the bench with hot water
Clean the floor and wipe the floor with hot water.
All dishes and utensils are to be washed in hot water in the kitchen and then put in the dishwasher
The surface of utensils that contact food need to be washed with hot water and neutral detergent, then dried by air.
Ensure floors are dry after washing to prevent slips or falls when staff and children are walking on it.
Surfaces that children frequently contact with bench tops, cots and table should be cleaned with warm water and detergent using the appropriate colour coded sponge.
Sort out the garbage

Skills and knowledge required
Knowledge required:
School procedures
Record keeping
Structure of the School
Skills required:
Highly developed oral and written communications and interpersonal skills with children, parents and other staffs
Customer service skills
An ability to manage complex and competing tasks
Strong organisational ability
Willingness to accept responsibility
Ability to work without supervision
Ability to foresee potential problems and provide positive solutions
Ability to follow up requests from colleagues
Respond and act upon internal/external enquiries
Time management skills
We must learn about health and infection control policies
We must learn clean technology and know how to identify WHS (work, health and safety) hazards and keep clean workplaces.
Understand the responsibility
We must learn how to choose to clean equipments and chemicals. When we have the apropriate tools, cleaning is easier. We may need to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) to perform certain aspects of our work, such as cleaning with hazardous chemicals. An alternative to chemical cleaning is to use natural / green cleaning products.
We must learn color coding, which is based on the type of cleaning area using different color cleaning cloth, mop and bucket.
All personal hygiene requirements and regulations must be observed when preparing for cleaning.
A cleaning plan is required.
1. Check all surfaces, tools and equipments which ones need to clean.
2. Look at the current cleaning method.
3. Estimate time and skill required for each task.
4. Evaluate cleaning requirements skills.
5. Good housekeeping skills, cleaning and disinfection skills.
6. Waste treatment and recycling waste skills.

feedback：
Steps taken to carry out task- Please be specific to how did you do cleaning in family day care after children had their meals. I can see you have put in lots of information most of it is not relevant to your work place.
The skills and knowledge required to carry out the tasks. Please revise your answer for skills and knowledge required. Imagine a new staff member has started and has absolutely no knowledge about Early Childhood, and you have to teach them what to do. What skills and knowledge does she/ he need about each item/ step? Also think about any important aspects of this task in relation to Work, Health and Safety. Too much information, most of it is not relevant to early childhood.


The feedback gave me a lot of guidance, but I still have no idea. Anyone can help me ?thanks.

[Lorina]

Ok, so, first of all, think about when you eat your lunch, dinner etc. and what you do to clean up afterwards...

Put gloves on...

1) Put cutlery in a bowl of soapy water on the trolley
2) Stack cups on trolley
3) Scrape food scraps in the bin
4) Stack plates on top of each other
5) Place trolley in the kitchen
6) Use a cloth and wipe the crumbs off the table
7) Spray and wipe down the table.
8) Move chairs away from table
9) Broom crumbs off the floor
10) Mop the floor
11) Do kitchen work etc.

Hope this gives you an idea...

,
Lorina

[young]

Ok, so, first of all, think about when you eat your lunch, dinner etc. and what you do to clean up afterwards...

Put gloves on...

1) Put cutlery in a bowl of soapy water on the trolley
2) Stack cups on trolley
3) Scrape food scraps in the bin
4) Stack plates on top of each other
5) Place trolley in the kitchen
6) Use a cloth and wipe the crumbs off the table
7) Spray and wipe down the table.
8) Move chairs away from table
9) Broom crumbs off the floor
10) Mop the floor
11) Do kitchen work etc.

Hope this gives you an idea...

,
Lorina

Thank you，Lorina, you really give me a lot of help. Have a lovely day!

[Lorina]

You're most welcome !

,
Lorina