Care Certificate, Standard 13 of 15
Health and safety
Your duties and your employer's under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, risk assessment as a daily habit rather than paperwork, safe moving and handling principles including the right to refuse an unsafe manoeuvre, medication and hazardous substances, stress, and accident reporting.
Why this standard matters in practice
Care work has one of the highest rates of workplace injury in the UK economy, almost all of it from moving people and almost all of that preventable by technique and by refusing the unsafe shortcut.
How it is assessed
The knowledge in this standard is assessed by a knowledge check, which you can take here as part of the Care Certificate course. Attempts are unlimited and marking happens on our servers, so the answers are never sent to the browser.
This standard has a practical half. The knowledge is taught here in full, but the physical technique in this standard has to be observed by a competent assessor in your own workplace, using your own equipment. No online certificate substitutes for that, ours included.
Questions about Standard 13
Can I refuse to lift someone without equipment?
Yes, and you should. If the handling plan says two people and a hoist, doing it alone by hand is not heroism, it is the mechanism by which workers are injured and people are dropped. The law protects a refusal to work unsafely, and the standard teaches how to refuse and escalate so the person is still cared for.