Maintaining a Healthy, Safe, and Secure Working Environment in Healthcare Settings

Assessment-
Unit4

Table of Contents
Part 1: Know how to assist in maintaining a healthy; safe and secure working environment.........4
1.1 Identify potential risks to health, safety and security in healthcare settings..........................4
1.2. Risks and action....................................................................................................................5
1.3 Key legislation.......................................................................................................................6
1.4 Key responsibilities held by each of the roles.......................................................................7
1.5. Ways of accessing particular methods..................................................................................9
Part 2: Use of risk assessments in relation to health and safety....................................................10
2.1 Definition.............................................................................................................................10
2.2 Steps carrying out in a risk assessment................................................................................11
2.3 Identified risks that should be reported................................................................................13
Part 3: How to reduce the spread of infection in healthcare settings.............................................13
3.1 Describe ways in which own health and hygiene might pose a risk to an individual or to
others..........................................................................................................................................13
3.2 Describe routes via which infection can enter the body......................................................14
3.3 Hand washing technique that should be practiced...............................................................14
3.4 Different types of personal protective equipment (PPE) can reduce infection....................15
3.5 Describe the circumstances when employees would be advised to stay away from
workplace...................................................................................................................................15
Part 4: How to summon immediate help in an emergency............................................................16
4.1 Identification of situations that may need an emergency.....................................................16
4.2 Describe the process for summoning immediate help in an emergency..............................16
4.3 Outline the actions that could be taken to contain the emergency until help arrives...........17
Part 5: Understand the need for, and ways of reporting incidents to health, safety and security. .18
5.1 Explain the importance of accurate and timely reporting of incidents ...............................18

5.2 Explain the method use to report an incident in healthcare organization............................19

Part 1: Know how to assist in maintaining a healthy; safe and secure
working environment
1.1 Identify potential risks to health, safety and security in healthcare settings
Environment: The welfare and safety groups would be detrimental to society if these
sustainability efforts were simply to secure the primary responsibility. Ecological and social
impact should be part of society's overall approach, not just risk.
1.Natural disasters: These are relates with the uncertainty on which peoples don't have any
control over it,this includes natural calamities which can occur any phase of time earthquake,
hurricanes,flood, fire and some kind of explosions etc.
2.Employees health and wellness: For the organization employees are there assets cause all the
working depends upon the workforce of the company so there is a need to take care about the
safety for employees by keeping them healthy and happy in respect for the welfare of healthcare
and safety point of view.
Individuals: Patient safety is the control of medical services evolved by the evolving
multicolored nature of medical service calls and the subsequent increase of patient abuse in
medical care offices. It is about preventing and reducing the risks, errors and harms that patients
face when arranging medical services. The essence of relentless development control is to get rid
of mistakes and unpredictable opportunities.
1.Privacy risk: This risk involves with the issue of leaking the personal information of the patient
by didn't work on the security statement here the information of the patient can be leaked in the
formation of any documentation process which will be again the problem of an patient by not
take care of the personal information of patient .
2.Facility management: In an healthcare industry the main aspect is to provides the facilities
which relates with the hospital regarding the patient hygiene, the risk involves in that if the
hospital will not regularly maintain the factor of cleanliness in the hospital this will leads top
spread of germs and illness in the hospital.

Information and its use: To support consistency in welfare practices, it is important that
executives remember leaders and employees to change dynamic cycles and conduct regular
authoritative implementation reviews. Routine inspections provide a unique indication of
whether a society has achieved its planned results. In addition, operators can use this data to
change different ranking arrangements.
1.2. Risks and action
Risk Action that can be taken to reduce risk
Risk 1 – Lack of first aid experience
Risk 2 – Unmanned reception desk
Risk 3 –No hand washing resources available
Risk 4 – Dealing independently with a
difficult patient
Providing proper training of first aid.
To reduce this risk; an automated digital
machine which can solve common query of
visitors can be install.
Hiring responsible person to supervise
cleanliness, hygiene and important stuff at
toilet.
Hiring security guard or hospital
superintendent can reduce this risk.

1.3 Key legislation
Key legislation Purpose within the health sector
1. Health and Safety at Work
Act 1974
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 states bosses are
answerable for ensuring the wellbeing of their representatives
at work, by forestalling possible perils in the working
environment. It places general obligations on businesses to
guarantee the wellbeing, security and government assistance,
everything being equal, while at work. It additionally puts
Health and Safety obligations on the occupiers of structures,
contractual workers, makers and representatives to guarantee
their own security in the work environment, alongside that of
their partners. Adherence to this law is fundamental to
legitimate Health and Safety in the working environment. It
is likewise the critical bit of enactment utilized in criminal
indictments. This is the principal bit of Health and Safety
Law that other enactment expands upon.
2. Health and Safety
Information for Employees
Regulations 1989
Employers must ensure that information relating to health,
safety and welfare is given to employees through the Health
and Safety Law Poster.
3. Safety Representatives
and Safety Committees
Regulations 1977
Details the requirements for the appointment and consultation
with Trades Union Safety Representative and the
establishment of Health and Safety Committees where
requested.
4. Management of Health
and Safety at Work
Regulations 1999
Expect bosses to evaluate the Health and Safety dangers to
representatives and other people who might be influenced by
work exercises. Courses of action should be made for the
successful arranging, association, control, checking and audit
of preventive and defensive measures. Workers should be
educated regarding defensive measures and the business