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....................................................................................................................4
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...................................................................................................................................16
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.............................17
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.
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.
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.