Health and Safety in Health and Social Care Workplace

This report discusses the importance of health and safety in the health and social care workplace, including various legislations and procedures. It also explores the role and responsibilities of stakeholders and the impact of non-compliance with health and safety legislations.

Health and Safety

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1: ESSAY.............................................................................................................................1
Introduction.................................................................................................................................1
Main Body...................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
1.3 Priorities appropriate for a health and social care workplace..............................................4
2.4 Impact of non compliance with health and safety legislations.............................................5
2.2 Impact of aspect of health and safety policy on practices of health and social care.............5
3.1 Monitor and review of various policies and practices of health and safety..........................6
2.1 Risk assessment informs care planning for decision making of individuals and
organisations...............................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
2.3 Dilemmas encountered during implementation of system and policies for health and
safety:..........................................................................................................................................9
3.2 Effectiveness of health and safety policies in workplace:..................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Under health and social care, health and safety is an crucial consideration for entire
practitioners. The importance of consistent monitoring the execution of health and safety
legislation and polices for health and social care workplace has been elaborated under this report.
In this particular report, various legislations and the procedures followed in practices of health
and social care services to maintain good health and safety at workplace area discussed. This also
enlist various ethical practices which are followed during carrying out various care activities in
workplace to provide better services to client.
TASK 1: ESSAY
Introduction
In this particular essay various legislations and the procedures followed in practices of
health and social care services to maintain good health and safety at workplace area discussed.
This also enlist various codes of practices which should be followed in NHS during carrying out
various care activities in workplace to provide better services to client.
Main Body
Policies and procedures in maintaining health and safety in social care organisation
premises: There are many policies and procedure defined in the country legislation in order to
ensure health and safety in workplace. This is very much important for NHS that they follow all
the required laws related with health and safety in practices of the social care services for
maintaining safe environment for workforce as well as the service users. As working in NHS I
also contribute a lot in ensure health and safety of patients. This is the sector which is working
providing healthy life to their client and people of society. It is my responsibility to maintain safe
surrounding in working premises to provide satisfactory services to people (Lee, Mahendra and
Alvarez, 2010). The various legislation like Health and safety at work act defines different
provision that restricts the practices which may negatively effect safety of an individual.
The country government has provided various regulations and code of practices in
relation with health and safety in order to ensure safety and protective environment in services of
social care. The Food act defined every health and safety care home such as NHS should ensure
cleanliness in food preparation area, maintain hygiene in workplace and provide healthy food the
patient in order to help them in faster recovery from disease. The Data protection act 1998
provide a right to the service user to take an appropriate actions fro securing their personal
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information and secure his dignity while availing services of health and social scare groups
(Wilks, Stephen and Moore, 2013). This law ensures that the care workers are bound by laws not
to share confidential information of the client related with his personal data, sexual issues,
physical life or about any criminal records with another person. While RIDDOR is the code of
practices which provides a procedures and provisions to the Reporting Of Injuries, Disease and
Dangerous Occurrence regulation (2013). This is providing authority to report various workplace
incidents related with disease or dangerous occurrences in work premises. COSHH describes
about various Code of practice which stands for Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health.
NHS are using hazardous substances in workplace which negatively affect the safety and health
of the individual working with firm or the services user like Chemicals, Fumes, Dust etc. which
have to be controlled in appropriate manner in workplace (Katz, 2010). The government also
defined proper manual of moving and handling substances in order to maintaining safe working
environment. This defines various practices to carry out activities related with transportation of
objects in appropriate manner. So, there are some laws and procedures should be implemented in
the NHS culture strictly to maintain healthy and safe working environment.
Role and responsibilities of various stakeholders in maintaining health and safety in
workplace: The various stakeholders in NHS are arranged at different level of hierarchy in
organisational structure. All people related with health and social care firm are given with
different set of roles and responsibilities which they have to follow up in their working to
maintaining health and safety inn work premises.
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The directors, higher management are potential at higher level of hierarchy in stricture of
NHS while care workers are placed at lower level which are following up polices defined by the
higher executives of firm in practices. So, the responsibility of employer in maintaining health
and safety at workplace of social care services are like the management should be responsibly
actives in implementing all the code of practices defined by government like COSHH, RIDDOR.
The people should be responsibly in ensure safety at workplace also keeping workers away from
risk of harassment and other unethical activities. While the worker are the responsible person for
applying the defined policies by higher management in practice. So, the worker should have
information related with taking different safety measures while working with machines or
dealing with patient of services user suffering from dangerous disease. The individual should
take proper precautions like wearing gloves, mouth mask while operating with contagious
illness.
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Illustration 1: Organisational structure of health and social
care, 2014
Source 1: Working in the Health and Social care Sector. 2014

Contribution of health care worker in maintaining health and safety of service user:
As a social health care worker I should responsibly activating in following all the provision
related with health and safety of myself and also of my client and people is working with. While
dealing with a my current services user who is suffering from mental illness and living in a old
home in city with his pet. So, there is various risk factor to health and safety of my client i.e.
there is huge chances of getting infection from his pet. There is also risk of injuries and manages
due to old conditions of furniture and home. So, while dealing with any moving and handling
object practices I have to take proper acre of me and my services user safety. While I should also
take care that pet is should given bath every day to reduce risk of infection. I should also
maintain a proper care plan to assist the mental illness of person and provide him proper
medicine on time and motivate him to carry some important psychic health building exercises to
recover faster from illness.
Conclusion
This can be concluded that I face many risks during responsibly accomplishing my duties
towards the service user. I accessed large number of risk during my my working in health and
social care services. The various risk like getting infection from others, developing contagious
disease or getting injured while moving or handling different objects from one place to other
place,s there is also high risk from various hazardous chemical used in social care practices. I
should be also effectively involved in accessing various risk related to the client with whom I am
dealing in order to maintain his safety and health appropriately while providing care services to
him.
TASK 2
1.3 Priorities appropriate for a health and social care workplace
To offer effective services related with health and safety of patients, it is very essential
for various institutions to maintain some priorities. In case of respite care home, it is important
for firm to set priorities so the care home can offer effective and better services to its patients.
For this there is a sequence of steps which can be follow by respite care home:
It is very essential and important for care home to ensure proper maintenance of all
electric equipments and all must be properly use by staff members during offer medical
treatment and services to all patients. Further, firm can use cameras in order to reduce the
chances of any incident and a system called door lock can also used by company. Along with
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this, by maintain proper temperature and facility of ventilation safety and security of patients can
be ensured. Safety measures of health and social cares homes must be checked on continuous
basis.
Training of staff members should be set on priority as these are the one who offer service
and medical treatment to patients. With help of these programs employees will learn new skills
and better ways to serve a customers (Barker and Nussbaum, 2011). It is very essential that
employees should treat and interact with patients in a friendly manner further workers should
have detailed information about various medical services offered to patients. Managers should
identify every aspect which contribute in make the workplace more positive and ensure delivery
of effective medical treatment to all patients (Ross and et. al., 2012). Overall the main factors
which must be set on priority by health and safety care homes is that proper training must be
offer to all workers and staff members, there should be facility of cameras, door locks at
workplace and proper maintenance of proper temperature.
2.4 Impact of non compliance with health and safety legislations
If enterprise did not follow the compliance as per the various legislation of health and
safety then this create and give rise to number of harmful effects which can be better understood
by following:
 There will be no clarity of roles and responsibilities of employees working under the
setting of health and social care. This give rise to unnecessary fights and conflicts among
workers and this create unnecessary delays in serve a patients.
 Financial implications of non compliance is that it decrease the profits of enterprise.
Increase number of conflicts and confusion decrease morale of employees and hamper
the quality of services offer to final customers.
 When health and social care homes did not follow the compliance then this spoil the
entire function of purpose of health and social care.
 Lack of proper compliance of procedures, policies and systems create risks, dilemmas
and problems at workplace.
2.2 Impact of aspect of health and safety policy on practices of health and social care
To maintain the effectiveness of various services and treatment offer to patients it is very
essential for manager to provide provide training to all members of staff. This will enhance both
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skills and knowledge of employees. Various policies are there which can be applied by managers
of health and safety care homes at workplace to ensure systematic implementation of various
operations. Such kinds of policies are:
Health and Safety Regulation 1981: As per the regulation, company must have the first aid
equipment, trained first must demonstrates in the health and social care workplace and
employees are required to aware about the first aid arrangement.
Food and safety Act 1990: This includes the service of food, making and storage and needs of
registration for food whether they operate for profits of not (Dėjus and Antuchevičienė, 2013).
Canteens, clubs and care homes are covered in a food business. As per this, legislations to the
local authorities are accountable for enforcement via environmental health and trading standards.
3.1 Monitor and review of various policies and practices of health and safety
In order to monitor the health and safety policies, there is a need to have effective
management policies. Responsibilities of the management does not finish only by applying the
health and safety policies but there is a need to review them carefully so that the no organisation
can face any kind of difficulties or prosecution in terms of non-compliance health and safety
legislation in an effective manner (Idris and Dollard, 2011). To monitor the health and safety
legislation and policies, the respite care home manager does not implement the health and safety
measure or policies as per the requirement, and further the management did not comply
warming's on health and safety. This is required to be done effectively by implementing
monitoring policies. However, the monitoring can be done by using: audit of risk, review of
practices, learning from practices. these are the best tool for monitoring and reviewing the health
and safety policies which are used by the firm.
2.1 Risk assessment informs care planning for decision making of individuals and organisations
Management is risk is the technique for pursuit information to recognise the particular
risk in person based on behaviour, age, diseases situation, weigh etc. This is an assumed danger
data table which have altered the organisation's decision making process (Salvendy, 2012).
Respite
Care
S. NO. What are
the risk?
Who might
be injured
What are
you already
Assessment
Activity by
Activity by Accomplis
hed : where
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and how? doing? Whom? When? + How
1 Visitors
and
Staff
may be
bruised
if they
slip
over
physical
object
or trip
on
spill
The
company
carry
out
effective
and good
housekeepe
r. Entire
region are
properly lit
involving
stairs.
There are
less leads
following
or
cables.
Staff
manage the
areas of
work
maintained.
Low risk All
members of
staff
including
manager
and
superiors.
20/11/17 Entire
rooms,
corridors in
the Respite
Home care
which have
been
checked by
manager on
20/11/17 .
2 Unguarded
machinery
and
electronic
equipments
can harm
the people
The
organisation
have
provided
guidelines
for the
individual
Medium
risk
All nurse
and workers
20/11/17 Entire
equipments
have been
provided a
notice of
caution and
all
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or patients
of which is
harm the
person
intensely.
or
consumers
to manage
the issues
also aware
the staff to
stay keep an
eye of
clients.
switchboard
and electric
current
instruments
have been
covered.
20/11/17
3 Edges of
furniture of
sharp
objects can
injure the
clients or
patients that
is needed to
be
managed.
The
company
have
guarded the
shape
objects with
some extra
tip so that
consumer
can not be
harmed.
Also those
equipments
which
needed to
be in same
condition
have been
put far from
patients.
Medium
Risk
Care
Workers
20/11/17 Entire
furniture
have been
managed
and sharp
objects will
be kept
away from
client.
20/11/17
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This table is highly important for preparing a plan for organisation decision making and
individual as this process is generally underpinned through data which has been collected and
shared.
This policy is based on the decision making for company and individuals. The
information informed the organisation or individuals in assisting and assuming the probable risk
which can restraint the growth and development of organisation as well as create a bad
reputation in the society (Marucheck and et. al., 2011). These changes and varies the decision
making of care home.
Risk assessment covers:
 This is determined as risk control.
 This is applied as per the modern industries HSEC process controlling HSEC risk.
 Personnel are needed to review and modified the JSA.
 To guarantee that entire risks are controlled and managed.
 Any residual risk is mitigated to as reasonably practicable.
Henceforth, information gaining from risk assessment could be beneficial for the individual care
planning and the firm's decision-making about the legislations and policies. Such benefactions
are mentioned hereunder:
Individual care planning context:
 To recognise about various care services of diverse health and social care institutions.
 To stimulate the services of health and social care firms.
 To recognise about the better health and social care providers.
 To recognise an effective way of getting health and social care services,
 at the end, an individual could take his decision about health and social care services by
information from risk assessment.
TASK 3
2.3 Dilemmas encountered during implementation of system and policies for health and safety:
UK have some health and safety as well as security legislation which help an organisation is
solving dilemma. Dilemma refer to the condition in which a complication situation have to face
by someone and they have to make the difficult decision. Here are some types of dilemmas:
 Self and others risk-benefit
 Resource implications
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 Rights to user of service as well as consequences of safety
 Differing stakeholder priorities
When executing the camerawork and policies of security, safety and health, each and
every organisation have to face dilemma cause of diversity in the interests and opinions of
people (Demerouti and Bakker, 2011). In the given case, Mr. Sam is 45 years old under the
Mental capacity Act 2005. he is suffering from mania and have not been on roadside from past
few years. Now he wants to buy a newspaper. Here is the productive solution or relations p0f
policies or system (Demerouti and Bakker, 2011). Th metal capacity act was passed by
parliament in 2005 applied on Wales and England, According to this act, there is a legal structure
for making decision and acting on the behalf of those adults who is suffering from lack of mental
capacity. In respected case, care worker can make the decision which would be good for Mr.
Sam as well as compete his wish. He can assists Sam and go along with for the purchase, This is
how provider can guide him and Mr. Sam would feel good.
3.2 Effectiveness of health and safety policies in workplace:
In an business organisation, if managers are implemented various health and safety
practices then they can easily achieve their goals and objectives in a certain time period. Along
with this, health and social care practices are helpful in managing an ethical and positive working
environment in which employees can perform in effectively. Implementation of health and safety
policy is vital part and realistic move in order to deliver pervasive atmosphere which prevent
employees from any kind of harm or injury. It should combines all actions in order to sort out as
well as regulate safety matter. If an organisation will be worked in ethical manner then it could
improves its reliability and goodwill in target market. Health and safety policies are also helpful
in assessing future risk posed through their activities. It is the duty of health care providers to use
report to their employer by measuring the effectiveness of policies whether it is safe or unsafe for
working environment (World Health Organization, 2013). Strong H & S practices are also
assistive in implementing positive and friendly relations at workplace so as to gain better
outcomes in a certain time period. Furthermore, it is also assistive in finding out common
injuries and accidents for enhancing the information on prevention and generate awareness
among people as they work properly.
Below described are some major benefits of health and safety policies: -
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 Enrolment of service workers in order to get right staff.
 Provides security at workplace.
 Premises prevent business organisation.
 Safe surroundings to patients as they can attain and retain for long term period.
 Job narratives allows employees as they can be acquainted within their boundaries.
 Defensive outfits and protection equipments provided.
 Suitable locations.
 Practices procedures and policies frequently revised
 It is considered with personal relations and economic concern.
 Find out all issues and problems which are related with specific area.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, this can be concluded that organisation are facing
many risks during responsibly accomplishing my duties towards the service user. It has been
accessed large number of risk during my my working in health and social care services. The
various risk like getting infection from others, developing contagious disease or getting injured
while moving or handling different objects from one place to other place, there is also high risk
from various hazardous chemical used in social care practices. It should be also effectively
involved in accessing various risk related to the client with whom managers are dealing in order
to maintain his safety and health appropriately while providing care services to him.
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