Health and Safety in Health and Social Care: A Comprehensive Analysis

Health and Safety
Unit - 3

Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................................3
Task 1............................................................................................................................................. 4
1.1 - Reviewing systems, policies and procedures for communicating information on health
and safety in the health and social care workplace in accordance with legislative
requirements............................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 - Assessing the responsibilities in a specific health and social care workplace for the
management of health and safety in relation to organizational structures...............................6
1.3 – Analyzing the health and safety priorities appropriate for a specific health and social
care workplace...........................................................................................................................8
Task 2............................................................................................................................................. 9
2.1 - Information from risk assessment informs care planning for individuals and organization
decision making about policies and procedures........................................................................9
2.2: Impact of healthcare practices on the individual..............................................................11
2.3: Addressing of the dilemma encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies
for health, safety and security.................................................................................................13
2.4: Effects of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.............................................0
Task 3............................................................................................................................................. 2
3.1 – Explaining how health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed....2
3.2 - Analyzing the effectiveness of health and safety policies and practices in the workplace
in promoting a positive healthy and safe culture......................................................................4
3.3 – Evaluating own contribution to placing the health and safety needs of individuals at the
centre of practice.......................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................... 7
References..................................................................................................................................... 8

Introduction
There are many acts that can be applied in the health and social care departments for the
health and safety purpose. One of which is “health and social act, 2012”. Under this act, the
employees that are working in the health and social care’s organizations need to be more
innovative, productive and accountable. This all need to be in terms of delivering various
services like the NHS, Adult social care along with the Public health outcomes. Here the main
focus is on the managers of the health and social care group to be innovative in terms of
delivering services. Quantity, safety and experiences of the patients are the major health
outcomes that are monitored by the managers of the group. Here the case study of Fleetwood
Hall Home has been taken into consideration for completing various tasks. According to the
CQC report, there is a need for urgent changes in the home care.

Task 1
1.1 - Reviewing systems, policies and procedures for communicating
information on health and safety in the health and social care workplace in
accordance with legislative requirements
The need of a proper health and safety legislature has been identified at the workplace of
Fleetwood Hall Home. This is because according to the CQC report, the health care is not in a
good condition can need a lot of changes in its working. Legislation related to the health and
safety is also required for the implementation of various policies, systems and procedures that
can be helpful in ensuring the god will at the workplace.
The policies related to the health and safety legislation as well as ethics are very important at
the Fleetwood Hall Home (Cox, 2014). Entire staffs, patients, visitors and employees of the hall
house need to have a good knowledge about the policies and systems that are used at the
workplace for ensuring safety, health and security of all of them. The hall home can only work
in an effective manner, only if the employees’ and patients’ safety are strong at the workplace,
otherwise there would be a great difficulty in communicating the information (Moss, 2017).
The structure of the Fleetwood Hall Home (FHH) is not in an effective way in the year 2015, as
the patients and even the employees of the hall are not feeling safe at the workplace. And
there are many incidents that can prove that the health and safety at the FHH are not effective.
So, after the CQC report and analysis, it has been recommended to the FHH to emerge the laws
and policies with of the health and safety needs of the business' value. This will ensure that
miss-happenings are avoided at the workplace and the employees and patients will not suffer
at any cost (Frydman, 2013).
There are various policies which have been designed to communicate the information on this
legislature and they are followed by the employees of the FHH at their workplace. The FHH has
been designed many of the information systems through which the employees and patients can
easily communicate their problems with the CQC’s registered managers. For example, it has

been told by a woman that they are not feeling safe in the workplace and finding difficulties in
sharing same toilets and rooms with the male patients.

1.2 - Assessing the responsibilities in a specific health and social care
workplace for the management of health and safety in relation to
organizational structures
Following are some of the major responsibilities of the FHH in maintaining and managing the
health and safety factors at the workplace and all of them are in the context with its
organizational structure, these responsibilities are maintained by the senior managers of the
hall home:
Honesty with the patient and maintaining trust: it is the dusty of the senior management
group to ensure that the illness and the projected treatment need to be completely known by
the services users of the hall house. In case of the treatment failure, adverse effects can be
observed in the workplace and the trusts of the services users are also broken. The CQC
registered manager at the FHH is maintaining a record of absolute sincerity of the employees’
working at the workplace, which is helpful in removing the dishonesty with the patients and
ensure trust (Gostin and Wiley, 2016).
Professional competence and responsibilities: as per the CQC report, the service users of the
FHH need to respect their duties and develop the care for patients which come under their
primary responsibilities. If the service users of the FHH are participating in the self-regulation
processes at the workplace, then they will respect their professional duties and they will also
understand the importance of their roles and responsibilities (Edelman et al., 2017).
Maintaining a code of ethics: all the professionals and the medical experts of all the three
sectors, need to possess their ethical codes and maintain these codes properly at their working.
An emphasis is also given to improve the quality of care that is given to the patients as they are
not feeling safe and secure (Hayton, 2012).