Health and Safety in HSC : Assignment
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Health and Safety in HSC : Assignment
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ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Systems, policies and processes for communicating information on health and safety inHSC workplace.......................................................................................................................11.2 Responsibilities of health and social care workplace for managing health and safety....23.3 Own contribution in placing the health and safety needs of people at the centre of practice................................................................................................................................................4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................61.3 Health and safety priorities which are required for a specific health and social careworkplace...............................................................................................................................62.4 Effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation in a health and social careworkplace...............................................................................................................................72.2 Impact of any one aspect of health and safety policy on health and social care practice andits customers...........................................................................................................................83.1 How policies and practices of health and safety are monitored and reviewed...............102.1 Information informs care planning for individuals and business decisions making aboutpolicies and procedures........................................................................................................10TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................142.3 Dilemmas encountered in relation to applying systems and policies for health, safety andsecurity may be addressed....................................................................................................143.2 Effectiveness of health and safety policies and practices for promotion healthy and safeculture...................................................................................................................................15CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
INTRODUCTIONIn present time, all business enterprises do not establish to only earn money, theyestablish to provide various benefits to their customer, employees, shareholders and some otherstakeholders. They have to make sure that their employees work in a safe and secure workplace.In present scenario, there are various legislations which has been introduced by UK governmentregarding health and safety, which force health and social care companies to keep safetymeasures within their workplace, for their workers so that they will not get harm while operatingbusiness activities and practices (Christophorou, 2013). This project report is focused on different case studies. In this report, different health andsafety legislations has been evaluated which are mandatory to follow by all health and social careorganisations. Also, some ways have been determined in which health and safety requirementsimpact on customers and work of practitioners in the health and social care workplace. At last,monitoring and safety of health and safety has been evaluated in health and social care workplace. TASK 11.1 Systems, policies and processes for communicating information on health and safety in HSCworkplaceThe organisation where I am working is Respite care home. There are various systems,policies and procedures which is adopted by organisations so that they can communicaterequired data or information to their employees. In order to create good culture andenvironment, business enterprise should set some standardised rules and regulations within itswork place (Hohnen and Hasle, 2011). There are number of activities or systems through mycompany can communicate important information to its employees. Care planning gives suretythat a successful strategy has been implemented within work place. It is highly important formanagers to developed infrastructure and business functions according to care planning whichthey have been conducted. By following an appropriate structure or plans I easily increase thesafety and security level for people. It also encourages health and social care company to complywith legislations. There are various dilemmas, which I have faced, that have negatively impactedcommunication channels. But with the help of risk assessments those dilemmas can be removed1
from work place (Shackley, and et. al., 2012). First is related to management of health andsafety, there are various policies and procedures which is followed by NHS to manage health andsafety within its work place. Also, those policies provide clear cut instructions to people abouthealth and safety measures. Second is regarding personal and organisational practice, Nationalhealth service is one of the leading HSC company which follows various guidelines so that itdoes not have to deal with any hindrance and discrimination while communicating informationto people. Third is related to use of various type of tools.There are various types of tolls such ase-mails, letters, seminars and conferences through which health and social care organisation cancommunicate important information to its stakeholders such as employee, customer and so on. Four and final one is regarding monitoring and reviewing, health and social careorganisations should monitor and review all the techniques and tools which are used by them forcommunicating. By doing this, they can remove all the problems which creates problem incommunication (Granerud and Rocha, 2011). Apart from this, there are some most importantlegislation which should be followed by Respite care home. Health and safety at work act 1974: It covers various issues like work place safety,welfare and health across various sector. According to this act, employers are obliged to providehealth and safety work place so that employees and patients of care home will safe and secure.Administration of safety and health at work regulations 1992 states that health and social careorganisation should use risk assessments so that all the risks can be identified and can beremoved in most effective manner. 1.2 Responsibilities of health and social care workplace for managing health and safetyBy creating safe and secure environment, organisation should clarify risk, safety/security,minimum risk, zero risk, hazard, accident prevention and so on. For improving awareness andreducing risk in my organisation i.e. Respite care home I clearly stated different terms to theemployees and visitors of the organisation, like risk is potential threat, zero risk means no riskpresent in environment, accident prevention is precautionary steps taken to avoid any situation,first aid is a kit that is used to treat patient. Risk management is significant for Respite carehome. In order to create safe and sound environment, health and social care organisation shouldmanage all the risks which can affect their work place (Wang and et al., 2011). It is hugeresponsibility of managers to assess all those factors which needs for formulating riskmanagement policy. Hazard treatment is related to the case of any accident, it is highly important2
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