Health and Safety at Workplace

This presentation provides an overview of health and safety at the workplace, including the policies and procedures, responsibilities for management, and the organization setting. It also discusses health and safety priorities and risk assessment for a specific case. The presentation concludes with information on placing health and safety needs and providing care for a specific individual. Find more study material and solved assignments on Desklib.

Health and safety at
workplace
TASK 1

Introduction
 Northfolk Nursing Home is a care centre where efficient
health and social care services are provided to people with
different requirements.
 Care Quality Commission is the governing body that
devises and formulates rules and regulations for health
and social care organisations to follow.

1.1 Review of systems, policies and procedure
 The policy implemented by Care Quality Commission in
Northfolk Nursing Home is Health and Safety at Work Act
1974.
The basic requirements of this legislation include:
 Working environment and main plant should be secure in
operation.

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 Usage and storage of dangerous substances should be
secure and well handled.
 Specialised training must be provided to staff members
for ensuring health and safety.
 Proper facilitation of service users in terms of welfare
provided by staff members at workplace.

1.2 Responsibilities for management
 Prime duty of service givers include proper compliance to
safety rules and regulations.
 Workers are bound to perform ethical practises in the
organisation.
 Manager has to supervise and monitor entire working
structure with proper scheduling of daily operations.

 Owner/ Organisation head
 Senior Manager
 Manager
 Assistant manager
 Department supervisor(s)
 Senior workers
 Care workers, Hygiene staff, Ground operations staff
 Trainees, new recruits, interns
Organisation setting

1.3 Health and safety priorities
Northfolk Nursing Care Home can have following health and
safety priorities:
 Better control over health and hygiene of service providers
and takers.
 Efficient options for enhancing mobility of individuals inside
and outside the nursing centre.

Risk Assessment for Patrick

2.1 Information from risk assessments
Risk assessment
Risk assessment is the systematic process which evaluates
the potential risk which involved in activities that are
undertaking. It is the term which describes the overall
process and method to identify risk and hazards from the
workplace. Hence, analysis and evaluation the risk
associated with hazard. Beside this, it also creates
careful examination of risk to attain results.

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Care planning
Care plan is a means of communicating and organizing the action
of constantly changing nursing staff. According to patients
needs, employee services are attended to system in which they
provide care to people. Further, the plan is passed to nursing
staff which can change shift during different round. Care plans
helps teach documentation which are requires for delivering
effective information at workplace.

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Controlling of risk: It is very important to handle situation
through assess controlling risk element. In this aspect, care
taker of Patrick need to ascertain risk element from workplace.
Response to manage risk: To get response towards the health and
care issues, it is essential to develop effective results through
response towards risk element. Hence, risk can be eliminate
easily to get results at workplace. In this aspect, it is essential
to create plan to take care for Patrick.

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Patrick is suffers from dementia so that risk is very high because
policies could be managed on the basis of controlling activity
and procedure. In this aspect, he is unable to move themselves
anywhere. As results, every time care taker are requires
developing solutions and outcomes within the environment.
High risk assessment take place in this situation so that
managing and controlling is requires to procedures which can
be support to determines findings at workplace. Hence, we had
planned to develop solutions for managing there results
through ascertain risk at workplace.

3.3 Placing health and safety needs
Mr Patrick is suffers from Dementia so that they have problem to
hear properly and understand to things sometimes. In addition
to this, they are also serves Osteoarthritis in both knees which
create effect his ability to do any work. Recently he is suffers
from falling when moving around home and it creates problem
to mobility any things. Hence, there are a lot safety needs
requires for him at workplace by care taker.

Care take for Mr. Patrick
They have to take following elements within dealing with Mr.
Patrick:
Behaviour and health care advice:
In order to communicates with people, it is essential to
communicate with people for developing solution regarding
problems. Care taker need to speak fluently and understand
person with their emotions. In addition to this, they have to
lose normal social conventions of conversation which can be
ignore through saying or interrupt people.

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How to manage eating and nutrition needs
If someone belongs to dementia, there is eating and drinking
habits need to be monitor carefully. This is because, due to
this reason Mr. Patrick can forget to eat and drink. In addition
to this, they can also face difficulties to chew and swallow.
There are few things through care taker can manage results
through treating cause of appetite loss, such as acute illness,
depression and denture pain.

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How to manage their continence needs
Due to dementia, mental functions decline and it creates negative impact on results. This is
because, it can control functions which depends on being aware regarding sensations and
feelings of full bladder and memory of how, when and where it can be respond.

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How to manage sleeping habits
Patrick is suffers from dementia which can be create confusing between day and night so that he is
unable to sleeping properly. They are facing difficulties during these time. Hence, sleeping
habits needs to be considers as follows:
Changes in their brain biological clock
Medical conditions
Side effects of medication
Depression
Urinary tract infections which causing frequent need for toileting
Sleep apnoea

References
• Books and Journals
Rees, S., Payne, J. and Houlahan, B., 2015. Creating a culture for publication through education and mentoring. Journal of nursing
care quality. 30(2). pp.187-192.
Lachman, P., Runnacles, J. and Dudley, J., 2015. Equipped: overcoming barriers to change to improve quality of care (theories of
change). Archives of disease in childhood-Education & practice edition. 100(1). pp.13-18.