Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace

Health and Safety in the Health
and Social Care Workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
LO2..................................................................................................................................................1
2.1 Information from Risk Assessment about policies and procedures which controls the
bariatric patients..........................................................................................................................1
2.2 Impact of health and safety policy on handling the social care practices within
organisation.................................................................................................................................2
2.3 Dilemmas care workers that carry out the healthy and safety policies and procedures........3
2.4 Analyses the effect of non compliance with health and safety legislation in a health and
social care workplace..................................................................................................................3
LO3..................................................................................................................................................4
3.1 Monitoring and Review of the health and safety practices...................................................4
3.2 Evaluating the health and safety needs of the individual at the center of practices..............5
3.3 Evaluate own contributions to placing the health and safety needs of individuals at the
centre of practice.........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health and safety is one of the greatest concern of the people in the society which can be
defined as regulations or procedures intended to prevent accident or injury at workplace. This
report will be based on the Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust and in recent years, The
employers and employees of this organization have to face many problems with the slips and
strips on wet hospital floor. So the study will going to focus on the health and safety policies in
organization. It will also help in developing a system to control the Slip/trip under the RIDDOR
(Reporting of injuries and disease and dangerous occurrence of regulations) at workplace. It will
also help in assessing the responsibilities for managing heath and safety within the trust. This
document will also helps in developing a health and safety priorities for services area in which
children are treated. This will also help in developing a policies and procedures that supports and
assists the Bariatric patients. It will also develop am understanding about the care worker carry
out the practices that governs in health and safety procedures.
LO1
Covered in Poster
LO2
2.1 Information from Risk Assessment about policies and procedures which controls the
bariatric patients
Risk Assessment can be termed as the way that helps to seeks the information in order to
identify the particular risk based on a weight, habit, disease, position, vulnerability etc which can
also be determined according to the age of the patient (Adler And et.al., 2016). Here is a Risk
assessment of thebariatric patients which can be described in tabular format:
Description Very likely(Could be
able to happen any
time)
Unlikely (rarely
happens)
Very unlikely
(probably will never
happen)
Permanent disability
of Ill health
1 2 3
Long term illness or a
serious injury
1 2 3
Medical attention 2 2 3
1