Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace

This presentation discusses the importance of risk assessments in health care planning and decision making, the impact of health and safety policies on the workplace, the dilemmas faced during policy implementation, and the effectiveness of health and safety policies. It also explores the consequences of non-compliance with legislation. Find study material and solved assignments on Desklib.

Health and safety in the health
and social care workplace

2.1 Information from risk
assessments help in health care
planning and decision making
The information gained and the risk assessment of the
various operations that are been conducted at the
health and social care organisation like the cited firm
will help the firm to improve the overall quality of the
services and meet the requirements of the clients in a
better way (Siegel and et.al., 2015). Some major
impact of the various operations that are been taken
into the consideration are as follows:

The Disability Act 2005
The Disability Act 2005 will help the health and social
care organisation to meet the requirements of the
general as well as the people with disability and fulfil
them in a better way. This will help the cited firm to
decide and develop a better work policy and plan a
suitable strategy to meet the requirements of the
people with disability.

Health and Safety at Work etc Act
1974
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 helps the
organisation to meet the requirements of the clients in
a better way. This will help the organisation to meet
the requirements of the clients and employee's at the
work place. Besides this, they will help the
organisation to plan the future procedures and the
operations in a better and sustainable way (Terry and
et.al., 2015).

2.2 Impact of one aspect of the
health and safety policy on
health and safety policy
The Health and Safety Policy that is been undertaken by
the company will help the company to improve the
productivity and meet the quality of the operations that
helps the company to meet its targeted goals and fulfil the
needs and the requirements of the company (Vladutiu and
et.al., 2016). The policy that is been developed by the
implementation of the legal obligations or operations such
as Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 will help the
company to meet the requirements in a better share of the
market.

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Besides this the customers of the cited firm will also be
benefited by the adoption of the health and social care
policy. They would be able to express and explain their
needs and demands in a better way. This will help the
company to understand and meet the requirements of
the customers in a better way (Siegel and et.al., 2015).
The company will decide or come up with better
products or services that will help the organisation to
improve the quality of the services in a better way.

2.3 The dilemmas faced while
implementing the systems or
policies at the work place
Various sort of the dilemmas are been faced by the cited
firm while implementing a system or the policies that are
been taken into the consideration by the company in a
better way. The dilemmas that are been faced by the
organisation are required to be handled in a better way in
order to meet the requirements of the customers in a better
way (Phillips, 2016). Some major dilemmas that are been
faced by the company are:

Risk factor in the supplying:
There is always a better risk factors that can be
undertaken by the company while implementing of
the proper system or the policy at the work place. This
may lead to the improper implementation of the
system, which may cause the failure of the system.
Thus, such dilemmas should be avoided by the
company.

Lack of the proper enforcement of
the laws:
This is too a major issue as this leads to the betterment
of the system in the company (Jeffreys, 2015). The
better implementation of the laws will create a
suitable platform for the implementation of various
systems and policies at the company.

No proper support from customers
and employee's
Many times the organisation don't get the proper
support of the customers and the employees in the
implementation of the system or policy, this should be
avoided in order to gain better idea of policies.

2.4 Effectiveness of the
health and safety policy
The health and the safety policies that are been
undertaken by the company has laid a major impact on
the operations of the company that helps the cited firm
to meet the requirements of the company. The efficient
implementation of the health and safety policy helps
the company to meet the requirements in order to gain
a better profitability and productivity. This will help
the company to promote the better share of the
healthy, positive and safe work culture in the cited
organisation (Morken, Johansen and Alsaker, 2015)

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The implemented policies' and the practices of
health and safety measures helps the company
to improve the quality of the work environment
by using various legal measures, that are been
undertaken by the company. These policies are
been regular monitored and analysed by the
management of the organisation in order to gain
the better idea of the ongoing criteria and needs
or demands of the customers or clients (Hanson
and et.al., 2015).

3.1 and 3.2 Effect of non
compliance with legislation
The non compliance of the health and safety legislation
lays a very deep impact on the operations of the
organisation, affecting the employer and the
employee's. It helps the employer of the cited firm to
take in the suitable health and safety measures in order
to improve the quality of health and safety conditions at
the workplace (Siegel and et.al., 2015). The employer
of the organisation will be made to follow the effective
legal measures of the organisation in order to gain a
better executions of the various operations that are been
undertaken by the company in order to improve the
quality of services it provides to the customers.

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Even the employee's of the organisation are required
to follow the legal obligations and the measures that
are been undertaken at the organisation (Hanson and
et.al., 2015). Proper safety measures are required to be
undertaken by the company in order to avoid any sort
of emergency or critical conditions such as illness,
damage of equipments or injuries. Proper disciplinary
action will be taken in order to safeguard the
employees at the workplace.

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