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Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace : Report

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1a) Identify the systems, policies and procedures for communicating information withlegislative requirements.(1.1)......................................................................................................1b) Legal responsibilities of the management(1.2).......................................................................2c) health and safety priorities(1.3)..............................................................................................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3a) How information from risk assessments help in health care planning and decision making(2.1).............................................................................................................................................3b) Impact of one aspect of the health and safety policy on health and safety policy (2.2).........4c) Discuss the dilemmas faced while implementing the systems or policies at the workplace(2.3) ....................................................................................................................................5d) Effectiveness of the health and safety policy (2.4).................................................................5e) Effect of non compliance with legislation (3.1 and 3.2).........................................................6TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6Evaluation of the contribution in placing the health and safety needs of individuals in thecompany (3.3).............................................................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONThe health and the social care plays a very crucial and important role in the managementof various sort of operations in the society. The social well being helps the individual and thegroup of people to take the suitable measures in order to gain a better productivity that helps in abetter share of market (Adler and et.al., 2015). For the report, we have taken Acacia care homeas health and social care (HSC) organisation of context. This organisation works in the betterdevelopment of the health and social care services in UK. This report focuses on the varioussystems, policies and procedures for communicating the information of various legislativemeasure with the priorities. The dilemmas encountered are been considered and are taken inconsideration for better understanding of effects of various measures on health and social care(Blais, 2015).TASK 1a) Identify the systems, policies and procedures for communicating information with legislativerequirements.(1.1)Various systems, policies and procedures are been used in the health and social carecentre for communication of the various legislative measures at the work place. This helps thecited firm to identify and implement the suitable measures to develop a better health and safetymeasures at the workplace (Carayon, 2015). Some major legislative measures that are been takeninto the consideration by the sub committee of senior management are: Disability Act 2005: It is the legislative measure that is been taken into the considerationby the cited firm in order top gain a better idea of the health and safety measures that arebeen followed and implemented in order to provide better services to the general as wellas the public with disabilities.Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974: This legislative measure will help the citedfirm to take the suitable measures to improve the quality of the work environment at theworkplace (Carpenter and et.al., 2017). This will ensure the better implementation of thevarious safety measures at the workplace, thus causing the improvement in the workingconditions. Based on this, various policies and procedures of Risk assessments are been taken intothe consideration by the organisation in order to implement better safety and health measuressuch as adoption of various safety measures at workplace, improvement in the working1
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