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Health and Safety in the HSC Workplace

   

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Health and Safety in the Health andSocial Care Workplace

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Policies And Procedures for communicating information...............................................11.2 Responsibilities for managing the health and safety........................................................21.3 Health and Safety priorities..............................................................................................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Care planning for individuals and organizational decision making.................................32.2 Impact of any one aspect on social care practice...........................................................42.3 Dilemmas encountered in implementing systems and policies for health and safety......42.4 Effects of non compliance with health and safety legislation in Northfolk nursing home5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................53.1 How health and safety practices can be monitored..........................................................53.2 Effectiveness of health and safety policies in the Northfolk nursing home.....................63.3 Evaluation of own contribution of placing health and safety measures...........................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONHealth ans safety is considered as a very essential tool in every workplace. In health andsocial workplace, it is the responsibilities of the authorities to make use of all the policies andprocedures in order to provide proper care and support to the patients (Carpenter and et.al,2017). A healthy and safe environment can help in making the system better and also can help inachieving the targets at much faster rates. The report is about the Northfolk nursing home inwhich a resident, Patrick is suffering from early stage dementia, so it includes theimplementation of the health and safety legislation along with the risk assessment factors. TASK 11.1 Policies And Procedures for communicating informationThere are enormous policies and procedures that can help in getting proper data andinformation on health and safety in any health and social work place. Although there are variousacts such as the data protection act, health and safety act etc. some of them are discussed asfollowing. One of the very common and well known act is the Equality act 2010 which can beconsidered by the Northfolk nursing home (Braveman, Egerter and Williams, 2011). In this act,the nursing home has to consider the fact that everyone in a workplace are equal and no sort ofdiscrimination should be done to any of them. Whether it is about colour, race or gender,everyone including the employees, staff and patients, all are treated equal. There should be nosort of discrimination in the health care and nursing workplace as well. There are efficient rulesfor this act as any one failing to do so can be charged huge penalties as the involved person mayhave to give a huge penalty and along with it, they may get suspend for a specific period of timedepending on their involvement in the act (Clougherty, Souza and Cullen, 2010). Another policyis the health and safety act in which it says that it is the responsibility of the Northfolk nursinghome to take proper care of Patrick as he is suffering from early dementia. AS by the staff, hehas been provided a Zimmer frame for mobility but he is not comfortable with that and also getssometimes very aggressive. The nursing home should consider the fact that as he is already ill,his mental condition must be not well as well. So, in that case, they should provide him someother supporting material. In that case, may be he will feel comfortable enough and it will alsohelp him in getting better earlier. 1

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