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Study on Health and Safety

   

Added on  2019-12-03

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HEALTH AND SAFETY

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3TASK 2 ..........................................................................................................................................31.3 Identifying health and safety priorities for risk assessment of Ted Jenkins .........................32.1 Analyzing how information from risk assessment informs about care planning .................4TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................52.2 Analyzing the impact of hand hygiene policy ......................................................................53.2 Analyzing effectiveness of policy in promoting a positive, health and safe culture ............62.4 Analyzing the effect of non compliance with legislation ....................................................63.1 Explanation of how health and safety policies are monitored and reviewed .......................7TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................82.3 Discussion on how dilemmas can be encountered ................................................................83.3 Evaluating how the health and safety needs of Faith are kept at center of practice .............91.3 Analyzing the benefits of following a person centered approach with Faith .......................9CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................102

INTRODUCTION Health and safety is considered as vital aspect in the Health and social care (HSC) sector.It is important in HSC as it supports in providing care by integration of health and social careservices. Like every organization, health and social care setting has to look after the health andsafety of staff, service users and all the others who are associated directly and indirectly with theorganization (Bowen, Privitera and Bowie, 2011). As health care organization has theresponsibility of improving the health of its patients, it is extremely important to implementprocedures and system for providing safety to the service users (Flynn, Eggerth and Jacobson,2015). The present report is prepared to cover the health and safety aspects at a new adult daycare centre called Graceland. The organization addresses the health and social care needs ofolder adults with dementia and Alzheimers disease. In the report, an understanding will bedeveloped with respect to continually monitoring the implementation of health and safetylegislation and policies within the organization. Implications of relevant legislation will be done.Further, the report will assess the importance of record keeping, monitoring and reviewing ofhealth and safety procedures. TASK 1 1.1 reviewing systems, policies and procedures for communicating information on health andsafety in accordance with legislative requirement3

Brief explanation of legislationLegislation is defined as a process or act of making laws and enacted by governing body. Lawsare rules and norms which are regulated by authorirty for meeting various purposes. It isimprotnat as it helps to serve the purposes such as setting stnadards and controls. They arereferred to as statutory laws. These are importhnat instruments which protectecting rights andresponsibilities of an individual.Systems, policies and procedures for communicatinginformation on health and safety in the day care center can be reviewed. These are in accordancewith various legislations which have been explained below:Main health and safety legislation in the uk1: health records and information privacy act, 2002 -As per this legislation, it is mandatory forthe day care center to keep the information pertaining to patients in a private manner. This actalso provides an accessible framework with the help of which complaints and conflicts in thearea of communication of information can be resolved.The systems, policies and procedures for communicating information at graceland should beaccording to this act. Data protection act 1998 -the processing of personal data, which is held in manual or electronicform, is regulated by this act. Along with the health records, this act also applies to the personalinformation. This act requires graceland to comply with eight data protection principles andobserving the rights of the patients. The medical information of a patient can only be obtainedfor one or more specified and lawful purpose. The medical information pertaining to the patientsshall not be kept for longer than necessary. The personal data related to patients should beprocessed and communicated in a lawful mannerLaw about communicating health and safety in the workplace - The laws regardingcommunicating health and safety at workplace sets out the ways in which employees mustconsult in different work situations. The significance of communicating respective laws atworkplace is to:To aware about various measures that supports health and safety at work to all membersTo monitor effectiveness of measures to be taken1.2 Identifying communication methods used to inform about health and safety4

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