Health and Safety Legislation in Health and Social Care: A Comprehensive Analysis

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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Table of Contents
Introduction-...................................................................................................................................2
Task 1A: Understand how health and safety legislation is implemented in the health and social
care workplace...............................................................................................................................4
Use your own workplace experience to support your answers. According to the case scenario,
review how you will develop procedures for communicating health and safety information [P
1.1,D1}...........................................................................................................................................4
Q2 Using a brochure format, in this section assesses the responsibilities in a specific health and
social care workplace for the management of health and safety in relation to organisational
structures. [P1.2]............................................................................................................................7
Q3: Analyze healthy and safety priorities appropriate for a specific health and social care
workplace [P1.3]............................................................................................................................9
Task- 2.........................................................................................................................................11
Introduction:.................................................................................................................................11
2.1Analyze how information from risk assessments informs care planning for individuals and
organisational decisions making about policies and procedures.................................................11
2.2 analyze the impact of one aspect of health and safety policy on health and social care
practice and its customers...........................................................................................................12
2.3 Discuss how dilemmas encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies for
health, safety and security may be addressed............................................................................12
2.4 Analyze the effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation in a health and safety
workplace.....................................................................................................................................13
Task 3: LO3 Understand the monitoring and review of health and safety in the health and social
care workplace.............................................................................................................................14
Q8 In this section you should explain how health and safety policies and practices are
monitored and reviewed in your own workplace. [P3.1]..............................................................14
Q9 you should analyse the effectiveness of health and safety policies and practices in your
health and social care workplace in promoting a positive health and safe culture. [P3.2, D2]....17
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Key Components of Safety culture..............................................................................................17
Q10 Finally, you should evaluate your own contributions to placing the health and safety needs
of individuals at the centre of your practice. Consider the issues of compliance; training;
practices; and interactions with individuals, groups and agencies. In this section you may want
to use Gibbs reflective cycle in reflecting on your own performance in helping to meet the health
and safety needs of the service users. [P3.3, D3].......................................................................18
Reference....................................................................................................................................22
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Introduction
The main aim of this study is to look into the health and social care industry and mainly know
the basic techniques of how it should work smoothly. We have taken the Aldgate East Care
Home . the basic things one needs to know is the assessment of the risks and how to handle it.
The rules ,regulations and policies are mainly studied and newer policies have been made. It
has also been studied the rules made by the government regulatory boards and how it can be
included in the policies of the health and social care organization. The various acts and rules
are clearly stated and the role of the management is to see that all the member of this
organization abide by the same.
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Task 1A: Understand how health and safety legislation is implemented in the health and
social care workplace.
Use your own workplace experience to support your answers. According to the case
scenario, review how you will develop procedures for communicating health and safety
information [P 1.1,D1}
In health and care services, it is thought that communication is necessary to carry out the task in
a proper way. In any industry communication skills is utterly important to build up any relation. It
is utterly important in the health and social care industry (Moss,2017). The employer should
provide basic information to the employees on the basis of:
 Potential risks in the industry
 Preventive and protective measures for those risks
 Emergency strategies
 Those who are important in the organisation
 Safety management
According to the relevant legislation regulations made on 1981, the employer should inform all
those information the employees, which are related to the safety issues of a patient as well as
the employee should know about the well equipment of the management (Glasby,2017). The
basic amenities should be present in the health care workplace for the first aid issues. The other
regulations which are present as the codes of practice are as follow:
 Health and Safety at work act (1974)
 Manual handling operations regulations (1992)
 Managements of Health and safety at work regulations (1992)
 Provision of Workplace Equipment Regulations
 Personal Protective Equipment Regulations
 Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations (1981)
It is the duty of the employer to inform the employees with all those necessary equipments to
make the employee carry out the job properly. A strong communication skill of the employer is
needed, because unless the employer tells about the necessary architecture of the workplace it
is difficult for the employees to know about it (Manners,2017).
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In Aldgate East Care Home, during the induction the employer should provide the employee a
hard copy of the organization’s policy as well as the health and safety systems. The
organization does not follow the rules and regulation for the safety measures. So if the
employee is being asked to know about the fire exit, or the first aid kit, they do not have proper
idea (Burke et al., 2018). This shows a communication gap; because this is the basic
information is missing from the regulation book. This also shows the apathetic attitude of the
organization towards the patients. Time management also plays an important role from the
employee’s end to carry his job.
Being in health and care service it is always necessary think about the patient’s safety at first
and it is employer’s duty to explain those safety measures to the employee. The employee of
Aldgate East Care Home is completely unaware of the necessary measures to be taken which
will lead to the complete failure in the care giving and rescuing the patients if any emergency
occurs. The safety measures and the road map of the organization should be provided to the
employee then only it will help to rescue the patients during emergency hours. The opinion of an
employee is also necessary to listen at. For overcoming these flaws in the organization the
communicative methods that the organization can think of are:
 Intranet Bulletin Board
 Email
 Notice Boards
 Existing Staff newsletters
 Leaflets
 Individual memos or letters
 Proper induction training with all the information given to the new recruitment
 Formal training
 Face to face communication
 Posters
The employee should have proper knowledge about the safety measures and dedicated to his
work (Abdool, 2017). Through strong communication with employer this hazardous problems
can be solved by providing necessary solutions.
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