Health and Safety Policies in Health and Social Care Institutions

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE HEALTH
AND SAFETY
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
LO: 1..........................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Review the systems, policies and procedures which the new director need to implement to
ensure that information on health and safety is properly communicated...................................4
1.2 Assess the responsibilities for managing health and safety within the North Staffordshire
NHS Trust..................................................................................................................................4
1.3 Select one service area from the above trust – for example, any of the following: surgical,
medical, elderly, children – analyse the health and safety priorities for the service chosen.....4
Notes on poster:..........................................................................................................................6
LO: 3........................................................................................................................................11
3.1 Explain how health and safety practices can be monitored and reviewed.........................12
3.2 Analyse the effectiveness of Health and Safety policies and practices in the workplace in
promoting a positive health and safety culture........................................................................13
3.3 Evaluate your own contribution to placing the health and safety needs of individuals at
the centre of practice................................................................................................................15
Conclusion................................................................................................................................16
Reference List:.........................................................................................................................17
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Introduction
Health and social care is a sensitive field in the sphere of life broadly, and more so in the
modern world of far reaching globalisation that has transformed societies across the planet to
bear the burden of a stressed and health system. The reason can be traced down to the
deficiency in the performance parameters that needs a thorough revision and streamlining to
match the needs of the modern time. The current assignment prepares the stage to have a
detailed discussion on the various policies and practice in health and social care that needs to
be modified or introduced in order to achieve inter-professional collaboration. In succession
to the same the various nuances and niceties of the application and practice of regulations
and policies will be discussed with reference to an array of cases, which throw infiltrating
luminary to support the discussion and the subsequent interpretations.
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LO: 1
1.1 Review the systems, policies and procedures which the new director need to
implement to ensure that information on health and safety is properly communicated
1.2 Assess the responsibilities for managing health and safety within the North
Staffordshire NHS Trust
1.3 Select one service area from the above trust – for example, any of the following:
surgical, medical, elderly, children – analyse the health and safety priorities for the
service chosen
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