Health and Safety Practices in Social Care Organizations

UNIT 3- HEALTH AND SAFETY
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................................... 4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.1 Review systems, policies and procedures, which the new director implemented, to
ensure that information on health and safety is properly communicated in accordance
with legislative requirements......................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Assess the responsibilities for managing health and safety also apply to the
Fleetwood Hall Home Case Study in relation to its organisational structure............................7
1.3 Analyse the health and safety priorities for the service chosen...............................................9
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Analyse how information from risk assessment informs care planning for individuals
and organisational decision making about policies and procedures which would avoid
incidents similar to the ones given in the case study.........................................................................10
2.2 Analyse the impact of one aspect of practice to individuals in relation to Health and
safety policies in the case study...................................................................................................................12
2.3 Discuss how dilemma encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies
for health, safety and security may be addressed, using the case study...................................13
2.4 Analyse the effects of non-compliance with health and safety legislation and relate to
the case study...................................................................................................................................................... 15
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................................... 17
3.1 Explain how health and safety practices are monitored and reviewed, referring to the
information given in case study.................................................................................................................. 17
3.2 Analyse the effectiveness of Health and Safety policies and practices and also use the
‘case study’ in promoting a positive, healthy and safe culture......................................................20
3.3 Evaluate your contribution in placing health and safety needs of individuals at the
centre of your practice..................................................................................................................................... 22
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CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................................................. 23
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................................ 24
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INTRODUCTION
In the UK, the occupational health deals with the various aspects of the health and safety in
the workplace. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the primary function of the
health and social care organisation is to ensure their employees that the health prevention
from the hazards can be practised. It has been aforesaid that "Health is the state where
complete mental, physical and social well-being of an individual is examined”. It is merely
undertaken in the absence of disease or infirmity”.
There are some concern areas to which the organization actions are dependend. This has
ranged with the maintenance and promotion of worker’s (Hancock, 2015). The case of the
Fleetwood Hill home care has been carried out in the assessment in order to present the
review of the legislation, policies and procedures for spreading information. This can help
in understanding the risk assessment and policies on health and social care system.
The aim of the assignment is to present the knowledge of the health and safety practices in
social care organization. The effect of the policies and procedures which are relative to the
health and safety at the workplace can be directed in the study.
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TASK 1
1.1 Review systems, policies and procedures, which the new director
implemented, to ensure that information on health and safety is properly
communicated in accordance with legislative requirements
The Fleetwood Hall Home refers to a deliberate system which provides the statement of the
guide decisions and rational outcomes to the policies. It has been stated that in order to
meet the requirement of the health and safety under the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
reference to the policies like RIDDOR, COSHH and Manual Handling of the patients has been
addressed.
The importance of the RIDDOR policy in health and social care plays a major role as it
reports to injuries of the patients. With the help of RIDDOR, the regulations are made on
the premises in order to control the specified workplace incident. This can also help in
preventing the dangerous occurrences and diseases. It is necessary to continue the
regulatory practices (Loeppke, et al. 2015). The prevalence of the RIDDOR reports alert
enforcing authorities help them to investigate serious incidents. The activities that help in
maintaining the specified dangerous occurrences at Fleetwood Hall Homecare. The CQC
noticed under the dangerous occurrences in 2013 that there were some severe incidents
that took place at the Fleetwood which were not safeguarded with the effective concern for
implementing RIDDOR.
Other than this, COSHH stands for Control of substances hazardous to health regulations.
This regulation has presented many controlled substances with cleaning the locality area
where the patient is being resident. The Fleetwood care home people are unaware of the
dangerous substances. This can direct towards the cleaning substances, harm and spray
through which the needs to be kept locked in the stored places (Gilbert, 2015).
Verbal communication can also help in directing the communication with the exchange
program which helps in promptness of the talking to the service users. The role of
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exchanging ideas and maintaining a healthy environment in the organization can be
configured with the help of the verbal communication.
On the other hand, written communication directs the people’s complaints towards the
Fleetwood. This involves any kind of the message such as – through letters, post in
complaint boxes and through e-mails. Thus, this means of communication can help in
managing the activities of the Fleetwood.
Figure1: Safety Sign for Fleetwood Hill residents.
Source: Gilbert, 2015
Further, the graphical representation can also help in managing the activities of the
organization. This can indulge staff to be trained with the informed methods such as DVDs
(Berry, et al. 2017). The Fleetwood can utilise the display of the signboards in order to
make people aware and safeguard from incidence.
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