Health and Safety in Healthcare

This assignment delves into the crucial topic of health and safety within the healthcare and social care workplace. It examines various hazards, risk management strategies, legal obligations, and ethical considerations. The document emphasizes the importance of promoting a safe and healthy environment for both patients and healthcare professionals. It also explores the role of interprofessional collaboration in ensuring effective health and safety practices.

HEALTH AND SAFETY IN
THE HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
WORKPLACE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Systems, policies and procedures accordance with legislative requirements.......................1
1.2 Responsibilities for management of the health and safety....................................................2
1.3 Priorities of health and safety which is appropriate..............................................................3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Risk assessment and care plan template for an individuals..................................................4
2.2 Impact of heath and safety policy.........................................................................................5
2.3 Dilemmas encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies...........................6
2.4 Effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation...............................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed..................................7
3.2 Effectiveness of Health and safety policies..........................................................................8
3.3 Own contributions to placing the health and safety..............................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Health and safety is very essential as well as important at the workplace. This issue is
also very crucial at the social and health care premises. Every company must follow all the laws
and legislation which is related to it. Employees can also be satisfied with their work which is
assigned by employer. In Healthcliff lodge their manager will take care of their employee's
health and safety. The manager can also make some strategies for their organisation which helps
in reducing the risk (Cherry and Jacob, 2016). The purpose of this report is to analyse the hazard
which is associated at the workplace and also to find out the effect if Healthcliff is not fulfil all
the compliances.
LO 1
1.1 Systems, policies and procedures accordance with legislative requirements.
There are various types of legislation which support the health and safety at the
workplace which is of welfare and social care. They are described as below:
Health and safety at work Act 1974: There are numerous issues which is related to welfare and
safety at every type of organisation are covered in it. According to this act, it is the primary
responsibility of an employer to take care of the health of their employees or workers.
Management of health and safety at work regulations 1992: As per the act it is need of every
employer to assess the risk and also record the findings (Edelman, Mandle and Kudzma, 2013).
Manager of the Healthcliff lodge can also trained their employees so that they can do their work
together to achieve the goals an objectives of the organisation.
Health and safety regulations 1981: According to this, employer or manager need to ensure
that there is first aid equipment are available at the workplace and every employee must know
how to use them. It is also essential that every worker must aware about the arrangement of first
aid.
According to the above legislation it is necessary for Healthcliff lodge that health and
safety care must be implemented there effectively. In UK, it is the duty of Health department to
implement the policies related to welfare and safety at the workplace. There is a model which is
related to health department is given below:
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The main obligation of the department of health to make policies regarding welfare and
social care at Healthcliff lodge (El-Gilany, El-Wehady and Amr, 2010). They also evaluate or
monitor the policies timely to find out the effectiveness. They do their work at the local level and
also make it for every type of people.
1.2 Responsibilities for management of the health and safety
In UK, Health and safety at the workplace is generally planned by both type of
institutions such as government and non-government. They also have system for this purpose and
with the help of this they can assign the responsibilities to health department. It may include:
 Groups of clinical commissioning.
 Service providers.
 Local and public health.
According to this every department has their own responsibilities regarding health and
safety. It is also necessary for the manager or employer to manage it properly (García-Moreno
and et. al., 2013). There are certain important points which may include in health and safety
management are described as below:
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Illustration 1: Implementation model

Systematic use of technique: It is essential to use the techniques systematically so that
employer or manager can find out the hazards in health and also eliminate it properly from the
workplace.
Risk control: It is also necessary to control the risk at the Healthcliff lodge so that employee can
do their work without any fear.
Example: Individual who is physically disabled.
As per the above example employer or manager can make plan related to him and they
can take him out for dinner or coffee every week. If an individual only want to eat pizza every
week but the supportive know that it is not healthy to eat it on regular basis. In this the
department of heath can make his mental capacity better so that Patrick can take healthy
decision. So that there responsibilities are for organisation as well as their colleagues also.
1.3 Priorities of health and safety which is appropriate
It is main priority of every type of organisation to maintain the health and safety at the
workplace (Geiger-Brown and Lipscomb, 2010). There are certain steps must be taken as a
priority which is related to a disabled individual's health and social care are described as below:
Individual health context:
 Firstly is necessary to understand the behaviour of an individual who is disabled.
 So that it can be easy to find out the reason behind their behaviour.
 After that essential treatment will be start.
 To provide them help it is also necessary to deal with the environment and social issues.
 It is also needed to cooperate with them.
 Them they can identify the improvement regarding their conditions.
Individual safety context:
 People can take that individual at those place which are safe for them.
 It is also necessary to free them from any kind of drugs.
 If an individual is not smoker then they can away from the fire.
It is also necessary to provide them relevant information which is must to know for them.
Employer or manager has to maintain the proper relationship with them (Gordon and Findley,
2011). There are some essential things which are as follows:
 There must be transparency in the organisation and their services.
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 It is also necessary to maintain the proper communication at the workplace.
LO 2
2.1 Risk assessment and care plan template for an individuals
Risk assessment template:
What are the hazards
?
What is the level of
risk ?
Low (L) Medium (M)
or High (H)
How can the risk be
controlled ?
Who is responsible
for managing the
risk?
Hazardous equipment It can be low, medium
and high also because
it depends on the
equipment.
Employer can provide
training to their
employees to control
the risk. Training can
be of both types on the
job as well as off the
job training.
Manager or employer
of the Healthcliff
lodge.
Working environment It can be of both type
either low or high.
By provide better
working environment
(Hymel and et. al.,
2011).
Manager or employer.
Wastage It can be of both type
either low or high.
By provide training to
control the waste or
employer can also
recycle those materials
which can be reuse.
Manager or employer.
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Care plan template:
Assessment
Service users ability to
carry out activity of
living
Goals
What do you want to
Achieve?
Interventions
Actions to achieve the
goal?
Evaluation
How did the plan
work?
How will I know ?
Life care They want to provide
more and more
services to their
patients eg. 108.
They can provide life
care vans to their
patients.
The plan is working
appropriately. I knew
about it from the
employees.
Cleaning They take care of the
health of their patients
so that they maintain
the cleanliness at the
workplace properly.
They use proper
equipments for this
purpose.
The plan is working
very well and when I
visited to the
Healthcliff lodge then
I knew about it
(Kelloway and
Barling, 2010).
2.2 Impact of heath and safety policy
It is necessary to make the policies related to health and safety at workplace and also
cover each and every thing related to it. The impact of this may be positive as well as negative
also on the Healthcliff lodge. There are some policies which are as follows:
Health and safety regulations 1981: As per this act, it is necessary for every employer or
manager to provide training to their employees or workers so that they can know about that how
to use the first aid. They also must ensure about the arrangement regarding it.
Food and safety act: According to this act it is necessary to ensure about the safety regarding it.
There are various types of organisations who provide these type of services such as canteen,
tiffin centres etc. So it is necessary for them to maintain the standards which is related to this act.
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As per the above discussion, it has been concluded that it is necessary to maintain the health and
safety at the Healthcliff lodge (Kosny and MacEachen, 2010). They can also analyse the risk so
that it can be reduced or eliminated. It is also needed to take proper safety regarding food.
Employer or manager must also take care of the hand wash facilities, clothing laundry etc. so that
bacteria could be killed immediately.
Beyond all of this it is necessary to reduce the waste or regarding it relevant instructions must be
provided.
2.3 Dilemmas encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies
Policies regarding health and social care will not always provide optimistic impact but
also it may create some difficulties at the time of implementation. Dilemma means when
difficulty arise more than two option and they all are undesirable. There are various types of
dilemmas which can arise at the time of safety. These are as follows:
 Implication of resources.
 Risk which is related to self and other people (Law and et. al., 2011).
 Service users right.
 Priorities of the stakeholders.
These all are related to the decision regarding health and social care. It is also essential to
maintain the ethical dilemma in the Healthcliff lodge. It can be manage by the following ways
which are as follows:
 It is essential to manage own values.
 Use ethics related to social work.
 It is necessary to assess the risk.
There is also some other dilemmas such as law versus rights of human. According to this when
employee conflict the laws related to health and care then employer must take an strict action
regarding it.
2.4 Effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation
It is necessary for every organisation to follow the health and safety legislation at the
workplace. If they do not comply it then it may be cause of adverse effect (Lundgren and
McMakin, 2013). It may be of two types such as:
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Personal effect :  Injuries
 Health implications
Professional effect:  Prosecution
 Disciplinary action
There are some other effects of non – compliance of health and safety legislation are as follows:
 Employee or worker could not complete their work within time and also manager cannot
task decision effectively.
 They can not also maintain their quality of the products and services.
 It can also be very difficult to decide the price.
 Employees can not use the equipments appropriately so that it may increase the incidents
at the workplace.
 Production can be go down so that they cannot fulfil the needs and wants of their
customers.
 Reputation of the Healthcliff lodge can be go down (Magnavita and Heponiemi, 2011).
 They cannot achieve their goals and objectives within the given time.
LO 3
3.1 Health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed
Monitoring and reviewing of a these policies are mandatory part because it supports the
Healthcliff lodge in performing their activities effectively. Infact, for every human beings their
health is the first priority, so that they can live their life comfortably. Basically, a cited
organization conduct monitoring programme just to get updated about the hidden problems
which may occur in the enterprises. In other words, monitoring and reviewing is the term which
means to acquire accurate data and information.
There are two different tools to monitor and review the health and safety policies or practices-
Proactive monitoring: It is the term which describes the action was perform before happening
of a accident. Infact, it occurs in a two different ways one is that regular inspections is very much
important just to check executed standards and management of control (Marmot and et. al.,
2012). Whereas the other one is requirement of safety audit in brief.
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Reactive monitoring: It is a reaction after incident occurred which means this part happens after
occurrence of any incidental. Infact, reactive monitoring is very helpful in learning from errors
either it was happened due to any injury or illness.
Apart from this health and safety monitoring covers many more things as well as it act as a very
effective techniques due to their positive result for example-
 It helps in identifying the risk and challenges.
 It can promote the health and safety in a social workplace.
3.2 Effectiveness of Health and safety policies
If business entity wants that legislation should be effective, then they have to implement
the different policies or distinctive systems (McCaughey and et. al., 2013). The health and safety
policies and regulations is necessary in the company's or any care homes as it helps in providing
the proper care to their patients. In Healthcliff Lodge Nursing, when the employees use
appropriate and relevant policies then this will help in reducing the number of accidents or
infections. The staff members of care homes should do proper planning which assist in
delivering best care to their patients and according to that they can meet the needs of the service
users. When they are executing the different policies then they have to increase their security so
that they can not face any issues. At the time of applying the health and safety policies effective
communication needs to be done. The managers as well as employees of Healthcliff Lodge
Nursing have to provide equal contribution to provide better policies for the betterment of the
person who are taking the services of the firm. Along with this proper management and
supervision needs to be done of the distinctive health and policies which they are implemented in
the care home. The administration have to set the guidelines so that the staff members can
deliver best services to their patients and they can not face any issues and they also ensure about
the health and safety measures (McKee and et. al., 2011).
3.3 Own contributions to placing the health and safety
It is essential to evaluate the contribution regarding health and safety. It can be done by
personal evaluation as well as professional also. It is necessary to take essential action which
help to reduce the risk regarding health and safety. It will include:
 Determine the hazards.
 It is necessary to evaluate the risk properly.
 It is also essential to know the responsibilities.
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 It is must to make policies and also apply them into the workplace.
 Then evaluate everything and make report.
It is also necessary for each and every organisation to follow laws and legislation at the
workplace. Healthcliff lodge can follow the evaluation model which is presented as below:
I can also identify that which type of policies are there in the company. I can make policies
regarding no smoking, drugs, alcohols etc. at the premises (Reeves and et. al., 2011). I also
managed the procedures regarding illness and prevention of hazardous equipments. I expect that
all these will help to the company in their health and safety and also they can do their work more
effectively and efficiently.
CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report it has been concluded that health and safety is very
essential for every type of organisation. It will also help them in their growth and development.
If there is proper safety at the workplace then it will help in the retention of employee or worker.
Manager can also assess the risk and also implement the policies for this purpose. It will also
help in the decision making process of Healthcliff lodge. There is also some dilemmas which can
affect the company's legislation. If manager want to handle this smartly then they can provide
training to their staff.
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Illustration 2: Evaluation model

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