Health and Social Care Assignment HSC

Health and Social
care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Reviewing the Systems, Policies and Procedures formed by legislation..............................1
1.2 Assess the responsibilities in a specific health and social care workplace...........................2
3.3 Self- Contribution to evaluate health and safety standards...................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
1.3 Analysis of health and safety priorities for social and health care work..............................3
2.4 Effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation................................................4
2.2 Analysis of the impact of one health and safety policy........................................................5
3.1 Reviewing and monitoring of health care policies................................................................6
2.1 Analysis of information obtained and its role in care planning and organisational decision-
making.........................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
2.3 Dilemmas are encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies.....................7
3.2 Analysis and effectiveness of health and safety policies and practices in workplace...........8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is referred to as services which are provided to the residents of a
country so that they are able to carry out a healthy and stable lifestyle (Cancelliere and et al.,
2011). This term is used often to define healthcare structure of a country inclusive of private
sector. The practitioners who work in such domain makes sure that clients of this sector are able
to carry out an basic and holistic care needs are met. This sector is closely related to the medical
profession and emphasis on catering needs of people majorly through community day care
centres and nursing homes.
1.1 Reviewing the Systems, Policies and Procedures formed by legislation
Risk is defined to be probable loss which might occur to an individual. The worker have
to ensure that all the precaution are taken and their impact have been minimized on the client.
The focus of service provider should be on the risks which carry the power to cause potential
harm to the client. Staff needs to rightly identify the same and take precautionary measures so
that major accidents can be prevented. There is an essential needs in a health-and-social-care
institution to install a communication pattern so that such incidents can be communicated before
they cause any real harm to client. The two major risks are physical risks (slippery floors, faulty
equipment, hot surfaces) and Procedural risks (Task handling, infection control and attitudes of
clients) Communication in an organisation can be facilitated through revamping organisational
structure and equipping workforce with right set of training so that major accidents can be
prevented from happening (Cooper and Quick, 2017). The legislations which aims to maintain
health and safety standards are as follows:
Health and safety of employees act 1974: this act aims to ensure that employees are safe
and tasks which are allotted to them can be practised. The provision under this act are to equip
them will safe operations and welfare provisions so that they are provided with a healthy and
riskless working environment.
Health and social care act 2008: this law takes into consideration the circumstances of
clients. The emphasis is on welfare and preferences of client. Emphasizing on safety of client a
service provider have to take balanced and calculated risks.
Workplace safety regulation 1999: This act was introduced as a reformed version of the
1974 Act. This legislation bounds a service provider to avoid risks and combatting which are
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unavoidable by organisation. The health and safety provisions are to be conformed under this
legislation.
1.2 Assess the responsibilities in a specific health and social care workplace
Managing risk is a task which cannot be carried out by a single individual. Therefore to
manage risk in an ideal manner responsibilities are divided on to various individual such are:
Organisational Responsibilities: An organisation in health and social care segment
comprises of numerous parties such as employers, employee, service-user and carers. Risk have
become an integral part of service provision. It is an inclusive part of treating patients and
service priorities. The organisation can formulate policies and strategies which ensure that
activities are carried out in an riskless manner (Demerouti and Bakker, 2011.).
Monitoring and evaluation processes: these are the measures which are carried out at
operational level at the same time conforming to legislation introduced by the government. The
efforts include safety inspections and hazard monitoring so that major risks can be countered
with.
Auditing: It refers to the examination of health and safety measures adopted by the
business. The large organisation carry a formal system through which health and safety
performance of a health care is audited. Such organisation conducts both internal and external
audit to ensure that health and safety measures are up-to-date at the same conforming to
legislation established by the government. The safety & health audit recognition programme
(SHARP) is a renowned in-house management tool used to audit risk management measures of a
system.
Management structure: The management structure in health and social care comprises of
a health and safety committee who is responsible for formulating policy and planning. Health
and safety officers are individual which come under policy formulators and are responsible for
planning and implementation of the same then followed by personnel who are implementers of
policy. Organisation or management structure is also crucial in setting standard of health and
safety at a workplace (Freivalds and Niebel, 2013). The management with their policy
formulation defines the standards of risk assessment in context of an organisation.
3.3 Self- Contribution to evaluate health and safety standards
It is the duty of each and every individual related to an organisation to analyse health and
safety standards so that differences can be addressed. I have been a part of this health care
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