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Report on Health, Safety and Security in Health and Social Care

   

Added on  2020-06-03

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Health, safety andsecurity in health andsocial care
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P 1 Expected hazards and harms that emerges in a HSC............................................................1P 2 Legislation, policies and procedures relating to health and safety.......................................2P 3 Risk assessment in a health or social care setting.................................................................2P 4 Possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents.....................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONHealth, safety and security are three important terms that needs to considered in a healthand social care. Each and every people wants certain security for their lives and this is the dutyof government to take care of all the workers who are working in a organisation. For this, theyhave imposed some laws regarding maintaining health and safety (Carayon, 2016). The presentreport is explaining the possible hazards in an enterprise so that precaution can be maintained.This also describes policies and legislations that is used for promoting health and safety.TASK 1P 1 Expected hazards and harms that emerges in a HSCSeveral types of hazards are present in a health and social care settings. Some of them arelisted below :Physical environment : Environmental hazards are the things that are present withinsurroundings which can cause harm to employees and customers. Such hazards includepollution, temperature of rooms, objects and many others.Equipments : It is essential in a heath centre that all equipments are used properly andsafely so that clients as well as workers remains safe. Hazards from equipment involvesthings like poor maintenance, tidy work place, unsafe practise, etc. For example,overloaded plug sockets can cause risks for people. Infections : There are several types of infections present in a care setting. For instant,continuous use of single injections can create various risks for the employees and serviceusers as some the patients may be suffering from HIV, Hepatitis B or C (Keleher, andMacDougall,2015).Working conditions : Long working hours can put any body in danger as they losses thecapacity to work more. Working practices : Working practices like manual handling training, preparation offood, working with challenging behaviours, etc. can put staff as well as customers indanger. For example, if food is not prepared by maintaining safety can create risks afterthe consumption of such food. Substance : There are different kinds of substances that are used in a care home andsome of them are proved to be very hazardous to patients and employees if they used1
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