Health Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Setting

This presentation provides an overview of health safety and wellbeing in a health and social care setting. It covers topics such as legislations, health and safety policies, responsibilities, safe handling practices, infection control, and more.

Health safety and wellbeing in
health and social care setting

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Identify legislations relating to health and safety
 Explain how health and safety policies and procedures and other agreed ways of working
underpin practice
 Explain main health and safety responsibilities of
 Identify task in work setting that should not be carried out without training
 Explain principles of safe moving and handling
 Describe safe practices for handling hazardous substances

Table of Content
 Understand the principles of chain of infection
 Understand the impact of breaking the chain of infection
 Explain own role in reducing the spread of infection
 Describe the recommended method of hand-washing
 Explain how to ensure that own health and hygiene do not pose a risk to an individual or to
other at work
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Health and safety wellbeing are important for each and every individual as it leads to promote
satisfaction among people and make them productive towards their work. Well-being is the white
concept as it is related with several areas like individual dignity, corporal and mental fitness,
defense from abuse, contribution in work, social and economic comfort, appropriateness of the
living lodging of an individual and contribution towards the society.

Identify legislations relating to health and
safety
Health and social care act 2015 provide information regarding the individuals that they
cared for considering the consistent identifier by offering safe and effective care to
individuals regarding certain offences and remove them from the registers of Health and
social care regulatory bodies.

Explain how health and safety policies and
procedures and other agreed ways of
working underpin practice
Policies are put into the place in order to make sure that the policies are properly
being followed by the people of country in care of setting them safe and fulfil their
needs by meeting the standards and suitable ways.

Explain main health and safety
accountabilities of
Self: The primary responsibility of every individual is to take reasonable care of them in order
to make sure the health and safety of them.
Employer: The basic responsibility of employer is to make sure that the work place is safe for
employees as the need to assess and eliminate the risk factor at the workplace.
Others: Every individual like users and visitors was be responsible regarding the health and
safety as they take reasonable care of themselves.

Identify task in work location that should
not be carried out without exercise
Employers also need to
make sure that the training of
employees is up to date and provide
refreshes as per their need when there
are changes in regulations and
legislations.

Explain principles of safe moving and
handling
Communication is the basic factor for the safe moving and handling as
communicating with the co-workers is important for an individual in order to help them and
aware regarding the situation. Hence poor communication leads to make task unsafe and even
the other components also tends to perform well.

Describe safe practices for handling
hazardous substances
They also need to handle Store risky materials safely and undertake the approved process.
They also transfer the flammable liquids Into the Other containers and always carry chemicals
in the approved containers.

Understand the principles of chain of
infection
The infectious diseases are related to the illness because of the toxic creation that arises through the
broadcast from the infected person and object. These diseases are accountable for the huge global
load of illness that leads to impact the economy is worldwide and Public Health system.

Understand the impact of breaking the
chain of infection
Healthcare-associated infections leads to occur in any Healthcare setting by specifying the risk
which is different and the basic principles for the infection prevention that apply the regardless
of the settings.

Explain own role in reducing the spread of
infection
People need to get vaccination as it leads to reduce the possibility of contracting many
diseases. People need to take antibiotics only when they are prescribed and also need to stay
home if they have the symptoms of an infection.

Describe the recommended method of hand-
washing
Germs can be spread from the other people by touching their eyes nose mouth with the
unwashed hands. Germs can also spread by preparing and eating food and drinks with
unwashed hands and blow cough and sneeze into the hands and then touch other individuals’
hand and common objects.

Explain how to ensure that own health and
hygiene do not pose a risk to an individual
or to other at work
Health Care individual and practitioner have the responsibility to maintain good level of
hygiene and health in order to prevent from the spread of infection. For this they need to keep
up date with the vaccinations and use disposable aprons and over sleeves at the time of
handling something contaminated and harmful substance.

Conclusion
From the above discussion it has been analyzed that preserving and protecting health and
safety of the staff members is important in the present time. In regard of this it is important
that the NHS organizations prominently support the physical and mental well-being of people
by making short that staff always stay healthy and protect their colleagues and patients by
effectively delivering services through the challenging time period.

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