Health and Safety Legal and Ethical Factors in Home and Community Services

Question 1 A
Question
What are four (4) health and safety legal and ethical factors that you
must consider when providing home and community services? Refer
to any work health and safety legislation, practice standards, basic
home fire safety, etc.
These are some of the health and safety legal along with ethical factors which should
be consider in providing home along with community services.
 Privacy and Confidentiality
 Employment Discrimination
 Harm avoidance
 Consent
Question 1 B
Question
List four (4) legal and ethical factors to ensure dignity, client rights,
professional boundaries, and an abuse-free environment when
providing home and community services.
There are different legal and ethical factors which are effective to ensure client rights, dignity,
professional boundaries and abuse-free environment when providing services in home and
community.
 Informed consent
 Autonomy
 Being professional
 Carefulness
Question 2 A
Question
What are five (5) topics that should be covered in organisational
policies and procedures?
There are some of the topics which should be covered within organizational policies along with
procedures.

 sexual harassment.
 bullying.
 verbal and physical harassment.
 hiring discrimination.
 workplace discrimination.
Question 2 B
Question
In your own words, discuss how you must use risk management
practices when working in a client's home.
There is need to use risk assessment for practices within working in clients home. In this, there is
need to identify hazard which is the process to determine the potential cause of harm. Then, there is
need to assess the risk which can be effective to determine the harm that can cause due to hazard .
Then, there is need to control the risk and include implementation of appropriate control measures.
Question 2 C
Question
Discuss how you would access these organisational policies and
procedures at your workplace.
Organisational policy and procedure can be access as the workplace. In this, there is need to either
go to the reception and ask for the documents which includes policy and procedures . There is need
to use the online internet source that can allow to access the organisational policy and procedure
from organisational website. These are some of the source which is effective and can allow
individual to access the organisational policy and procedure at their workplace.
Question 2 D
Question
Describe how you would access these procedures—including risk
management procedures—at a client’s home.
In this, procedure can be access at the client's home. Nowadays, internet is available at every
individual home. Due to technology, it can also enable individual to access the internet on their
mobile phones. Through this, there is need to use the search engine that can allow to get access to
the organisational website. From organisational website, it can be easy to identify risk management
procedure even after at clients home.
Question 3 A

Question
What are two (2) personal safety procedures you could use to protect
yourself?
There are various personal safety procedure which can be effective and can use to protect ownself.
In this, there is need to to use Presence of Mind and aware of surrounding. This an enable to ensure
about the safety. These are the safety procedure that can allow individual to provide safety.
Question 3 B
Question
What are two (2) personal safety procedures you could use to protect
the client’s property?
There are some of the personal safety procedure which can be used for protecting clients property.
 In this, there is a need to ensure that should be locked which can allow to resist a individual to
enter in clients property.
 There is also need to use the alarm system at client property that can able to provide safety
alert when unauthorised access are tried.
Question 3 C
Question
To work safely, what are four (4) personal and property procedures
or use of equipment procedures you could follow?
There are some of the personal and property procedure which can be effective and should follow at
work place to get safety from any type of harm.
 In this, there is need to wear protective equipment which can be effective and allow to provide
safety from any type of chemical harm. This can also allowed to get safety from any type of
work-related harm.
 There is also need to follow new procedure of protocol which can allow to stay safe at the
workplace without getting any type of harm due to neglect of safety procedure or protocols.
Question 3 D
Question
What are four (4) personal security or safety protocols you could
implement while in the client’s home?