Health and Safety Well-Being

This documentation discusses the concept of health & social care and identifies the appropriate use of policies, procedures, legislation, risks, and threats. It covers topics such as responsibilities of everyone in terms of health & safety, managing safety and health, monitoring and reporting potential health & safety risks or threats, controlling and preventing infection in the workplace, handling hazardous substances, and electrical safety.

Health and Safety Well-Being
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Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
Health, safety and well-being refers to the fundamental approach in order to provide
safe living environment for individuals. It is also helping the individuals’ in the context of
medical treatment, maintaining adequate staffing on the basis of client’s needs, access to the
suitable activities. The documentation will discuss the concept of health & social care and
identifying the appropriate use of policies, procedures, legislation, risks and threats.
MAIN BODY
1.1)
 Health & safety at workplace act 1974, it provide the better opportunity for person to
handle legal duties, roles and responsibilities related to the safety. This will help to
create a safe working environment for employees.
 Reporting of disease, injuries regulation 2013, the legislation should be recorded the
incident of serious accidents, measured the incidents by authorities of health & safety
(Piao, Xie and Managi, 2022).
 The regulatory reform order 2005, this regulation is supporting to setup a specific
procedure and identify that how every workplace must be protected or prevented
against fire.
1.2) the main points are considered the health & safety policies which is mainly agreed with
employers because they are helping people to protect or secure workers from harms (Leka
and Jain, 2022). By using health & safety policies, it is regularly reviewed the demand of
workers and ensure that all kind of procedures support in the health protection.
1.3) Here are determined the responsibilities of everyone in terms of health & safety.
As employees-
 To maintain a reasonable care of yourself and other people.
 For purpose care, it uses personal protective equipment.
 Reporting the manager regards of hazards.
 Attend a training session.
As employers-
 Ensuring that maintain a safe working culture or environment.
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 Performed risk assessments to determine any kind of hazards and reduce its high
level.
 Make an effective plan for health & safety emergencies.
As self-
 Taking care of all protection facilities.
 Following a proper workplace procedures.
 Try to avoid mis-use of safety equipment’s
1.4) It is focused on the specific tasks related to the work settings and without needs for
special training.
 Preparation for food management and handling
 Management of healthcare tasks
 Handling both people and object
 Considering first aid
On the basis of analysis, it has been identified that perform different tasks with adequate
training, which will be increasing level of risks. As a result, it can easily estimating the result
or outcome in terms of injury. The employer must ensure that all kind of training perform
with suitable role and interact with others. At that time, it does not require a training but
needs to be completed tasks in proper manner.
2.1) Managing the level of safety and health is an essential aspect for business management.
It must have conducted a risk assessment to identify the dangers, risks present in their
workplace. In some cases, it is also implementing control to guarantee that hazards, risks do
not affects the staff members (Tender and et. al., 2022). The employer’s obligation is ensured
that occupational safety & health including compliance related with OSH and imposed by
national legislation. This will help to perform different tasks in terms of planning, execution,
assessment & action for improvement.
All kind of rules & procedures have followed the common thing: - It can be informed
everyone how to accomplish something and find a place of safety. In some situation, it has
been included clear instruction which must be included in health & safety policies.
2.2) In the context of health & safety, it comes to focus on the important thing about
everyone who have played an important role. By considering the specific guidelines,
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protocols, it can ensure that everyone stays health & safe. On the other, there is a lot of
chances to identify the standard procedures in order to deal with complex situation or
condition. It is always best stick to build a proper guideline where it is possible.
To establish a flexible communication with colleagues and others regarding health & safety
concern. By increasing the level of awareness in terms of good health & safety practices
within enterprise. Each and every employees can work together and improve working
environment (English and Brindis, 2022). Apart from that, it is also moving toward
colleagues and promote the health & safety practices. It will help to maintain a proper
coordination or interaction with them.
2.3) There are different ways to monitor and report the potential health & safety risks or
threats.
 Maintaining a regular check-ups.
 Reporting via communication method or conduct daily staff meetings.
 Keep maintain up-to-date paper work
 Conducting a personal risk assessments
 Equipment risk assessments
2.4) A risk assessment is based on the process or method to carefully examine what I need,
could cause harm to other people (English and Brindis, 2022). It enabled the precautions
which are untaken to prevent ill-health condition and high level of injuries. In relation to the
health & safety, it should be considered the different steps of risk assessment.
 Identify the hazards
 Decide who might have harmed someone and how.
 Evaluating the risks and decide to consider precautions.
 Keep records finding and implement right solutions.
 Review the risk assessment and keep update if required.
2.5)
 Be aware of surroundings- It make sure that keep protect or secure surroundings from
the potential dangers.
 Be calm- it leads the situation of panic and make decision which can put in danger
situation or condition.
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 Check your limits- do not take a risk or threat that are beyond the capabilities or
abilities.
 Be prepared- Make an escape plan at the time of emergency situation and consider all
necessary supplies.
 Take benefit or advantage in terms of security measurement- by using a small things
such as lights, always selecting bright colored items.
2.6) It is always supporting the information related to health & safety. It is important to check
out all essential resources.
 Health & safety executive- In this process, it is focused on the health & safety issues
and identify relevant information, post questions, participate in forums to ask
something health & safety aspects.
 Construction news online- it provide updates on the current problems or issues related
to the health & safety (Piao, Xie and Managi, 2022). It can be possible to search
something from site and links to all aspect of health & safety with considering a
legislation, publications.
 By using work magazine in relation to the health & safety- it should be considered the
magazine and focuses on the development of legal obligation in terms of health &
safety.
3.1) Accidents are considered the major cause by risks or threats in the workplace. In some
cases, it including risk assessment approach that help to prevent people. But it is difficult to
deal complex situation of accident at certain point. Furthermore, it has been identified the
potential accidents that could include:-
 Falls from vehicles, buildings.
 Trips & slips
 Injuries occurred and caused by objects such as glass, knife.
 Poisoning substances through food which has not been cooked in proper manner.
 Scalds and burnings.
On the other hand, it has been examined that individuals can face a sudden illness which
become as part of current condition. If in case, it may arise a sudden illness and increased the
complex situation such as heart attack, stroke, and fainting, diabetic coma (Piao, Xie and
Managi, 2022). It must require to follow a proper safety aspects for individuals and identify
who are majorly affected when it occurred the situation of accident, sudden illness. In the
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workplace, it is needed to follow a health & safety procedure, maintain a proper emergency
case.
3.2) here are followed the different procedures, if a sudden illness and accident occurs:-
 Establishing a coordination with emergency service provider if required.
 Contact with supervisor and make them aware of critical situation or condition.
 Ensure that incidents are properly maintained or recorded.
As per consideration of reporting injuries, and dangerous occurrences regulation, the
responsibility of people to examine the incident of accident and implementing health & safety
policies. For example- If someone is unable to handle critical situation, it would need to be
reported the emergency authority and provide the better healthcare facility or services.
4.1) It is an essential aspect to understand the control and prevention of infection in the
workplace. Every one’s has a responsibility to follow right procedures (OGINNI, AJIBOLA
and OLANIYAN, 2022). Typically, it has been examined the roles and responsibilities of
staff members and employers.
In the context of employer’s-
 It provide the health & social care policies, procedures.
 It is also conducting a proper training for every employees
 It should be used the essential equipment for staff members to carry out their specific
roles
 Necessary tasks can be performed through risk assessments.
In the context of employee’s-
 Keep to create safe environment and following employer’s policies or procedures
 Attending a training session
 Reporting the information related to the potential hazards for their staff members.
4.2) Infectious diseases are commonly spreading through direct coordination with viruses,
bacteria, germs from one person to another. It can happen when a people with directly
connection with viruses touches, sneezes and coughs.
5.1) In the context of health & safety, different kind of regulations are used and relevant to
the handing or moving tasks. For the reason because of high level of risk possibility in terms
of injuries. It associated with different activities but it is needed to ensure safety approaches.
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The healthcare enterprises are agreed with working of different tasks related moving or
handling. It should be considered the relevant legislation:-
 Health & safety act 1974, it provide the better opportunity for people to protect or
secure from harmful effects at workplace.
 Manual handling and operations regulation act 1992, this kind of legislation is helping
to handle manual tasks and avoided any kind of distraction. If it is not possible then
estimate or measure a suitable efforts to reduce risks or threats.
 Use equipment regulation 1998 at workplace- This type of legislation is provided the
facility to keep safe or checked equipment regularly. It is also conducting a training
session for employees.
5.2) It is always used the safe technique for performing different tasks and identified by
considering such as ability or capability of handler, environment and nature of load.
Furthermore, it is also identified the principles for handling, safe moving that assist in terms
of management.
 Get a secure or protect grip- it help to make sure that grip is maintained a comfortable
for children and handler. Afterward, it is also decided before commencing an accurate
procedures.
 Keep maintain load- this kind of principle is helping to reduce the level of stress.
 Maintain a proper posture- it is useful for keep maintain head, neck and balance the
muscle with proper support.
 Always use a proper body momentum- it is important to focus on the tasks handling
procedure and should be fully prepared or agreed with the other one (English and
Brindis, 2022). For example- a person can lift an item but needs to be directly
followed a procedure.
6.1) Hazardous substances are referred to the most dangerous hazards in terms of health as
well as human safety. It is important thing to learn about some common harmful substances
at work, and how they can be handled or controlled in proper manner (Ngajilo and et.al.,
2022). Some common hazardous substances such as fumes, biological agents, chemicals like
paint, pesticides.
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For packaging the items, it is important to identify which kind of hazard a particular
substance and might be looking as warning sign. For example- flammable, oxidising items
are directly affecting the environments.
When determining the workplace hazards, it is necessary thing to consider a right pathways
into body for hazardous substances. It may rise a possibilities of inhalation, absorption and
ingestion. These kind of risks or threats are reduced with the help of effective control
measurement and maintain protection for employees.
6.2) Hazardous substances are needed to be stored, collected, disposed and used properly,
ensure the safety aspects. This means for adhering to the enterprise’s agreed in different ways
of adopting working style and finding right direction. Some employer are focused on risk
assess and handling the hazardous materials (OGINNI, AJIBOLA and OLANIYAN, 2022).
To provide the right information or data for the potential employees so that they can easily
handle with safety.
The harmful substances can be stored in right place on the basis of instructions. Generally, it
can be stored and reduce the possibility of accidents from unauthorised access. It should kept
in tight container and avoid any kind of confusion.
By using harmful substances, it is needed to make an effective plan and then use hazardous
substances when they are unlikely to be distributed. If any kind of spillage can be eliminated
or cleaned immediately.
Some of necessary waste is needed to be disposed in separately. For example- a clinical waste
can be sealed and labelled before disposable. On the other hand, some kind of needles which
are -needed to be disposed in safe place.
7.1) Starting- It has to be make sure that all the electrical appliances are placed at right place
and plugged in proper manner. Furthermore, the working detector smoke needs to be placed
at the place. Moreover, objects that carries fast heat needs to be placed at distance from the
materials that carries heat. These are the major attributes that needs to be put focus in terms
of preventing fire from the starting.
Spreading- In context of taking prevention from the spreading of fire the practice that needs
to be followed involves closing the door at the time of leaving and coming. Also, the fire
extinguisher needs to be place at the specific places that can be reachable (Wei and et.al.,
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2019). Furthermore, the security alarms should work in proper manner so, people can become
aware about the threat and the spread of the fire can be managed.
7.2) Fire can create the loss to the people in different context. It can directly impact the lives
of individuals. Therefore, the measures that assures the prevention in starting of the fire needs
to be taken in proper manner. Here are the measures that needs to be taken in terms of
preventing the fire.
 It has to be make sure that all the electrical cords are in good condition and do not
consist any wires that are frayed.
 Overloading of the electrical outlets needs to be reduced
 The smoking materials needs to be properly disposed (Hesseln, 2018).
 Regular check of the batteries needs to be required.
 The socket or extension cord does not be overloaded
7.3) Raising the alarm- The alarm needs to be raise so, the people can be aware about the fire
and immediately move out from the place.
Evacuate- This is concerned with individual making their ways in order to move out. The
evacuation has been designed at the work that provides the directional instruction to the
people for leaving the place at the time of accidental case (Schmutz and et.al., 2018).
Fire assembly point- All the person must be taken to the fire assembly point where they can
get the sense of safety and should not return- at the building.
7.4) It is important to assure that the evacuation routes are mentioned at all the times and at
proper place as it provides suggestion to the people in terms of following the path that can
take to them towards the fire assembly point (Li and Zhu, 2018). If the evacuation routes are
not maintained in proper manner then, the people can be misguided and there is a threat
towards them. Therefore, the special focus has to be made over evacuation.
8.1) When individuals are requested to access to the premises or data. It is always followed
the agreed procedure before checking the identity of person. Therefore, it is an essential
aspect to verify the name, id and security measures. It helps to keep protect or secure
workplace. On the other hand, it has been following different procedures and ensure that
maintain safety or security of staff members in the organisation.
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It make sure that focuses on the identity of people and also checking their requesting access
and then assigned to the particular staff members. It is necessary aspect to make an important
decision for granting as well as refusing relevant access.
If any kind of incident identified in which identifying the presence of person who are not
authorised. It is the best thing if one people had focused on the responsibility for checking
them properly (Chatigny, 2022). The involvement of many people who can follow a
procedure and likely to implement some necessary actions.
Many people are requesting to access without authorisation so that it should be required to
follow a security procedures and protocols. Everyone’s know about the standards which
needs to be applied and provide the better security guards.
8.2 In order to protect own and others security in the context of work setting. it is important
aspect to follow some common process or method.
 Using and checking id cards.
 Implementing key-codes, locks
 Attending a proper security training approach
 By using firewalls, anti-virus software and password that help to protect or secure
digital data/information.
 Following agreed ways to handle working style or approach.
8.3) It is important to concern about the aware of critical surroundings in regards of
workplace. Generally, it focuses on the security areas or place. Each and every employees are
trying to protect or secure themselves, company from security threats. Most importantly, it is
necessary thing to keep eye on the employees and monitoring their activities (OGINNI,
AJIBOLA and OLANIYAN, 2022). If required, it is providing the right direction and always
keep handle personal belongings with every times. Furthermore, it would be developed more
awareness at every times of what is going on because it is simply targeting to prevent
something at critical situation or condition.
9.1 Stress is the most common problem when it arise due to work pressure. It can be
developed at every situation. Sometimes, it is directly affecting the daily activities so that it
would require for employers to keep encourage their staff members. This will help to manage
and control level of stress in proper manner.
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To effectively control or manage stress, it is important to recognise the initial sign or
symptoms. Therefore, it can easily examine themselves. Some kind of indicators are
representing the level of stress.
 Physical indicators- susceptibility to cold, high blood pressure and increase pulse rate
 Emotional indicator- anger, anxiety, sadness and crying
 Behaviour indicator- isolation, not enjoying activities with others, not eating properly
9.2) Stress is a part of normal life style. at every times, it is always developing stress and
motivate to get promotion at workplace. If someone is not satisfied, it may arise situation of
stress. Every people has different kind of stress triggers. On the basis of study, it has found
that work stress is the most common. The cause of work stress such as working long hours,
unhappy with jobs, high workload, discrimination and harassment. These are considered the
common cause of stress and needs to be controlled in proper manner. Otherwise, it would be
increased complex situation for emotional problems such as anxiety, depression and so on. It
is important to take care of people those are facing a high level of stress.
9.3) Consider the stress management strategies:-
 Exercise- to start with physical activity that can help to improve level of sleeping
nature. It is better to sleep means better stress management. On regular basis, it is
needed to perform exercise and improve their ability or capability towards tasks
handling.
 Diet- the advantage of eating health items which extend beyond mental health
condition. In some cases, it is always identified the effects of stress. Therefore, it is
important to intake fish, eggs, nuts and protein in diet. This will help to maintain and
control level of stress.
9.4) a social support can be developed with connection with friends, family members. it is
different from other ways, which is generally creating a structure and identify mental health
condition of people. Although support groups are playing important role in stress
management. it including family members, friends and colleagues. It is an essential aspect to
improve level of stress and improve the ability to find the best people those are always
encouraging, motivating to achieve desirable goals or objectives (OGINNI, AJIBOLA and
OLANIYAN, 2022). When creating a successful social relation, it is important to establish a
two way participation and establishing a strong connection with people. This is helping to
eliminate or remove level of stress.
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CONCLUSION
Based on the above discussion, it has concluded that identifying the significant role of
health and safety strategies, legislation, policies and procedures. It provide the better
opportunity for individual’s to keep create or develop safe living environment. It is also
helping the individuals’ in the context of medical treatment, maintaining adequate staffing on
the basis of client’s needs, access to the suitable activities. In this report, it has been discussed
the health & social care and understanding the level of work based stress.
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