Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace Assignment Solution
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Reviewing system, policies and procedures for communicating information on the healthand social care workplace ..........................................................................................................31.2 Presenting the responsibilities of North Stafford shire NHS Trust for the management ofhealth and safety .........................................................................................................................41.3 Presenting health and safety priorities appropriate for the specific health and social wokcare..............................................................................................................................................4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................42.1 Presenting how information from risk assessment inform care planning for individual andorganizational decision ...............................................................................................................42.2 Presenting the impact of health and safety policy on health and social care practice...........42.3 Presenting how dilemma encountered in relation to implementing system and policies forhealth and safety..........................................................................................................................52.4 Presenting the effects of non- compliance with health and safety legislation in specifiedplace............................................................................................................................................6TASK 3............................................................................................................................................63.1 Presenting how health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed........63.2 Presenting the effectiveness of health and safety policies in the workplace........................73.3 Evaluating own contribution to placing the health and safety needs of individual.............8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONHealth and safety care is important in the health sector. Present report deals with differentscenario and helps to understand the importance of health and safety in our daily life. The reportpresents roles and responsibilities for managing health and safety within North Stafford ShireNHS Trust. It also analyses the health and safety priorities appropriate for a specific health andsafety care work place. Report also analyses how the information from risk assessment informscare planning for every individual and organizational decision to help in making polices andprocedure. It also discusses various dilemma that encountered in relation to implementing systemand policies for health and safety. Further, it analyses the effects of non-compliance with healthand safety legislation in specified place. The report explains how these policies or practices arereviewed and the effectiveness of policies help in promoting a positive health and safety culture.TASK 11.1 Reviewing system, policies and procedures for communicating information on the health andsocial care workplace Enclosed in Poster.1.2 Presenting the responsibilities of North Stafford shire NHS Trust for the management ofhealth and safety It is very important for maintaining the health and social care in the perceptive of surgicaldepartment by the management of the hospital. Management should make various workplace aswell as a framework which defines the duty of every employee who is related to this departmentand the timings which will denote their activeness at that particular area. There should be specialattention given to the moping timings where a sign board will be implemented and entries will berestricted till the floor dries out. This should be done in order to prevent those accidents whichare caused by wet floor (Liu, 2018). Apart from this, storage areas for all the surgical instrumentmust be in such a way that it should be out of reach from any other individual who is notassociated with this department. There must be proper arrangement for the washing up thoseequipment a well as disinfectant must be present to make them disinfected from any kind ofgerms which can make other people prone to many diseases which can be life threatening. Theremust be description on various boxes of equipment which contain harp equipment in order toprevent from any kind of cuts or other injuries which can happen due to those equipment. Propertraining must be given to lower employee of health department for creating the awareness
regarding keeping up of cleanliness aspect in the surgical department and severalrecommendation which shall be followed for making that area free from any kinds of accidents. 1.3 Presenting health and safety priorities appropriate for the specific health and social work careThere are various measures which surgical department must follow in order to preventany kind of misshapen that can be life threatening also. There should be safety rules to befollowed by employees who works in that department. A proper cleanliness and hygiene must bemaintained in order to provide protection from diseases and other kind of illness which can becaused due to viruses present at that workplace. Individual who is performing the surgery mustWash hands as well as equipment before and after the surgery apart from this special solutionsare provided to the department which is used after washing to disinfect those instrument as wellas the hands from any kind of bacteria (Friend and Kohn, 2018). Apart from this, there must beproper communication between all the individual present there so that effective processing of thetask can be done which would lead to prevent any lacking gap that can affect it in many ways Allthe equipments must be new or appropriate to use, further those sharp objects which are not inuse must be dumped properly by packing them so that other might not get infected or injured.All the individuals should be properly trained in handling those chemical as well as instrumentwhich include all the aspect such as storing as well as using them in the perfect manner whichcan avoid all accidents which can harm any one. TASK 22.1 Presenting how information from risk assessment inform care planning for individual andorganizational decision Care planning for Individual:By analyzing risk management, it help a patient to improve their present condition andthis risk factors assist helps to save cost by being proactive instead of reactive. So it is necessaryfor a patient to be safe at work place. Risk assessment is very important in care planning. As itshows whether the work is done at proper place or not. Risk assessment can be done byidentifying the hazards, evaluating the risks and deciding the precautions with reviewing theassessment and updating it daily. Under the law of health and safety, an employee must providecomplete training in order to know the work done in the job place (Steinemann, 2018). Riskassessment refers to the process which completely reviewing the risk of employees, support to a
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