Safe Work Practices: Hazards, Risks, and Precautions

Safe work practices

TABLE OF CONTENT
1.1.................................................................................................................................................4
1.2.................................................................................................................................................4
1.3.................................................................................................................................................4
1.4.................................................................................................................................................4
2....................................................................................................................................................5
3 ...................................................................................................................................................5
4.1.................................................................................................................................................6
4.2.................................................................................................................................................6
6....................................................................................................................................................6
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7....................................................................................................................................................7
7.1.................................................................................................................................................7
8....................................................................................................................................................7
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................8
1....................................................................................................................................................8
2....................................................................................................................................................8
3....................................................................................................................................................8
4....................................................................................................................................................8
5....................................................................................................................................................8
6....................................................................................................................................................9
7. Hand hygiene:..........................................................................................................................9
8. Resident room:.........................................................................................................................9
9. What to report:.........................................................................................................................9
10. Personal risk:..........................................................................................................................9
11. Duty of care:........................................................................................................................10
CASE STUDY 2............................................................................................................................10
1. Report this situations:............................................................................................................10
2. Future care:............................................................................................................................10
3. Warning sign:.........................................................................................................................10
4. Risk assessment:....................................................................................................................11

6. reduce risk in the future:........................................................................................................11
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
PART A:....................................................................................................................................11
2. Discussing each policy and procedures with relevant legislation and standards:..................11
PART B..........................................................................................................................................12
PART C..........................................................................................................................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................15
1. finding any non compliance during the inspection:...............................................................15
2. what to do with non compliance item:...................................................................................16
3. How often these area need to be inspected:..........................................................................16
TASK 5..........................................................................................................................................16
1. Risk assessment control form:...............................................................................................16
2. Risk matrix:............................................................................................................................17
3. Risk assessment control form:...............................................................................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................20
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

1.1
Ans- A hazard refers to potential sources that might create harm and provide adverse health
effects over an individual.
1.2
Ans- Risk illustrates the possibility of something bad happening as it involves uncertainty about
the implications that can be faced due to an activity with respect to something that valued by an
individual by often focusing towards the pessimistic and undesirable consequences (Hughes and
Afanuh, 2021).
1.3
Is this a hazard? Tick each correct answer
Working with client in their homes
A strained back ✓
Showering a client
Lifting a box ✓
Working long hours ✓
Stress ✓
1.4
(a) Poor manual handling can result into injuries, long term musculoskeletal disorders and joint
pain issues. Moreover, one can also have to face stress and anxiety.
(b) Inappropriate way of handling mobility equipment might lead to underarm crutches that also
lead towards a condition of crutch paralysis.
 One can have a risk of cuts and punctures, chemical burns, electric shocks along with
exposure of excessive vibration and noise.

 Poorly prepared plans, will lead towards disorganized evacuation or emergency responses
that resulting into injury, confu6.sion as well as property damage.
(e) The management team will unable to aid from proper risk assessment and identify effective
solutions to potential risks.
(f) Overall spreading of the infection that might lead to drastic situation.
2.
Ans- Provide adequate means of escape
Outline clear pathways to exit doors
Install smoke detection system
Conduct regular fire drills
Use flame retardant material in interiors
Keep building plans handy.
3
(a) Reporting of hazards provide an appropriate solution and ways to remove or mitigate
something from which others are highly unaware as once the hazard have been identified, they
can be handled in proper manner along with reduces or eliminate the risk of death or injury.
3.1 (a) Yes, the supervisor must report this issue as a work health and safety issue to
management because this forbidding air conditioners lead to serious hazards as the staff
members are working in front of fire which creates the whole environment hot for them which
might create harmful impacts over the workers who are working over there.
◦ (b) The supervisor must report the incident to the WHS in order to resolve the issue at
utmost priority level.
◦ (c) Initially by providing fundamental information.
Take note of any damages and injuries.
Identify affected people
Take action

4.1
Standard precautions are the primal level of infection control that should be utilized in the care of
the patients for all the time (Baguma, 2021). This will enable to reduce risks of transmission of
microorganisms from recognized and non-recognized sources of infection. It has been used for
all patient care as they are based upon risk assessment and make use of common sense practices
and personal protection equipments to protect healthcare providers from infection. For example
hand hygiene before and after patient contact, use personal protective equipments such as gloves,
gowns, etc. and safe use and disposal of sharps.
4.2
Additional precautions are infection prevention and control measures as well as practices
required in addition to routine practices. It has been applied when patients have a known and
suspected infectious agent that might not be contained using standard precaution alone. Three
examples of additional precautions are contact precaution, droplet precaution and airborne
precaution.
◦ The client has the responsibility to avoid contacting the worker as she is suffering
from diarrhoea and not allowed him to do home visit as well.
◦ The symptoms show the disease of diarrhoea.
◦ The risk of spreading diarrhoea should be minimized by washing hands often, taking
good hygiene and using improved sanitization measures.
◦ Getting entry within the home premises of the client create risk to the worker as she is
suffering from diarrhoea which is a communicable disease that can be easily spread
specially through direct contact with vomit and faeces from infected people (Beutel,
2018). It can also spread through contact with contaminated surface or object.
6.
Ans- Three things that help an individual to remain updated with safe work practices are:
 Keeping tidy work space
 Inspection of equipments