Workplace Health and Safety in Aged Care Facilities

Running head: WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
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WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Organizational description...............................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
Reference.........................................................................................................................................5
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................6

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY2
Introduction
In the aged care facilities, majority of the risk and injuries arises from the aged care
industry and it results from the musculoskeletal injuries like the back injuries. The back injuries
are mainly occurring due to the high risks arising from handling of the manual task like pushing
patient trolleys, moving people and lifting. The other major type of injuries is stress from the
work environment, struck by something (falling objects or sharp knives), food contaminated
floors which might have wet and slips (Mercovich, Kyle & Naunton, 2014). According to the,
safe work Australia, the health care & social assistance the number of fatalities and for the year
2016, 2017 and 5year average is 4, 4, ,3 respectively. The aim of the assessment is to select a
company named Vacenti Age Care and assess the workplace health and safety associated with
the organization (safeworkaustralia.gov.au, 2019).
Organizational description
Vacenti is an excellent aged care delivery for the seniors that are living in the South-East
Queensland exceeding 40 years. Vacenti is a family owned company and family values remain at
the core of the business. Each and every resident at Vacenti is treated with understanding,
respect, integrity, warmth. The staffs and the carers at the Vacenti work hard so that they can
develop a trustworthy relationship with the loved ones so as to ensure the health care needs are
met. Vacenti is an aged care facility and it belongs to the aged care industry. The aged care
facility provides care for the aged people (vacenti.com.au, 2019).
The risk assessment was done through the risk matrix. This assessment was done through
a risk matrix and this matrix served to fill the risk assessment and control worksheet. The risk
assessment and control worksheet is used to record the hazards that are identified, what are the