Prioritizing Health and Safety: Analysis for Aldgate East Care Home

This report examines the health and safety priorities for Aldgate East Care Home, emphasizing the importance of proactive measures to ensure effective service delivery. It analyzes two critical cases: a fatality due to a fall and health issues stemming from poor hygiene. The report stresses the need for aligning management practices with relevant health and safety legislations, including the First Aid Regulation Act of 1981 and the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974. Key priorities discussed include providing safety aids, conducting thorough risk assessments (particularly concerning fire hazards), and defining clear responsibilities for both employers and employees. The report also highlights the necessity of appropriate training, effective communication of policies, and the implementation of measures to create a safe working environment. It underscores the significance of these measures in preventing accidents, ensuring patient well-being, and fostering a culture of health and safety within the care home.

REVIEW OF POLICIES
ASSESSMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATE HEALTH
AND SAFETY
Policies refers to the basic guidelines that needs to be followed by
every organisation to manage work in proper manner. They need
to be coordinate and cop up their work with working policies so
that effective results can be determined. So, administration needs
to define responsibilities and duties of all individuals so that work
can be performed in proper manner and effective services are
delivered to people. In Aldgate East Care Home, there are more
possibilities of fire incidents whereas information administered by
organisation to workforce are less appropriate in nature.
Appropriate training system is also not provided by HSC to their
staff members due to which incidents occurs. Its good example is
a case of 90 year old man who is died from injuries uninterrupted
in fall from hoist. Various systems, procedures and policies are
need to be communicated by organisation in this aspect. Some
legislations regarding health and safety are as follows:
First aid regulation act, 1981: This act states that, it is
necessary for every organisation
to provide first aid box at workplace so that if any incident
happens, people get aid immediately. It is essential for HSC to
provide training to workforce regarding first aid use. It is required
by Aldgate East Care Home to consider this so that accidents can
be handled and immediate actions are taken.
Health and safety act, 1974: According to this act, it is
mandatory for organisation to administer healthy and safe work
environment to employees so that they can work effectively. In
health and social care, it assists in providing hygienic and safe
surroundings to patients as well as service providers. For Aldgate
East Care Home, it is crucial to implement this act properly so
that fire incidents can be controlled and safety of employees can
be ensured.
It is important for every individual whether they are employees,
employer or customers to determine their responsibility
appropriately. By proper understanding of roles, effective and
valuable services can be delivered. Aldgate East Care Home
render services to mentally torture and disable people. In health
and safety act, it is clearly stated that employer should have to
provide proper working environment to employees so that they
enable to work in better way and deliver effective health services
to people. So, responsibility of employer and employee towards
health & safety are defined below:
Employer: It is a major duty of management of Aldgate
East Care Home to assign appropriate roles of each individual
regarding health & safety and guide them to perform it in well
manner. Employer also needs to work in favour of social prospects
of workforce as well as to those who engage in working. Proper
training should be provided to workforce which assists in reducing
chances of occurring fire incidents or any other.
Employee: Individuals needs to understand their
responsibilities properly so as to maintain good relationship with
patients. They require to work with coordination and cooperation
in order to provide quality services to patients. By proper training,
workforce of Aldgate East Care Home perform their duties in
proper way and eliminates the chances of incidents.
Health and safety priorities of each service provides is different.
It is required by Aldgate East Care Home execute appropriate
H&S (Health and Safety) priorities so that people can get
effective services. In organisation, 2 main cases got underpin
which require to be linked by management to all legislations in
proper manner. One case is related with death of 90 year old
man because of fall from hoist and the other one is associated
with a lady of 97 years old, Mary who got suffering from health
issues due to negligence of hygiene. It is also important to link
these legislations with such cases that are necessary to
understand by administrators of health and social care
organisation in proper way. A major area which should be
considered by managers is to administer appropriate training to
employees regarding health and safety of themselves as well as
others. Below defined are some priorities which needs to be
considered by Aldgate East Care Home at workplace.
Safety aids: By considering past cases occurred in Aldgate East
Care Home, it becomes the major priority of organisation to
provide safety aids to individual who are working with them.
Chances of happening incidents can be reduced by proper
handling of tools and equipments. So, management needs to
consider this factor and provide safety measures to care
providers.
Risk assessment: It is the another priority that should be
understand by management. Assessment of risk is necessary in
order to control unnecessary accidents. In given case, main
aspect that underpinned at Aldgate East Care Home is related to
fire accident. If this risk is assessed in advance, incidents could
be controlled. So, it is important for management to implement
various legislations related to health and safety of individuals.
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