Health and Safety Implementation in Health and Social Care Sector

This report discusses health and safety practices within the Northfolk nursing home, emphasizing the importance of risk management, staff training, and compliance with health and safety legislation. It examines the impact of these practices on social care, potential dilemmas in implementing health and safety systems, and the effects of non-compliance. The report also evaluates methods for monitoring health and safety, the effectiveness of existing policies, and the author's contribution to implementing these measures, highlighting the need for continuous monitoring and adherence to legislative acts to ensure patient safety and well-being within the nursing home environment. The study concludes that maintaining health and safety standards is crucial for preventing complications and ensuring a secure environment for patients and staff.

2.1 Care planning for individuals and organizational decision making
Risk management is considered as a method which can help in assessing the data and
information which further helps in identifying all the risk factors of a person and it is based upon
various factors of an individual such as their habits, age, weight and other related factors. The
information from the risk assessment can prove very beneficial for individuals and for Northfolk
nursing home. It also has a special impact on the decision making process. As per NHS,
assessment of risk has become compulsory in every health and safety organization, so as in
Northfolk nursing home as well. By using this, the Northfolk nursing home can stay protected
from a various number of harmful factors that can act as a barrier or challenge for the nursing
home in providing treatment to the patients including Patrick. By making a risk assessment plan,
the nursing home can be able to analyze that from what sort of issues they should stay protected.
After analyzing them, the nursing home can also make pre strategies that in case of occurrence of
such complex and complicated situation, they can make use of them and continue in their process
without any issue. As per the health and safety act 1925, it has been become compulsory to make
the risk assessment document, so the Northfolk nursing home should also ensure the fact to
prepare a proper and appropriate risk assessment document and must display it in their nursing
home. Therefore, it is compulsory for the Northfolk nursing home as well that while creating all
the policies and procedures, the nursing home must have to produce all the considering factors
for the risk assessment.
2.2 Impact of any one aspect on social care practice
Providing proper training and development about the roles and responsibilities is
considered as one of the basic aspect of the nursing home. So, it is the responsibility of Northfolk
nursing home that it ensures to manage to provide proper and much effective training and
development to its nursing staff so that they can stay aware of their basic roles and
responsibilities and understand how to prevent all the harmful factors along with the risks. The
Northfolk nursing home can include ad hoc trainings and other sessions so that it will help in
maximizing their knowledge on various practices of the health and safety. A very common
example of this can be considered as that if a new employee has joined the nursing home but has
not provide proper training an development on using the x ray machines. When some patient will
come for checking their x rays, the person will not be able to do anything because they have no
or very less information about that. In this case, the person may also do anything that can stay
possible on his side, but as lesser knowledge is dangerous, so it might create some sort of
complications and complexities. So, if the Northfolk nursing home will provide proper training
to each employee, then they can ensure a lesser risk of any nursing staff doing blunders. So the
process does not give only knowledge to an individual, but also makes the person capable of
completing their duties in an appropriate way. The same process can go further as well as the
person will be further able to teach new employees about all the safety practices in the Northfolk
nursing home.

2.3 Dilemmas encountered in implementing systems and policies for health and
safety
While planning health and safety for a nursing home, it is obvious enough that the home
might have to face some risks or dilemmas. Following are discussed some dilemmas that the
Northfolk nursing home may also face while implementing health and safety. These are
discussed as following :
Health and safety risks in case of supply chains
As the Northfolk nursing home must be having some policies and procedure for
maintaining proper safety measures, it is not necessary that the suppliers may also be following
the same as these are the third party people and might become the result for creating any
complex or complicated situations.
Impacting technology
Although involving the digital technology can stay very helpful and beneficial for the
Northfolk nursing home as it can help them in increasing the rate at which they are doing
activities. Also the technology can help them in excluding all the manual processes so that it can
help in maximizing the success rate of the home, but is also necessary to ensure that the
installation power is very much and requires a much but one time amount as well. In this case, if
the operator is not available, then it can act as dilemma for the Northfolk nursing home.
2.4 Effects of non compliance with health and safety legislation in Northfolk nursing
home
Various number of complications can arise in case if a health and safety organization may
not follow all the compliances. These compliances are being provided by the government in
order to maximize the rate of healthy people, thus avoiding all the complex and complicating
situations. Although there are enormous number of legislations that are provided for the health
and safety organizations such as the equality act 2010, the health an safety act, mental health act
1983 etc. The effects of non compliance of various legislations have different impact on the
health and safety measures in the Northfolk nursing home. So, the Northfolk nursing home
should ensure that the physicians must be able to compete with the other ones, that means they
should have physical competencies in laws, otherwise they may have to pay some penalties
according to the dis punishment of the law. As in the equality act 2010, it says there should be no
sort of discrimination in the workplace. Northfolk nursing home should also ensure the fact of
treating everyone in the home equal and not discriminating anyone on the basis of their colour,
race or gender. It is completely not allowed in any organization. If any nursing staff or authority
may found guilty in this, they might have to pay huge penalties. Also, they can even get
suspended from their job for a specific or may be longer period of time.

TASK 3
3.1 How health and safety practices can be monitored
It is very necessary for the Northfolk nursing home to measure the current and the
ongoing service along with the risks. The health and safety in the Northfolk nursing home can be
monitored I a number of ways which are discussed as following :
Measuring the performance
The Northfolk nursing home can measure all the health and safety practices and it is
considered as a very important aspect because it can help the home in analyzing all the threats as
well, so that they can focus on them and see for any further modifications which will be very
beneficial for the Northfolk nursing home.
Including active measures
These active measures helps in giving the feedbacks and these refer to various factors
such as the implementation and the operational system of the Northfolk nursing home,
compliances of the standards and all the practices, inspection about the condition of the site,
monitoring of the environment, surveillance of how the patients are being treated by the nursing
staff and the behavioral observation as well.
Inspections
Having inspections is a very better way of checking whether everything in the nursing
hoe is going well or not. This can be done by talking to various patients, their family members
and through very obvious the CCTV cameras. Along with the inspection of the behavior, it also
includes the condition of the nursing home and all the facilities that the nursing home provides
for its staff and patients as well.
3.2 Effectiveness of health and safety policies in the Northfolk nursing home
The culture and environment of the nursing home has various impact on the condition of
the policies and patients. The effectiveness of various policies and procedures are discussed as
following :
Designing of the project
An efficient and appropriate design of the Northfolk nursing home can lead it to achieve
better outcomes and a culture which can seem happier as well as healthier.
Risk assessment
While implementing all the policies and procedures of the organization, it is important to
consider all the risk factors as well because it can help the Northfolk nursing home in analyzing
what factors should the nursing home can avoid because these risk factors can act as barriers for

the nursing home. So a pre assessment of the risk factors can prove very beneficial for the
Northfolk nursing home.
Emergency precautions
It is very essential for the Northfolk nursing home that it keeps all its emergency
precautions ready as in case of fire, there should be proper number of fire extinguishers so that
the problem can be solved in the minimum time and the nursing home should not have to face
huge issues because of the destruction of the property by fire, or loss of life of various patients.
So, the home can ensure a proper preparation of it.
3.3 Evaluation of own contribution of placing health and safety measures
While the implementation of various practices that can be used in the Northfolk nursing
home, I came to know about various legislation acts such as the equality act, health and safety
act etc. and its importance that how they are beneficial for the patients as well as the Northfolk
nursing home. Along with it, I also learned about the importance of doing risk assessment along
with the basic implementation as it is very essential for any organization.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the report that health and safety is considered as a very
essential and important factor in the Northfolk nursing home. Also it includes the monitoring of
the implementation of all the legislations of the health and safety in order to make sure that the
patients may not have to suffer from any complex situation. It also included various legislation
policies which has a very important impact on maintaining the safety and health of all the
patients.