Health and Safety Report: HSC 1.1 Legislative Framework and Compliance

This report provides a comprehensive overview of health and safety within the Health and Social Care (HSC) setting. It begins by outlining the legislative framework, primarily focusing on the 1974 Health and Safety at Work etc. Act and its core purpose of protecting individuals and ensuring safety, welfare, and health. The report then details the roles and responsibilities of both employers and employees, as defined by the law, including arrangements for employee safety, risk minimization, and the provision of supervision. The consequences of noncompliance with health and safety requirements are discussed, emphasizing financial penalties and the potential for endangering lives. The report also emphasizes the importance of supporting others in complying with health and safety requirements through hazard identification, risk assessment, and the establishment of health and safety policies. Finally, the report highlights the significance of record-keeping in maintaining an effective health and safety management system, facilitating performance evaluation, and monitoring the progress of safety measures. The report underscores the importance of adhering to health and safety regulations and the benefits of maintaining thorough records to ensure a safe working environment.

Health and Safety in HSC

1.1 Legislative framework for health and safety in health and social care work setting
The legislative framework for health and safety in health and social care consist of the
main purpose of 1974 Health and Safety at Work etc Act which is laid in Section 1 of the Act and this
consists of –
 Protecting individuals from the risk which may arise due to the activities which are undertaken at the
work setting.
 To secure the people at work from safety, welfare and health.
 This legislative framework is done in three ways which helps in explaining the core purpose of what
the legislation framework consists for health and safety act.

1.2 Employer and employee roles and responsibilities for health and safety by legislation
Under the law employers are responsible for the health and safety which inculcates the process
of how to take care of the health and safety of the employees on large scale. Employers’ duties are
processed in the form of how and in what ways the employer is taking the health and safety concerns on
large levels. The other Section 2 (2) regards in the general role and responsibility which the employer
delivers –
 Arrangements are to be done which ensures that the employees’ safety is taken care of.
 Minimal or least risk is there to the employees while handling or transporting the substances at the work
(Greidanus and et.al., 2018).
 Provision of supervision to be done and performed for the health and safety factors.

Under the law and Section 7 and Section 8, employees are responsible for the
activities which are being undertaken by them on the scale that it provides the basis through
which health and safety factors are to be considered important and this helps in ensuring what
and how the process in following the health and safety measures.
 To cooperate with the employer is the major responsibility which the employee is concerned of
to deliver.
 To take care of them on the note to not give and create any problems which is concerned with
health and safety.

2.1 Consequences of noncompliance with health and safety requirements
There are various consequences of noncompliance with health and safety
requirements which are described as follows –
 Financial Penalties – Financial penalties can issue unlimited imprisonment and fines. The
employee when being injured at the workplace where there is best practice which is being
implemented for health and safety on large scale then there are ways through which corrections
and measures can be taken.
 Endangering Lives – Any injury or death of a worker at the workplace will lead to endangered
lives of other employees too which will make sure that the protocols of health and safety
measures are not being followed on large scale or are neglected. And this will cause to pay the
fines which will be administered (Salguero-Caparrós and et.al., 2020).

2.2 Support others to comply with health and safety requirements
Complying with health and safety requirements defines the process which incurs in identifying
hazards and carrying out the assessment of where the risk is. For this health and safety policy should be
framed and consultation of health and safety of the employees should be regarded as important in this phase
of what actually is the framing and how the company is considering the phase of the new work procedures
on large scale. Health and safety requirements should be fulfilled on the basis that they equally comply with
the measures which are being taken on the scale of what measures it concerns for the health and safety act.
For complying with the health and safety requirements it is very necessary to initiate the law
that complies with the health and safety law poster. To provide suitable facilities at the workplace so that the
employees do not find it difficult to measure and take preventive measures at the workplace.

2.3 Importance of record keeping in relation to health and safety
Maintaining records helps the workplace’s health and safety management system to run
effectively and efficiently so that there are no difficulties and problems which are faced in keeping up and
maintaining the record. Record keeping helps in analyzing and evaluating the performance of the employees
in the health and safety sector. Records help in monitoring and progressing the health and safety measures
so that there is no difficulty in the future. Record keeping helps in maintaining the measures of how the
health and safety facilities are being taken into consideration (Zimmerman, 2019).
Good records help in increasing the scales of how the health and safety measures are taken in
consideration.