Analysis of Health and Safety in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of health and safety within the healthcare and social care sectors. It begins with an introduction emphasizing the importance of health and safety in modern society, particularly in ensuring the well-being of staff and patients. The report then examines communication systems, policies, and procedures for disseminating health and safety information, highlighting risk assessments and relevant legislation such as the Health and Safety Regulations 1981 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It analyzes the responsibilities of management in maintaining a safe environment, including risk management, auditing, and the implementation of health and safety policies. The report further discusses the individual contributions towards health and safety needs, referencing case studies to illustrate practical applications of these concepts. It also explores dilemmas in implementing health and safety systems and the promotion of positive health practices, concluding with a summary of the key findings and recommendations for maintaining and improving safety standards in healthcare settings.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
1.1 System, policies and procedure for communicating information on health and safety in
health and social care. ............................................................................................................1
1.2 The responsibility in specific health and social care workplace for management...........4
3.3 Own contribution to placing the health and safety needs of individuals..........................5
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
1.3 Analyse the proprieties of health and safety for a health and social care work place. ....6
2.4 Impact of non-compliance with health and safety legislation..........................................7
2.2 Affect of single aspect of health and safety policy on health and social care practice and its
customers................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Ways by which health and safety polices are monitored and reviewed...........................9
2.1 Information from risk assessments informs care planning for individuals and
organisational decision making............................................................................................10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
2.3 Dilemmas encountered in context to implementing systems and policies for health, safety
and security...........................................................................................................................12
3.2 Health and safety practices promoting positive and healthy practices...........................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
In this modern scenario health and safety considered as the most essential element of
society. Each individual is concern about their own safety and security in order to living a
comfortable and easy life style. Some organisations are set up for providing benefits and
satisfaction to their stakeholders who are involved in business and their basic purpose is to
providing high quality services and products to people rather than earning high amount of profit.
Health and safety within a health care sector is very much essential as to ensure about safety of
their staff members or other people that they are safe and not get hurt by any thing or object. The
present report is based on different case studies scenarios in which various issues are discussed
in detailed manner (Alexander, Kruszewski and Webster, 2012). The first case study is based on
Mr John who has been employed as a care home manager in Newham London. The second case
study is based on Mr Sam who severe from Apraxia in the age of 42. he has been categorised as
a suffering from major diseases Mania, under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. In this report
various rules, legislations and risks will also be discussed in detail manner.
TASK 1
1.1 System, policies and procedure for communicating information on health and safety in health
and social care.
In this modern era each health and social care centres are focussed on establishing an
effective communication channel within the firm in order to transforming data and information
through one place to another for rendering high quality and best services to their significant
customers and clients. firms adopt various types of systems, policies and procedures to
communicate required data and information to their staff people. It is essential to provide their
proper training to their employees, how to react on the situation of emergency. Organisations are
focused on creating an effective culture and environment that promotes a standardised set of
legislations and regulations for whole organisation and its activities. System, policies and
procedures are linked with each other as these are effective in implementing a communication
channel within the organisation (Badri, Nadeau and Gbodossou, 2012). There are various risk
which are faced by health and social care in which some are evaluated as under:
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Concept of risk: This can be considered as the uncertain factor which is known as the probability
of injury, damage, threat, liability and loss which are arises through any kind of internal or
external factors.
Risk of safety and security: In today's scenario large number of people re mainly concern on
getting safety and security in order to living comfortable life without facing any kind of issue and
problems. Health and safety industry ensure their clients and customers about their safety and
security, so large number of people are moving towards health care in order to satisfying their
needs and wants (Eakin, Champoux and MacEachen, 2010).
Zero risk can be described as a tendency to prefer the complete elimination of a risk at
the situation when alternative options create a high reduction in overall risk. Individual and
property risk may occurs in every condition. These are arises through fire, lightning, aircraft
damage, explosion, imposition, terrorism, storm, cyclone, typhoon etc. it is required for each
individual to make proper assessment of resolving such kind of issues in order to gaining a
comfortable and safe life.
Public liability: It is the most effective part of the law of tort that concern on civil
wrongs. An injured part can easily sues the respondent who are in the form of owner or occupier
under the common law that are based on negligence or damage. These claims are helpful in
successfully representing that the owner was responsible for an injury. In this various elements
are involved such as restraints, hazard, prevention for accident, first aid, protection from harm
and security etc.
Systems, policies and procedures for communicating information: There are large
number of current procedures and also some policies for the purpose of communicating the data
and information that are related to the health and safety in social and health care work place.
Policies and procedures are explained through proper per-formas in which each and every detail
about organisational rules and policies are explained, which are required to performed by each
and every employee of firm.
Training: In the sector of health and social care it is required for each firm to provide an
effective training session in order to developing skills and ability of employees so that they are
able to face complex situations at work place. Organisations are widely concern on managing
organisational culture in respect to performing all task in effective and efficient manner. In
health and social care firms apply various media for exchanging data and information from one
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department to another. It is necessary for firm to maintain the record of clients in respect to
rendering them effective and potential services, so that there needs can be satisfied. Complaint
handling needs to be well managed in order to providing quick response of customers request.
Some important legislations that helps in providing support to the health and safety care at
work place in which some are described as under:
Health and Safety regulations 1981: This also known as First Aid legislation, it is
required for manager or higher authority to provide appropriate information, equipment and
facilities to their staff people and ensure them about safety and security at work place. It is
essential to provide them with training and risk assessment measures so that their knowledge
base broadens. This feature will carry a positive impact on the manner health and safety practices
are being carried out in the institution. The knowledge and confidence which can be availed
through training can help in forming contingency plans to deal with potential losses which might
arise in care centre. It is important that the staff members needs to aware about the proper
arrangement of the facility of first aid. Relation to the case study, being a manager it is duty to
conform with this legislation so that so that health and safety practices in the institution could be
promoted.
Health and safety at work act 1974: This can be considered as the most effective act
which is related with the problem that are faced by people at work place such as welfare, health
and safety. According to this act organisational employees needs to have normal obligation of
taking care of each other and also cooperate with the rules and regulations that are assembled by
manger or higher authority.
Management of Health and Safety at the work regulations 1999: In this act, the
managers need to be carry out the recoding of important or necessary findings and also risk
assessment. This also is related to employers in context to making all the arrangements in order
to executing the analysis of health and safety. In this the manager give the training facilities to its
staff members and also motivate them to work in a team by sharing same working environment.
Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation 1995: This act is apply on various
events such as deaths or injuries which are arises from accidents, instances of illness or disease
or dangerous occurrences. They give information which covers the effectiveness of the health
and safety legislation and the performance of health and safety of various section of industry.
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Control of substances Hazardous to health 2002: This is most popular legislation which
is widely applied by organisations in respect to provide a specific framework to protect people at
work place in against to health risk through hazardous substances.
Manual handling operations regulation 1992: The regulation consist manual handling
which is based on any transporting and supporting of a load such as lifting, pushing, putting
down, pulling, carrying and moving there of are involved which are applying through bodily and
hand forces.
1.2 The responsibility in specific health and social care workplace for management.
The basic purpose of health care sector is to providing high quality and quick services
and products to their potential clients, so that they can feel satisfied. In an organisation manager
and higher authority plays most important role in establishing effective link among structure,
procedure and responsibilities in order to transforming data and information through effective
communication channel. NHS is the most popular sector in United Kingdom and focused on
providing beneficial services to their clients (Geldart and et. al., 2010). In an organisation
employer and employees work together for reducing risk that has huge impact on organisational
performance and productivity. There are various responsibilities which are performed by
management within the firm, some are described as under: Monitoring and evaluating processes: This can be considered as the most important duty
of manager and higher authority to manage organisational work so that goals and targets
can be attained in well planned manner. Manager are responsible for all task that are held
at work place and provide proper assistance to their employees in order to carry out
business activities in systematic manner. Risk management: It is required for each firm to manage risk so that firm can attain
competitive advantage at market place. Managers focused on generating some backup
plans in respect to resolving issues and conflicts that are arises at work place. Auditing and inspecting: In the heath and safety sector it is required for management to
do auditing in respect to analysing the performance of employees, so that effective
services can be provided to their potential customers. With the help of inspecting and
auditing manager get to know about the strength and weakness of employees and provide
them proper training for overcome with their weaknesses (Hohnen and Hasle, 2011).
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 Health and safety policy: It is the major responsibility of management department to
declare their policies in each and every department of firm so that every individual can
aware about their policies which helps in providing benefits at work place. Higher
authority ensure their employees about the safety and security at work place. Fire drills: It can be considered as an effective method of which is required to perform
by each business organisation as practising how a building or area would be affected in
some dangerous events such as fire or many other emergencies.
 First Aid: It can be described in the form of care that is given to a sick or injured person
as a prior treatment in order to providing relief from injury, this type of treatment are
provided by medically trained persons.
Briefly stating the duties and responsibilities of workers in a health and social care setting
through a chart.
(Source: Goals of workers in healthcare setting, 2017)
3.3 Own contribution to placing the health and safety needs of individuals
NHS is organisation concerned with health care sector. Organisation implement some
strategies in order to give safety for individuals . NHS issues some guide in the workplace for
the protection of individual life, such as non smoking policy at workplace, keep cleaning the
premises of workplace to protect from any disease to the individual life. Management of NHS
also issue guideline for not to intake drug, alcohol and any type of beverage which are
hazardous to health of individuals. Management of NHS give written description about the
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Illustration 1: Goals of workers in healthcare setting

process to protect individuals from any type of injuries. These written prescription aids to
controls various type of risk and disease which able to cure individuals. NHS implement Various
types of reports which helps to diagnosis of different type of disease and various issues and apply
various consultant to asses the affected individuals. Healthcare organisation provide various type
of protective measures to protect life of individuals which are based on various assessment done
by the NHS. Management of NHS is issues guideline for the people to keep clean their
surroundings in order to maintain hygienics for health of people living living in that certain area.
It mainly focus on to keep clean the area so that any hazardous conditions will not happen on
platform premises.
TASK 2
1.3 Analyse the proprieties of health and safety for a health and social care work place.
In the sector of health and social care safety and security are the major aspect which are
needs to be performed by manager or management in order to ensure their employees about
security. Health and safety care firms are using various properties in order to providing
satisfactory services to their clients who are willing to taking advantage of offered services in
less price. The health care properties are very much effective in serving high quality and needed
services to people in which some properties are evaluated as under:
 It is necessary for health care organisation to use various safety measures in respect to
provident high rage of safety to their patients, so that they could not get affected by any
objectives.
 Firm needs to apply some walking aids such as lift, wheelchair in order to providing
comfortable services to users. This also helps in rendering comfortable services to the
people who are not able to walk.
 It is necessary for an organisation is to maintain proper arrangement of those equipments
which are used in order to giving the medical treatment to the service users or clients.
 For the adult people who are having some issues related with neurological, give them
proper treatments with the help of some machineries which are helpful in providing
radioactive substances in order to give them best treatment (Lee, Mahendra and Alvarez,
2010).
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 Organisation needs to use some safety measures such as door locks, cameras, gates and
alarm, so that proper services can be provided to the people who are suffering from some
mental or physical issues.
 Health care required to use some maintenance measures such as temperature control,
ventilation, building consequences of malfunction etc.
The provision related to the training for staff members which give the health care services
for the users is also a priority for assuring the safety and health to the service users. It is
necessary that staff members should be communicate with service users and also give all the
medical facilities to the service users. It is important that the workers should have the good and
formal qualification in the safety and health process. The management provides the training to
the staff members related to the handling service users, first aid and also related to using the
machineries.
2.4 Impact of non-compliance with health and safety legislation
The responsibility of any organisation is not to restrict the towards the earning benefits and
profits to ensure sustainability. Management of NHS need requirement at large scale to ensure
the duties of staffs in organisation premises. Organisation implement various types of strategies
which help to minimise the risk which are associated with the setting of organisation. These
strategies also help to implement some safety measures for the organisation. It is very much
considerable to analyses the risk of organisation. Resolution of legal complain it also considered
by management or organisation. Management of NHS puts its efforts to ensure the people that
organisation is responsible to perform their duty in order to gain trust of people and makes
perfect treatment to the people.
Mr John has employed as a manager of care home and having various responsibility to
manager organisational work in effective manner. During the inspection various tripping hazards
found such as an electrical cable trailing across a step and an untidy storeroom which are
regularly accessed through staff to obtain items like as food items, toilet paper and cleaning
items were kept by firm. T is required for care home to apply some legislation at work place in
order to providing satisfactory services to their clients. When some health related compliances
are not followed in a proper manner through the organisation related to the health care, risk of
service users, patients and also staff members being harmed and injured becomes the high
(Salvendy, 2012). The service users will be expose to some types of hazard and also harm and on
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the other hand the non- compliance related to the safety procedures will be keep at users safety
level to lower level.
Non-compliance can be considered as a failure to act in accordance with any kind of wish
or command. In the sector of health and social care the term non-compliance consist as a
commonly applied approach which is mainly used in regard to a patient who does not take an
effective and prescribed treatment or medication. A person who who go through with the
condition of non-compliance is called as non-compliant. There are various implication of non-
compliance in which some are evaluated as below: Financial: Some time due to bad financial condition people are not able to taking
effective treatment from hospitals, in this type of situation health and social care sector
are concern on rendering free and effective services to their potential customers. Legal: Due to less awareness about the legislation and laws people are not feeling
comfortable for taking advantage of offered products and services of health and social
care department. So it is required for firm to describe all policies to their employees in
respect to taking effective benefits in conflict situation. Moral: The moral duty of staff people of health and social care sector to provide fast and
quality services to patients in respect to improving their conditions. Physical: In the sector of health and social care people want more attention in regards to
their bad condition, so it is required for firm or its higher authority to assign people for
safety and security of each patients. Staff people needs to take regular check-up round in
order to identifying the needs and wants of clients.
 Health: Organisation needs to focused on providing best and high quality health
treatment to their potential patients in respect to making effective improvement in their
situations.
2.2 Affect of single aspect of health and safety policy on health and social care practice and its
customers
The Provisions related to the demonstration and also training of performing the activities
in a manner that it secures the injuries and also risk is a necessary part of the policies related to
the safety and health in an organisation . The manager of health care organisation provides the
training to staff members in order to enhancing their knowledge and capabilities on the practices
of safety and health. They are also catered with induction training which assist employees in
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making patients familiar with the manner functions are carried out within business. It is
necessary for the management is to apply the healthy and safety policies at the work place in an
effective and also systematic manner.
Example- In health care organisation, there is a joining of new employees and that person
will not receive any kind of training that how to do the activities and operate the equipments and
machineries, so in this context it is necessary for manager to provide training to new employees
and also give them information about the machineries and also some equipments. So from this
that person can operate them in a safe manner.
It is necessary that staff members should be able to do their duties and also
responsibilities in order to increase the safety and health of employees and also service users.
Management of Health and Safety at the work regulations 1999 is widely concern on
providing effective training to their staff people in order to manage organisational work in
effective and efficient manner. As per this act firm is able to rendering fast and well managed
products and services to their potential clients who are facing any kind of issue at work place.
This also helps in facing all the issues and conflicts that are arises at work place.
3.1 Ways by which health and safety polices are monitored and reviewed
Safety and security is the most essential element in humans life, each individual is
focused on gaining high range of safety and security in respect living comfortable life. As a
manager of Care home in London Mr John have to focused on safety and security of employees
at work in respect to rendering high quality and satisfactory services to their clients who are very
much willing to taking advantage of services. There are various ways through which health and
safety practices are monitored and reviewed, in which some are described as under:
Audit of risk:It is required for organisational manager to audit the risk which are having vast
impact on growth and success of firm. Risk are needs to be reduced through implementing
proper measures (Stone And et. al., 2014).
Review of practices: In health care sector growth and success is based on practical practices and
it is necessary for higher authority or experienced people to taking active review of practices
which are provided to new employees at work place. This is beneficial for resolving ant kind of
issue which has impact on performance of firm.
Confidentiality: It is required for firm to ensure their customers about safety and security of their
personal data and information. Health and social care is widely concern on keeping data and
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