Analyzing Health & Safety: A Risk Assessment Report for Care Homes

This report addresses health, safety, and protection issues within a residential care home setting, focusing on risk assessment and management. It explores the potential causes and management of aggressive behavior exhibited by service users, emphasizing the importance of reporting incidents and following established procedures. The report includes a risk assessment form that identifies hazards such as trips and falls, fire hazards, and contamination risks, outlining potential harm to residents and staff, and suggesting control measures to minimize these risks. The assessment covers aspects like maintaining clear pathways, ensuring proper fire safety protocols, and implementing timely waste disposal practices. The report underscores the necessity of a proactive approach to health and safety to protect both residents and care workers within the residential environment. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and past papers to help students.

HEALTH SAFETY AND
PROTECTION ISSUES RISK
ASSESSMENT

Table of Contents
1. Service users sometimes exhibit aggressive behaviour. Explain some of the
potential causes of this...........................................................................................................3
2. Care workers must manage aggressive behaviour. How can this be done?.......................3
3. When incidents of aggressive behaviour occur care workers must follow
procedures and report events. What should happen in this process and what
content should be in a report?................................................................................................3
Risk Assessment Form.....................................................................................................................4

1. Service users sometimes exhibit aggressive behaviour. Explain some of the potential causes
of this.
An aggressive behaviour can generally cause the physical as well as the emotional harms
to others. It can particularly range from verbal abuse to the physical abuse. Sometimes, it can
also involves the harming the personal property also. Having an aggressive behaviour generally
violates the social boundaries. So it is quite essential to understand the cause of an aggressive
behaviour. This can specifically aid an individual address it. The potential cause of having an
aggressive behaviour such as mental health, relationships with others, the family structure, the
physical health as well as the societal or the socio-economic factors.
2. Care workers must manage aggressive behaviour. How can this be done?
The management of the aggressive behaviours can be done by expressing respect as well
as empathy at all the times. To reduce the aggressive behaviour, care workers must use the verbal
as well as non-verbal skills to aid the people avoid or manages the particular situation. The care
workers must encourage the people to recognize the people's own trigger points. The care
workers must contains a close relationship with the people and they are able to visualize the
changes in their mood or behaviour.
3. When incidents of aggressive behaviour occur care workers must follow procedures and report
events. What should happen in this process and what content should be in a report?
The incidence of aggressive behaviours can occurs, the care workers must report the case
as this can aid them to decrease the number of cases of aggression. The procedures which are
generally followed in this process can specifically aid to review the risk assessment. In this, the
robust reporting is particularly supported because it can aid to found the specific measures which
will protect the workers in the future prospect. The content which is included in the report such
as it must involves the date, time, location as well as the circumstances which particularly
surrounds the occurrence of incidence. In this, if there involves the witness of the incidence then
their mobile numbers are must be included or reported in the report.

Risk Assessment Form.
List hazards
identified.
List groups
of people at
risk.
Describe how
these people
might be
harmed.
State the
seriousness of
possible harm in
terms of High/
Medium/Low.
Describe the
control
measures
needed to
minimise risk.
Trips and falls Residents The building is
generally
involves the 2
floors along with
18 stairs
Medium and
High.
Keep the walking
areas clear from
obstacles or
barriers.
Fire hazards Residents and all
the staff.
The area of the
kitchen is quite
packed and no
movement is
available. In
addition to this,
the staff of
particular area is
not devoted
towards their
duties as it is their
duty to ensure
about all the
policies and
procedures to
reduce the
possibility of fire
High. Keep the kitchen
area more
spacious so that
movement can be
done.

hazards.
Contamination All staff as well
as residents.
Leaving of
rubbish or
garbage. Not
dispose on time
can leads to
spread
contamination
among all the
members or
residents.
High Timely dispose
off the garbage or
rubbish bags in
the garbage box.
Blockage of
pathways and
corridors.
All the staff
members and
residents.
The external
doors are for the
fire exists and are
always left
unlocked.
High The doors must
be opened always
as the hazard can
occurs any time.