Report on Health and Safety in Health & Social Care Workplace-Unit 3

This report provides a comprehensive overview of health and safety in the health and social care workplace. It begins by reviewing relevant policies and processes for communicating information, referencing key legislation such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Food Safety Act 1990. The report outlines the responsibilities of various stakeholders, including local bodies, national healthcare authorities, and individual professionals. It emphasizes health and safety priorities, particularly for disabled individuals, considering both individual health and safety contexts. The importance of risk assessment in decision-making is highlighted, including the implementation of modern risk management plans. An analysis of the impact of health and safety policies, such as the Health and Safety Regulation 1981, is presented, along with potential conflicts in implementation and strategies for monitoring policies. The report concludes with a discussion of personal contributions to ensuring the health and safety needs of individuals are met, emphasizing personal and professional evaluation to reduce health and safety risks. References to relevant academic sources are included to support the analysis.

Health and Safety in the
Health and Social Care
Workplace

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Review of policies and process for communicating
information
 Responsibilities in health and social care regarding the
management
 Health and Safety priorities for health and social care
workplace
 Importance of Risk assessment in decision making
related to policies.

Table of Content
 Analysis of the impact of one aspect of health and safety
policy
 Conflicts came regarding implementation of health and
safety measures
 Monitoring of the health and safety policies
 Own contribution in placing the health and safety needs
of individuals
 References

INTRODUCTION
In health and social care, health and safety is an important
things which is acknowledged by all the health care
practitioners.

Review of policies and process for communicating
information
Following are the number legislation to support this:-
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
1992
• Food Safety Act 1990

Responsibilities in health and social care regarding
the management
There are certain responsibilities which are given to local
bodies as well as national health care authority. This also
include professional who are part of the health care bodies.

Health and Safety priorities for health and social
care workplace
In the case of disabled person following are the context
needed for the health care priority.
• Individual Health Context
• Safety Context

Importance of Risk assessment in decision making
related to policies
Risk assessment includes implementation of the modern risk
managing plan and to make sure that all the hazards are
controlled properly.

Analysis of the impact of one aspect of health and
safety policy
With the health and safety regulation 1981 the employers
make sure that first aid tools are given and there is training
of it that how it can be used.

Conflicts came regarding implementation of health
and safety measures
There can be dilemma on the implication of resource, rights
to service users and variation in the priorities between the
stakeholders.

Monitoring of the health and safety policies
It is the crucial part of the management to monitor and
review the policies and this is required so that cost moral
and legal legislation can be reviewed.

Own contribution in placing the health and safety
needs of individuals
There has to be personal and professional evaluation and
with this my action will be done so that risks related to
health and safety is reduced.

REFERENCES
Lee, J., Mahendra, S and Alvarez, P. J., 2010.
Nanomaterials in the construction industry: a review of
their applications and environmental health and safety
considerations. ACS nano. 4(7). pp.3580-3590.
Quinlan, M., Bohle, P and Lamm, F., 2010. Managing
occupational health and safety. Palgrave Macmillan.
Katz, M. H., 2010. Future of the safety net under health
reform. Jama. 304(6). pp.679-680.

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