Importance of Health and Safety in the Workplace: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the critical importance of health and safety in the workplace, specifically within the context of health and social care. It begins by outlining relevant acts, policies, and procedures, including the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992, and RIDDOR. The report emphasizes the responsibilities of employers and employees in ensuring a safe environment. It then examines the case of Connor Sparrowhawk, discussing the impact of risk assessments, policy implications, and the effects of non-compliance with RIDDOR. The report also addresses dilemmas related to patient care and the need for continuous monitoring and review of health and safety policies. Furthermore, it highlights the priorities for health and safety, including individual health, safety of disabled persons, cleanliness, food safety, and staff training. The report concludes by underscoring the significance of a proactive approach to health and safety management in healthcare settings.

Running head: Importance of safety 1
Importance of safety at Workplace

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Task 1..........................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Acts, policies and procedure at my workplace...................................................................................4
1.2 Assessing the responsibilities............................................................................................................7
1.3 Priorities for the safety of health at my workplace...........................................................................10
Task 2........................................................................................................................................................12
2.1 Information from risk assessments carried out for Connor Sparrowhawk.......................................12
2.2 impact of risk assessment policy......................................................................................................14
2.3 The effect of non-compliance with RIDDOR..................................................................................16
2.4 dilemmas.........................................................................................................................................18
Task 3........................................................................................................................................................20
3.1 monitoring and reviewing of health and safety policies...................................................................20
3.2 policies and practice........................................................................................................................22
3.3 Contributions...................................................................................................................................24
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................25
References.................................................................................................................................................26

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Introduction
Health is the most vital concern for human being and safety is inside linked to the
health services. Health and safety at workplace is foremost for every organization.
Improper managed health and safety programs may lead organization in serious long term
consequences. It is the moral responsibility of employers to protect health and safety of
their employees (Burke, Clarke and Cooper, 2011). Various kinds of laws and policies will
be reflected in the report in the context of health and safety at work place. As per case
study of Connor Sparrow hawk, the influence of risk assessment on cornor and his family
will be discussed in the report. Dilemmas related to Connor’s care at Slade House will be
defined in adequate manner. The special consideration will be reflected to recognize the
risk associated. The importance of continuous monitor and implement of health and safety
legislation for the health and social care workplace will be reflected in the report.

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Task 1
1.1 Acts, policies and procedure at my workplace
There are various policies and procedure for communicating information regarding health and
safety in the workplace of health and social care. Safety is an integral part in the health care
organization that is why it is indispensable to have the effective policies procedure so that the
patient can be secured and ensured that they would be treated under proper treatment. Health
and safety at work act 1974
A broad range of concern regarding heath, safety and welfare has been comprised under
this act. As per this act, the employees of the health and special care are responsible to give
proper care to the patient.
Management of health and safety at work regulations 1992
This act is the outcome of the refining act of health and safety at work act 1974 and this
act necessitate employers to carry out the risk assessment and help to recording a noteworthy
finding. It facilitates to make arrangements for executing the health and safety measures, to
provide the concise information regarding health and safety.
Health and safety regulations 1981
The main concern of this act to make sure that the all relevant first aid equipments should
be available at workplace. Qualified first aiders must present at the place of my work and
employees of the organization must aware about the first aid arrangements.
Food safety act 1990, food safety regulations 1995 and food and safety regulations 1995

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These acts are focused on the food procedure at the health and social care at my work place. It
comprises the services of food, cooking procedure and the requirement of registration for food
businesses. As per these regulations the local authorities are liable to enforcement through
environmental health standards. The local standard agency can take interventions if local
authorities are unable to meet the requirement of these acts.
Figure 1: model of health and social care system
Source: (Christian, et. al., 2009).
The above mentioned health and safety regulation has been employed in the health and social
care workplace. There are various departments in UK health care organization and this
department is responsible to maintain the model that is given above. The Reporting of Injuries,
Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation (RIDDOR) was executed in 2013 which
involved the provision for the organization of health and safety to how to follow the reporting of
injuries and accidents that take place at the work place. As per the RIDDOR procedure, the data

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of entire occurred injuries and accidents should be recorded in an appropriate and systematic
manner and if severe injury or accidents are happened that should be informed to the pertinent
management personnel of the organization. The graphical sign boards should be considered at
the workplace because it attracts the attention of an individual quickly and also be utilized to
convey the message language which will be helpful for those people who are unable to
understand the English language.

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1.2 Assessing the responsibilities
Health and safety at my workplace is planned by the institutions of government as well
as non-government institutions in UK. It has been analyzed that the government of UK has the
heal care system and public health system. In this system, the responsibilities of the health and
care are distinguished from local authorities to public health system. NHS commissioning board,
service taker and provider, clinical commissioning board and evaluating system is involved in
this system which has different responsibilities. The system is considered as the integrated
system in which all organization has liability of health and care at workplace. The role of
management is vital in the organization in the context of health and safety. It involves adequate
use of techniques so that the hazards and obstacles can be removed from the organization with
proper evaluation. The management of the health and safety workplace is responsible to control
the risk and it can be controlled with the help of risk assessment. Thus, the responsibilities of the
management of health and safety at workplace can be comprised in the policy, organizing,
planning and implementation.

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Figure 2: key elements of H&S System
Source: (Gail, Audrey & Emily, 2013).
In the context of initial element, it has been analyzed that work can give positive as well
negative contribution to individual health. That is why; it is required for the management of the
health care organization to show that they are concerned not only for preventing accidents and ill
health but also for positive health promotion. The policy sets the way of direction for health and
safety, but the organization are required to build the robust environment for management activity
and provide the responsibilities and duties in detail manner which may contribute to improve the
performance of an individual (Costa and Vieira, 2010).
In the second element, planning, measuring and reviewing are the responsibilities of the
management to reduce the risk at work place. Planning should be made as per taking
consideration of entire team of health care home along with patients. It is the major responsibility

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of the management to plan in adequate way and coordinate the various activities at different level
(HSE, 2015).
In the context of measuring performance, two kind of system are required such as active system
which monitor the design and development of operations management and another one is
reactive system which monitor accidents, ill, health injury and other health related evidence
(Dollard and Bakker, 2010).
The auditing process includes the collection of information regarding health and safety
management system and making judgments about its performance. Auditing is an important
element of the health and safety system. It has been analyzed that organization of the health and
care are needed to manage the health and safety on daily basis. There are three information
sources in which the auditors can gather the information that is interviewing individuals,
examining documents and visual observation. It is the responsibility of the organization to make
ensure that the audit is perceived as the vital management tool and should be taken in serious
way by every level of management (Geldart, et. al., 2010).
It has been analyzed that all the stakeholders of the health care organization involving
doctors, nurses, staffs, patient, partners, supervisor and visitors all are responsible for following
the measurements of health and safety that have been executed in the organization. The entire
team of the health and social care are anticipated to follow the rules of safety that are executed
and provide the carry to preserve the safety at the organization (Hasle and Limborg, 2006).

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1.3 Priorities for the safety of health at my workplace
The priorities of H&S are dependent on the nature of the health and safety workplace. It is vital
for the organization to keep concerned about the health and safety at workplace that is why there
are required to do some steps for providing efficient services of a specific health and social care
home. In the context of individual health, the priorities should be involved in the efficient
manner. At first stage, it is required to the employees of the organization to understand the
behaviour of the patient. After that the reason behind this behaviour should be recognized by the
organization. Treatment should be implemented after analyzing the condition of the patient. It
should be the priority of management of the care home to provide fast treatment to a most
vulnerable position (Law, et. al., 2011). The equipments of the health care home should be
inspected in conjunction with lifting operations and lifting equipment regulations 1998. The
working duty of the staff and the manager of the organization should be fixed at the time of
emergency and the availability of the staff should be presented 24*7 and it is the responsibility of
the management to set the time schedule appropriately. In the context of individual safety, it
should be the priority to secure the disabled person such secured place where risky electric lines
not present. Cleanliness and food safety should be considered on priority because unhygienic
food and place may lead people in severe health diseases. Safety aids should be implemented in
the health and safety organization such as walking aids, wheelchair and hoist (McNamara et. al.,
2017). Along with that security system should be considered such as door lock system, cameras,
alarms, patrol. The environment of the health and social care workplace should be ventilated and
temperature control. Training should be given to all employees with Manual Handling
Operations Regulations 1992. Training should be given in adequate manner to the entire staff
such as infection control. There are so many service users in the health care organization and

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everyone has its own nature that is why, it is required to cover the procedure in the training of
how to handle the different nature person. As per Probst and Estrada, (2010), the maintenance of
paper of the electronic equipment which is utilized o provide medical treatments to the service
users can be looked as one of the upper priority activities. The adults, who have issues regarding
neurological, should be given the treatment from those machines which is utilized radioactive
substances for treatment.

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Task 2
This task will cover the information as per case study of Connor Sparrow hawk. An 18 year old
Connor Sparrow hawk was admitted to Slade House, an NHS assessment and treatment unit in
Oxfordshire. He has found unconscious and in the bath at Slade House and died.
2.1 Information from risk assessments carried out for Connor Sparrowhawk
Risk assessment is the technique of looking for the information towards the recognition
of particular risk in a service user (in the case of Connor Sparrowhawk) which is reliable on the
age, habits of the patient, position of diseases as well as vulnerability. Risk assessment comprises
the five stages such as detection of hazards, potential harshness of harm resulting from each
hazard, measurement of degree of risk, managing the risk and monitoring the risk (Suter II,
2016).
If the structure of risk assessment is not appropriate then the policies regarding health and safety
could never be executed or structured in a proper way. The information of risk assessment is
considered to be noteworthy in the context of care planning in term of the service users and
organizational conclusion making (Wijnhoven, et. al., 2009). The major aim of care planning is
to make sure about the safety elements within an organization and keep focus on maximizing the
well being. The policy of risk management is the institution for making decision in term of Slade
House along with the service providers. The information and knowledge of risk assessment can
construct the adequate environment regarding health and safety. It is required for the Slade
House to make amendments in their fixed policy that will compel the professionals of healthcare
professionals in taking fast action (Shepard, et. al., 2014).

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In the case of Connor Sparrow hawk,to reduce the risk of death and permanent disability,
Slade house should change the health and safety policy and the timing schedule of the employees
so that in case of emergency some of employees are presented at workplace. Ithas been analyzed
that if the risk assessment was done in an appropriate manner, the life of Connor could have been
saved. The NHS practices should be implemented the risk assessment process because it would
be helpful to in the context of organizational decision making process. The gathered information
with the help of risk assessment can be facilitated to take the decision about what kind of
services are required to give the patient (Zanko and Dawson, 2012).

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2.2 impact of risk assessment policy
Risk assessment is major element in the context of health and safety policies because it
has the effective influence on the practices of my workplace as well as the users. It has been
evaluated by case study that the death of Corron occurred due to lack of risk assessment facility.
There are five major elements in the risk assessment. The information of risk assessment assists
in conducting plans to manage the risk and reduce the risk within an organization (Zohar, 2010).
With the help of efficient knowledge of risk assessment, the potential action can be taken in an
appropriate manner. It has been analyzed that the risk is a probability of the damage, accident,
liability loss and many more that may be avoided by taking pre-emptive actions. Risk
management for healthcare organization can be explained as a systematized effort to recognize,
assess and decrease the risk within an organization. the review of its provides the concise
material in the risk management for healthcare professional to quickly reduce the risk by
applying risk management and execute them in the place where it requires most. The care team
and own practices defines that due to not giving proper attention to the element of risk
assessment even at very small stage have able to build such blunders and negative results in the
context of health of people.
The impact of risk assessment at the Slade House on Connor and his family is not good. Due to
not having proper procedure and ignorance, a young boy has to lose his life and his family lost
their child. It has been found that a senior psychiatrist failed to carry out any risk assessments on
an epileptic teenager. That is why it is required for the Slade house to recognize the risk in wider
manner so that the one more Connor does not lose his life due to lack of knowledge about the
risks. The Slade House should give proper attention to the each patient of health and safety care
home. With the help of risk assessment, the Slade House needs to find out the problems and they

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can think about the certain actions that can be the reason of violent responses. It is vital to find
the potential problems to record the various kinds of aggressive and violent incidents, it can be
possible that someof them are not considered as the injury case but these data may be facilitated
to find the issues within an organization (Agnew, 2004). Staffs of Sladon house should be
encouraged to report these kinds of incidents. Training facilitates the staff in case of handling the
aggressive patient and who has epileptic and had autistic traits.

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2.3 The effect of non-compliance with RIDDOR
RIDDOR stands for The Reporting of Injuries, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences
Regulation which was proposed in 2013 and involved the provision for the for the health care
home to follow the reporting of accidents and injuries that happened in my workplace. RIDDOR
forces to organization related to health care to keep document of occurred injuries at workplace
in a systematic manner. These reports should be reported to the higher authority of the Slade
House. It has been found that the care workers face various types of moral dilemmas while
ensuring the health and safety to the service users. Due to non-compliance of RIDDOR in Slade
house, the staff of the organization as well as the service users has to suffer adversely as they did
not get proper report about the incident. It is the major cause of increasing accident in the Slade
house. It has been analyzed that the report must be received within 10 days of the incident.
RIDDOR puts responsibilities as well as duties on employer, the staff of the organization and the
self- employed to report specific serious workplace incidents, diseases of occupational and
specific terrible hazards (Charleson, 2012). The importance of RIDDOR in health and safety
care home is playing a vital role because reporting certain incident or accidents are considered as
the legal requirement. The enforcing authorities are being reported about the death, injuries,
dangerous occurrence and occupational diseases, so the organization can recognize the reason
behind raising the risk. A record of incident covered by RIDDOR is very important at Slade
house. It makes ensure that you gather sufficient information to permit the organization to
manage health and safety risks. This information is considered as the valuable management tool
that can be utilized to help risk assessment along with that it would be helpful to enhance
solutions to potential risks (Dolgoff, Harrington and Loewendery, 2011). The effect of non-
compliance of RIDDOR at Slade House is quiet adverse and the goodwill of the organization get

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impacted in worst manner in-front of other viewers because the recent example of death due to
non-compliance of RIDDOR can be seen.

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2.4 dilemmas
It can be expected to face the dilemmas and the objections when an organization is ready
to implement the new procedures and polices involving health and social services. The possible
dilemmas that are faced by the organization are elaborated below:
Health and safety risk at supply chain
There are various methods related to health and safety as per national law for ensuring workplace
safety but the third party is not ready to accept it and raise the conflict which may the reason of
various accidents within an organization.
Maintenance of high technology
Health care organization such as NHS trust is belief to develop the new technology and adopt
nee environment. The main focus of the trust is on providing the efficient quality to the service
users. To develop the latest technology, organizations are required to invest more and pay to
extra tax which may lead them under debt condition.
High level of corruptions
High level of corruption can be the reason of dilemmas in the organization because due to high
level of corruption, organization cannot implement the policies and procedure in an efficient
manner. Bribes are the instance of corruption which allows people to get treated in place of
needy people.
It has been evaluated that the organization need to recognize the various priorities as per
the condition of health and safety among the various stakeholders of the organization can be
observed as an efficient method will act within an organization as a proactive method to decrease

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the dilemmas that could raise while executing the new system (Glaister, Brown and Eby, 2000).
For instance, the service users expect the higher requirements regarding safety for them to
prevent themselves from hazards that could occur to them in the health care organization and
they made expectation in their mind that get higher security from them. On the other hand the
employees who connect with organization can expect a health working environment that has less
risk of health and safety and they want to utilize the machines to enhance the safety (Goetze,
2011). It is vital for the organization to keep focus on risk benefit analysis o compares the risk
and benefits that employee as well as the service users can get from implemented process and it
is essential to make them aware about their protection due to implement the strategy. This can be
facilitated to them to keep focus on the work and decrease the issue which may contribute to
riseas dilemmas that arise due to miscommunication.

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Task 3
3.1 monitoring and reviewing of health and safety policies
For getting effective result, health and safety policies need to be proper implemented and
monitors in the organization. The evaluation of these polices and procedure can be done by
following the below mentioned criteria:
Audit of risk
It has been evaluated that the audit of risk and risk assessment can be the efficient method to
review the health and safety system in the organization and to monitor the various activities
within healthcare. In the context of audit of risks, a professional of this will be assessing the
current on-going situation of the organization and recognize the existing risk within an
organization (Graham and Steven, 2008).
Review of practices
The practices can be evaluated by applying two kind of review of practices such as proactive
reviewing and active reviewing. Proactive reviewing is done before raise the accidents and safety
audit is needed for this (Grinnell and Yvonne, 2008). On contrast reactive reviewing refers the
examining events after when they happened. It is the learning after incidents.
Maintenance of the safe environment
As it has been discussed that the employee, service user and employee are required safety
environment and the implemented policies and procedures can be monitored to maintain the safe
environment at my workplace (Henderson, 2005). It can be done with the help of inspection and

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auditing at my workplace by taking help of management tool such as management information
system.
Learning from experiences
It has been analyzed that there are so many incidents occurred regarding health and safety
at health care home. It is vital for the health care home to evaluate the incident and take initiate
step to prevent them so that the dilemmas could not take place in the organization in repetitive
manner.
Updating of policies and procedures
The implemented policies and procedures should be updated time to time for increasing
the care planning at my work place. Care planning is able to enhance the wellbeing of
theemployees while meeting the needs of them. It can be done by amplifying the security system
while implementing the policies and procedures at my work place.
Review the current procedures
As per Lenconioni, (2007), another method of reviewing the practices and procedure at
my workplace is by reviewing the customers and employee from their experience regarding
current health and safety systems. The employee and the customers are more aware about the
occurred incident within an organization and they can tell adequately about the contributions of
health and safety polices to save the accidents. The review of them can be used to review the
current procedures and will be helpful to make amendments in them for future.

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3.2 policies and practice
It has been analyzed that the effectiveness of health and safety policies is depending on
the promotion. There are number of factors are observed while promoting the policies and
procedures. These factors can be organizational environment, the promotion of healthy lifestyles
and non-occupational factors (Cox, 2014). Safety Climate Tool is used to evaluate the practices
and provides a characteristic insight into the safety culture of organization. The safety tool
provides an objective to do the measurement of safety culture for the healthcare organization.
Safety climate is the apparent value placed on safety in an organization at a certain point in time
(Elliott, Hatton and Emerson, 2003). Value, opinions, actions and attitudes are major factor
which may influence the perceptions and beliefs of the organization. A positive safety climate
improves the production and able to decrease the cost of insurance and compensation. It
enhances the employee safety knowledge and their motivation to behave safely. It has been
analyzed that employee perception should be effective towards organization and it improve the
employee perception and reduce the various incidents by employees. Safety Climate Tool is
comprised eight factors such as organizational commitment which define the priority given to
health and safety in the planning of organization and day to day operations and the level of both
things is operational and management level. The tool of safety is helpful to orient the behaviors
of safety and health. It is vital in the healthcare organization to keep update regarding accident
cases and other case. The tool of safety facilitates to maintain the report system about accidents.
Along with that it aids to determine the improvement within an organization by conducting
meeting between employers and managers.
Engagement is health and safety of this tool is facilitated to people to get involved in the
reporting about safety occurrence and due to willingness of people, the organization having the

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will to get learn from the safety occurrence. It maintains the cooperation between the team and
motivates them to do team work (Chaturvedi, 2006). The major feature of this tool is that it is
available in every language. It can be use with lot of ease because it provides the horizontal as
well as vertical communication channels in an efficient way; the faith of people over the tool is
more and their peers and managers. It defines that there are various stages to analyze the policies
and procedures in an efficient manner that is why it formulate them, after that analyze and keep
focus on the various activities (Verderber, 2010). The Safety Climate Tool does the investigation
of the attitude of the healthcare’s staffs as well as perceptions in vital areas regarding health and
safety while providing a guarantee for having confidentiality.
Figure 3: safety climate tool
Source: (Zohar, 2014).

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3.3 Contributions
It is a responsibility of the individuals in the health and social care systems that can be
accomplished to enhance the safety and security of themselves along with the other service users
and employees in the Healthcare home. When my own experience is evaluated, I have provided
to the Healthcare industry in amplifying health and safety of people who are receiving care at my
workplace can be highlighted. There are some people such as those service users who take
residence care at my workplace have different abilities and they are unable to perform their
activities in a different way that is safe and secure. It has been found that there are so many
service users that had to face issues while operating machines and equipment such as water
heater, and utilize of other medical accessories that they have been provided. The contribution of
mine in that scenario to guide them about the uses of latest machines and equipment and make
sure that their performance is done with health and safety. Training is an important part in the
Healthcare organization because it facilitates employee to get know about the working style at
the health care home. I contributed to train new employees and the Healthcare organization for
enhancing the health and safety of the service users and amplifying the knowledge of the
working style and the different equipments in the industry. In the context of employee benefits
my own contributions are reducing stress and improve the efficiency of workers by providing
them job satisfaction (Probst and Estrada, 2010). I have focused to collect the information
regarding health and safety and address them in a sophisticated manner so that in further
inspection my care home should not get faulted due to improper services. Along with that it is
my liability to provide regular updates on reliable issues to make aware of my staff about the
potential issues. I interacted with individuals, staff, group and agencies to know about the status
of my workplace and guide them to improve the condition of the care home.

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Conclusion
It has been concluded that the services users and the employee of the organization are
essential part of the organization when providing health care services to the service users. The
expectation of the service user is high when they visit healthcare organization therefore
maintenance of the safety in the healthcare organization are vital than other organization. It was
explores how there are various systems that have been provided by the authorities to prevent the
health and safety of the people in the organization of health care. It has been evaluated that the
risks assessment is vital in the organization to recognize the hazards. It has been analyzed that
the government of UK has the heal care system and public health system. In this system, the
responsibilities of the health and care are distinguished from local authorities to public health
system.

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