Health and Safety in Health and Social Care: A Comprehensive Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of health and safety practices within care homes. It begins by outlining policies for communicating safety information across various healthcare settings like hospitals and GP centers, emphasizing the importance of legislation such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. The report then details the responsibilities of management within care homes, highlighting the roles of organizations like the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England. It analyzes the health and safety priorities appropriate for a specific health and social care workplace, emphasizing the need for a safe and hygienic environment. The report further explores how risk assessments inform planning for individuals and organizational decisions, including the assessment of working at height hazards. It also presents the impact of health and safety policies, dilemmas in implementation, and the effects of non-compliance. Finally, the report discusses the monitoring and review of policies and practices, evaluating their effectiveness and the importance of placing the needs of individuals at the center of practice.

Health and safety in the work
place

Table of Contents
Health and safety in the work place..................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Policies for communicating information on safety in the health and social care..................1
1.2 responsibilities in Care Home for the direction of health and safety...................................2
1.3 Analysing the health and safety priorities appropriate for a specific health and social care
workplace....................................................................................................................................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
2.1 analysing the information from risk assessment informs are planning for individuals and
organisational decision ...............................................................................................................5
2.2 Presenting the impact of one aspect of health and safety policy on health and social care
practice and its customers...........................................................................................................8
2.3 Presenting how dilemmas encountered in relation to implement system and policies for
health...........................................................................................................................................9
2.4 Analyse the effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation in a health and
social care workplace................................................................................................................10
LO3................................................................................................................................................12
3.1 Explain how health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed...........12
3.2 Analyse the effectiveness of health and safety policies and practices in the workplace in
promoting a positive, healthy and safe culture..........................................................................13
3.3 Evaluate own contributions to placing the health and safety needs of individuals at the
centre of practice. ....................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

Introduction
Health and safety in the work place is necessary to be maintained as it is reasonably
practicable for safety and welfare for its employees. Policies and regulations are provided by
government to maintain safety and health of workplace. Various policies, legislation and
procedures are necessary to be followed by every business organisation to provide safety and
security to its employees. There are various systems who provides services of health and social
care. Care Home is abbreviation for Care Home and it is funded system which aims at providing
free healthcare facilitates to people of UK. Care Home is funded by tax and provides services to
needy people. This unit covers and explains about various procedures and policies of health and
safety which are implemented in different health care settings and its importance. . This unit
explains about dilemmas encountered while implementing policies of health and safety and it
also explains how safety and health practices are monitored. Effects of non-compliance of these
procedures are explained further. Responsibilities of management in Care Home for managing
health and safety in relation to organisational structures are explained further in the report unit.
LO1
1.1 Policies for communicating information on safety in the health and social care
There are various systems in health and social care settings who provides services related
to safety. Different systems in health care are hospitals, care homes, GP centres, residential
homes etc.
 GP centres aims at treating common medical conditions of people. GP centres also refer
patients to other hospitals for further treatment and medical services and even for
specialist and urgent treatments (Loeppke and et.al., 2015). GP centres focus on
providing health treatments to person and combines psychological, physical and social
aspects.
 Hospitals provides urgent and specialized treatments to people. It includes specialized
medical and staff of nursing with all medical equipments available. Hospitals also have
various range of departments such as surgery centre, emergency wards, accident case or
even special units such as cardiology (Boyle, 2015).
Different policies and legislation implemented in health and social care settings provides
rights and responsibilities to employees and customers who are in relation with these various
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settings. Safety legislation are enforced in health and social care settings as these practices aims
at promoting dignity of care and these policies and procedures support in maintaining health and
safety at work. Health and social care settings adopts to different health and safety measures so
that they can provide safety to both its patient and as well as to employees. Different legislation
for maintaining health and safety and how these policies inform health and safety at work place
are discussed as below and their importance is also given:
 Health and safety at work act, 1974: this act aims at maintaining health, safety and
security of employees at work place. Various statutory instruments has been developed
for supporting implementation of this act, this instruments also provides interface with
European legislation and regulations (Mills, 2016). Care Home aims at maintaining
health and safety of its employees and follows procedures given by this act. It is
important for maintaining safety of its employees so that employees work in safe working
environment. This act provides safety to employees by assessing risk and provides
measures for controlling risks.
 Management of health and safety at work regulations, 1999: this act aims assessing
risk regarding health and safety of people at workplace(Australia, 2016). Care Home
follows regulations and procedures given by this act and aims at maintaining safety of its
worker and employees. This act provides guidelines to assess risk factors available in
work place and to act upon identified risks and aims at reducing those risks. These
policies and procedures safeguards the rights of employees and allow them security and
safety at work place.
In order to communicate the information in well manner, it has been analysed that
through proper management of health and safety at work regulations, that provides guidelines in
order to access the risk factors at workplace. While on the other side, having enough knowledge
regarding the Health and safety Act employees can easily safe themselves.
1.2 responsibilities in Care Home for the direction of health and safety
Different policies and procedures of health and safety aims at maintaining safety and
security to its employees and workers. These legislations provide duties and responsibilities to
management of organisation or health care settings for following procedures and maintaining
safety. Care Home also follows various policies and procedures to provide health and safety to
its volunteers and employees (Loeppke and et.al., 2015). Care Home is an independent body
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which provides services of free health care to UK citizens. Care Home gets its funding from
government and taxes. Department of Health and Social Care(DHSC) provides strategic
guidelines to Care Home and various other public health and social care. DHSC is supported by
public bodies and 23 agencies.
Social and Health Care Home provides various roles and responsibilities for maintaining
health and safety at workplace for its employees. It is an independent body therefore dose not
have any specific level of management for handling its activities and operations. This bodies also
help a system in more expressive way such that they all are quite aware to make any change
related to health and safety. Various local bodies handle activities of Care Home and its different
centres. Local education and training boards of Care Home are responsible for providing
workforce planning and their training for lower level of management employees (Loeppke and
et.al., 2015). Public Health England are provided with responsibilities to manage and lead
integrated services regarding health delivery services. These legislations provide duties and
responsibilities to management of organisation or health care settings for following procedures
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Illustration 1: organisational structure of Care Home

and maintaining safety. Health education England provides training and development programs
for employees and also safeguards health and safety of employees.
Management of Health and safety: Management of Care Home follows various
procedures provided and implemented by safety acts and safeguards rights of employees. Safety
at work place can be maintained by following various provision and procedures such as safe
passageways, adequate lightning and heating, proper and safe equipments. Care Home aims at
maintaining safe and suitable work equipments and instruct about proper use of it. It also
provides guidelines regarding use of machinery and their dangerous parts (Sullivan, 2018).
Various health and safety regulations and legislations ensures total safety of its employee at work
place and therefore provides respective responsibilities to management regarding maintenance
safety. The management of the health and safety also help the people to ensure that co-
operations and co- ordination between employers will lead to provide the best output to them.
Care Home also ensures assessment of risk in work place and find ways to eliminate it, if any. It
also provides accurate and important information regarding health and safety so that every
employees maintains safe working environment.
1.3 Analysing the health and safety priorities appropriate for a specific health and social care
workplace.
Workplace should have always been hygienic and proper well maintained. Workplace
which consist poor safety and health and safety plan of action attend to give negative scenrio
gives negative effects on the overall individual level that also effect the community at large level.
In order to meet out the best forming and better objective result (Loeppke and et.al., 2015). In a
health and social care apart from that, it also helps to discover the new managing effective
management tool and techniques. Health &workplace work workplaces effects of sickness and ill
health have been establishing & they range from small. Effective illness and injury been
establishing. It also helps to take the new managing business growth and best productive goals, it
also helps to discover the long range of developing leading and effective management. Health
and effective management styles helps to ensure the employee safety which is productive for the
better developing task. These not alone workplace these are the homes as well. For that, proper
maintenance should be there. In order to that, health care homes and institution must need to
adopt pleasant working and safe environment for employees by applying the all legal obligations
and act (Mills, 2016). Overall, it helps to keep the long term goals and best target market growth
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for the better systematic growth. In a residential care homes or other health care institution
responsible for protecting their employees health and safety needs. There are various types of
service providers, such as serviceman, service users, office staff, contractors etc. who might be
get stricken the style of work. In order to give care to the patient. Care Home needs to make
environment more clean and friendly in order to develop the good understanding between users
and service providers. People who does not belong to home care or they are not employed over
there but work activities of people who already been associated with care homes might be affect
them. It helps to continue the long lasting result outcomes.
For examples, Care Home required to take care of cleanliness and proper care of patients
as well as those who are the relatives of patient. Might be due to any circumstances' visitor can
also effect any risk full factors.
Another example is such that cleanliness is the topmost priority for social and health care
so that they will overcome many issues regarding it. Confidentiality should also be maintained
by them and they should not share any information without consulting the owner.
As per the regulations of health care, Care Home Must ensure the independence of
people, treating people with proper effectiveness and leading goals (Phillips and et.al., 2015).
Apart from that, risk assessment is required to make the long lasting effective risk which is
required to make more effective and implementing. Overall, it discovers the long term growth in
the developing performance of new managing successfully business to get the best outcomes
from the business growth. Overall, it helps to get the proper and effective result oriented task. In
order to reducing the risk hazardous circumstances (Shea and et.al., 2016). For that, company
needs to make the better goal oriented in order to meet the best possible action plan and better
advantage of business performance. Apart from that, health care wastes divided in 2 categories 1)
Health care waste which is almost very danger &2) health care non risk waste which nature is
interior.
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2.1 analysing the information from risk assessment informs are planning for individuals and
organisational decision
Risk Assessment Form
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Identified
Hazard
Risk Control Monitoring Extra Notes
Working at
height
This risk can
gives major issues
to the employee
of Care Homes.
Employer of Care
Homes needs to
identify the
location where
fall protection is
necessary at the
workplace
Check as per the
weekly or
monthly basis.
Nothing
Poor
Housekeeping
It can be the
another health
issue risk which
might be affect to
anyone weather
its employee, or
any visitor or
patient (Loeppke,
and et.al., 2015).
Care Home needs
to take care of
proper sanitation
process or
employee of Care
Homes can also
be more attentive
while they have
seen any risk full
factor.
Check as per the
weekly or
monthly basis.
Nothing
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Chemicals This is the
another risk
within health care
workplace which
can be affect the
employee health
of Care Homes.
Care Home needs
to make sure
about the safety
of chemicals
away from the
employees or any
other people who
does not know
about them.
Check as per the
weekly or
monthly basis.
Nothing.
Employers of Care Homes needs to analyse risk which relates to the work place safety for
their employees in order to reduce the uncertainty level in order to develop the long term goal
and making effective learning outcomes. This risk analysing process has been done by planning,
organising, controlling, monitoring, reviewing and auditing (Mills, 2016). This will help to
control the uncertainties of business growth. In order to reduce the misshapenness within the
culture growth. Most of the process helps to take direct examine by some quick methods. It gives
the long term target and less managing effective approach to get the outcome results.
Identification of risk is very much necessary for the employer to get the proper
identification on the danger in order to meet the health and safety needs. Identification is the first
step towards risk assessment. This process done by Care Home by close and sounding around
work place to find danger, asking employees or their representative to get their views and
checking accident and weakness records. The next step after identification that who's the person
who get affected from the risk. This cane from among staff members, employees, workers or the
patient or visitors as well. Evaluate the risk and measuring the proper effectiveness and growth
level. All precautionary and effective item growth channel will help company to develop better
risk assessment task (Phillips and et.al., 2015). Overall, risk assessment is very much necessary
and long lasting for the developing nature of protecting the employees or staff members from
unwanted risk.
All precautionary item should adopted by the Care Homes in order to keep the working
place secure and safe. It helps to increase the employee faith and security level of their
confidence.
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2.2 Presenting the impact of one aspect of health and safety policy on health and social care
practice and its customers.
Impact of health and safety policy upon Care Home: the act of Health and safety
policy is passed on 1974 in order to make sure that everyone who are in work activities should be
safe and secure. The main aim of this policy is to protect the workers who are doing their work in
their offices. Moreover, in Care Home workers and employees are actually do their work with a
risk bearing and at that time there is a need to have such law which work in order to protect them
from any miss happen. It has positive impact upon Care Home such that the differences in the
working environment is such that there is a need to develop risk assessment strategy so that the
workers will be protected from risk. Health and safety policies has been given positive impact on
the care homes in order to meet out the care home services and goals. I develops the long term
safety precautions and give better sustainability to the businesses. Another positive impact of
policies on Care Homes is that to develop the better safety pre causations for the new
development growth.
It has been analysed that injuries are common in hospitals and at that to adopting or
implementing this technique in a workplace will help to assess the potential risk and also identify
the hazards. This policy also help to put the measures in the working area to protect the people
and environment in Care Home. Hence, if the organization will directly implement this technique
into the working area then it will also essential for a firm to reduce the cost which are directly
link with safety failures and as a result, it will help to reduce the cost as well as money for the
long term (Lundgren and McMakin, 2018). However, this shows that introducing health and
safety policy in the working area creates a positive impact upon it.
Impact of health and safety policy upon customers: the policy also creates the impact
upon customers. Such that of the health and policy are applied in the place then it will help to
satisfied their customers and also provide the positive environment of the company. On the other
side, risk assessment also provide the information of future vulnerability and the policies of an
organization and also determine the patient situation. If the company have proper risk assessment
management then it will also help to construct a proper safety action (Jain, Leka and Zwetsloot,
2018). This policy is actually used to deduct death and permanent disability of an organization
and even a person should also have change in their caring policy and also change the duty time
and effectiveness of the information that are provided to many customers.
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If this policy are actual introduce in order to reduce the mental pressure of their patient as
well as improve the behaviour as well as activity which help a worker to take proper decision
which further enriches the quality of practices in health and social care sector so that they will
get proper treatment in regard to their problem. Hence, it has been cleared that by applying the
health and safety policy into the working area will be helpful for both customers as well as in a
business to provide safe and healthy environment to their customers and workers too.
2.3 Presenting how dilemmas encountered in relation to implement system and policies for
health
When an organization implement system, policies for health, safety and security, they
faces lot of uncertainty and dilemmas such as:
 Risk in Supply Chain: While implementing the health and safety policy into the
working place, Care Home also faces problem because it ensures safe workplace in order
to national laws but on the other side, if the third party have not health and safety
measures then it will create unsafe workplace as well as increases the higher rate of
accidents. Hence it is consider the biggest dilemma which every organization faces and
there is need to implement such policy in every workplace (Ginter, Duncan and Swayne,
2018).
 Maintaining High technology: in order to provide best services to their customers,
health and social care organization start using high technological techniques so that it will
help them to consume time as well as money. But to maintain such type of technologies
into working area is quite crucial and that is why they try to import high technology but
as a result it charges large amount of taxes and at that time the company did not have
operator and installation man power and due to this, they faces some dilemmas to
implement such type of policies into working area (Brekke and et.al., 2018).
 Corruption at high level: the health and safety care organization such as Care Home
always try to use all new and higher level of services that is why they also make policy
and system but because of having high corruption among government inspector the
company cannot do the work in such an effective way and as a result the product offering
becomes lower and it low down the effectiveness of their qualified product (Ortega,
Rodriguez and Vargas Bustamante, 2015). In addition to this, the company also faces
dilemma to inner bribes while implementing such policy into their working area. Hence,
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it is consider one of the most affective dilemmas faces by Care Home in order to accept
the new policies or system into the working place.
 Public negligence: it is the another cause or a dilemma which is faced by the Care Home
in health and social care sector. Such that when a firm is implementing the policy as well
as practices and among them some of the policies are actually performed or related to
public. At that time, many workers who work in public sector negligence the work and
this creates obstacles to their policy implementation in regard to health and safety
workplaces. Hence these are some dilemmas which is actually faces in health and social
care sector (Cervero-Liceras, McKee and Legido-Quigley, 2015). So there is a need to
introduce health and safety policy so that it will help them to protect the life of workers
who are actually work in the places and there is a need to overcome such dilemmas in
order to provide healthy and safe environment for patient as well as hospitals too.
 Risk to self and others: When a new system or policy is adopted by the company then,
the company also faces dilemmas regarding self or others. Such that they may disturb
suicide attempts and also cause some mental issues as well.
 Resource implication: Shortage of resource is another issue or dilemma which is faced
by the social and mental health care. Such that sometime, firm have shortage of labour or
capital and as a result, it may also lead to create dilemmas for them.
 Priorities of stakeholders: In a firm, every stakeholder have different priorities and as a
result, they all have their own opinions and due to which it becomes hard for thwe
company to follow their view point.
2.4 Analyse the effect of non-compliance with health and safety legislation in a health and social
care workplace.
It has been observed that, various kinds of health and social care act and regulations are
available in UK like; Public Health Act 1963, Mental Health act 1983, and mental health act
2007 in UK. Moreover, all health social care firms are conjugated to follow these rules and
legislations into their place of work. The impact of non-compliance of these laws are many,
some of these are explained below:
 Legislations of health and safety shows and provides some ways to services. If the firms
are non compliance to the rule of safe surrounding and nature including safety measures,
then all individuals related to Care Homes may experiences consequences in a long run
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