Detailed Analysis of Health and Safety in Health and Social Care

This report comprehensively examines health and safety practices within health and social care organizations. It begins by outlining essential policies and procedures for effective communication, including the implementation of data protection acts and the importance of verifying information access. The report then delves into the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders, from top-level management to individual employees, emphasizing the significance of risk control measures and hazard identification. A key focus is placed on health and safety priorities in children's healthcare, addressing behavioral issues and promoting a supportive environment. The report further explores how information transfer supports care planning and decision-making, detailing the process of risk assessment and its impact on policies. It also discusses dilemmas in utilizing systems, the consequences of non-compliance, and the importance of a positive health and safety culture. The report concludes by highlighting the author's contribution to meeting individual needs within the health and safety framework, emphasizing continuous review, monitoring, and the promotion of effective practices.

Health and Safety in
Health and Social care

Table of contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Policies and procedure that are made for safely communication is implemented...........1
1.2 Roles and responsibilities in the heath and care organisation..........................................3
1.3 Heath and safety priorities in children health and care....................................................4
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
2.1 information can be transferred in care planning for individual and organisation decision
making....................................................................................................................................6
2.2 Impact on health and safety policy on their care practices ..............................................8
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2.3 Dilemmas which are fight in relation to utilizing systems and policies.........................11
2.4 Effects of non-compliance with health and safety legislation........................................12
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................13
3.1 Social and health care practices can be reviewed and monitored. ................................13
3.2 Promoting a creating positive health and safety culture with effectiveness of their practices
and policies...........................................................................................................................15
3.3 My contribution to satisfy the individual needs in the health and safety at the Centre of
practice.................................................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................25
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................26

INTRODUCTION
In health and social care organisation, health and safety is the measure aspect that
should be considered. The report focus on review of the different the policies, system and
procedure that help in safety in the company. Various task are assigned to the different
employee of the organisation such as implementation of procedure, organising health
programs, modifying the policies etc. which increase the morale of employee and enhance the
productivity and profitability of the company. Importance of communication of the
information and risk related to that are identified, various risk measure are taken such as
analyse the ID proof of the information taker and asking question which make sure that he/he
has right to have the information. Review of health care system is done and effect of non
compliance on the productivity and profitability of the venture are made.
TASK 1
1.1 Policies and procedure that are made for safely communication is implemented.
There are numbers of plan of action and procedures for transferring information in the
social care work place are made from that data protection act (Shatkin and Kim, 2017). In
1998. In case of slip accident, Patient can not take care of themselves because their major
bones are injured, their care have been taken by their family and friends so information related
to them should be communicated to their family members so that they can able care their
patients properly. The data protection act is implemented to defend the company's product and
service user right for privacy mostly for the private info such as political and religion beliefs,
user ethnicity, criminal and sexuality record. Main responsibilities of the service user is to
keep all the information secure and confidential. Personal information can be disclose to some
other people if the individual give concerned provides consent (Donham and Thelin, 2016). In
some condition such as death and life situation, the information should be communicated to
the family members. It anyone emphases to provide data about other's work with, then it
should be mitigated that that person who wants the information have right to know about that.
To know the right to communicate the information, different organisation have different
policies and procedure.
The basic process and procedure is to ask for the ID proof or any other documentation
that states their right to know the data. The inquiry is done over the telephone and question is
asked with the service person concerned, if the ID proof is not there. Question may includes
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family names and date of birth of the concerned individual (Dewey and Okun, 2016. If the
answer is not given correctly then he/she is denied to provide information due to in under the
terms of 1988 Data protection act, the person is not secured to the identity so it is suggested
that the ID proof is necessity to prove that he/she has right to get information. If the person is
satisfied with the ID but not secured for making disclose then he/she has right to take their
telephone and communicate with the manager. It is compulsory under the national health
service and heath and safety administrator that the making of health and safety policy papers
in the social and health company is necessary (Shatkin and Kim, 2017). In such case like slip
accident, information communication is very important so that their related members can able
to take care of them, but if the information is passes to unauthorised person then they can
misuse the information and will harm the patent. So in such cases proper analyse of those
members who get the information should be done.
The method for communicating the information is graphical communication and
showing of graphical pictures is the way that the information is transferred in the environment
of the health care organisation. Such as direction for the fire exit, non flammable and other
hazards are signalled with the usage of graphical presentation method. These are the way
which shows safety sigh in the business. This way is very effective to convey through the
graphical signs boards which create the attention of the person. These methods help to
communicate to those people who are not literate but they can easily understand the sign
board for their safety (Cerqueira and Melo, 2017).
1.2 Roles and responsibilities in the heath and care organisation.
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As the organisation have planned various policies that not providing information to the
unauthorised person and use of graphical representation to secure people, there are various
practices in the social and health care business to insure the safety of both customers and
employee. The management of the company have various practices for ensuring the safety of
the employee and users of the work. Top level management is accountable for making policies
and procedure in heath care setting and they are also answerable for the executing that
policies. According to the national health service, administration is the top level authority and
they are only liable for achieving the legislative and regulative need that are affiliated to the
safety and health of all the stakeholders of the company. These responsibilities include
implementation of regulations, monitoring all the activities and making sure that service users
and employee are following all the implemented rules and regulations. The key
responsibilities of the management are as follows:
 Techniques to be used properly: Use of technology in the appropriate manner will able
to find out the hazards and removing them in the social and health care workplace. In
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case of slip accident, different techniques are used by the organisation so that they can
able to care them in proper way and reduce their fat.
 Risk controlled measures: Use of techniques to encourage attitude and influence the
behaviour so that risk can be controlled (Shatkin and Kim, 2017). Different control
measure have been taken by the company so they can able to prevent the slip accident
in the hospital
The roles and responsibilities are as follows:
 Provide all the procedure which are mandatory for the safe working environment.
 Hazards identification system are to be implemented to identify, communicate and
correct the hazards. Organisation must find out that what are the reason why individual
get slip in the hospital and the take preventive measures so that they can able to reduce
it.
 Ensure the proper supply of equipment and their maintenance.
 To make sure that hazards identification supervisor are expert (Shatkin and Kim,
2017).
 Inspect entire work place by processing co-occurrence with the JHSC which is an
evaluation process)
 Support safety committee, representatives and workers in their social and health
activities.
 Follow and implement Occupational health and safety regulation and act.
1.3 Heath and safety priorities in children health and care
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There are different priorities made in taking care of children in the hospital, these are
as follows:
Children health
Try to understand the behaviour of the children and what problems they are facing. To
find out the reason behind why children is behaving in such way. After finding out the reason
and causes, measure are taken to prevent aggressive behaviour of the children. Giving help for
dealing with the social environment and issues. Corporate children to reduce their anger. Try
to improve his/her health issues.
Specific and relevant information is required for care of children. By making perfect
relationship between the health care workers and individuals, this information can be serves,
that includes:
 Public assets should be guaranteed in health and social care workplace.
 It must ensure service and organisation transparency.
 It should ensure effective source and choice availability.
 Service providers and taker should have proper communication and relationship.
 At the end new policy must be executed (Cerqueira and Melo, 2017).
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TASK 2
2.1 information can be transferred in care planning for individual and organisation decision
making
The outcome of risk assessment is positive way to provide information to the people.
The assessment of risk helps the organisation in making the intimacy with arrived risks in the
social care and health settings and very significantly its final result could be experienced as
well as on the process of decision making. If the assessment of risk is not so correct then the
plan of action related to health and safety will never be enforced or designed in correct way.
The procedures and systems may also become track for the well-known as the business entity
are really not familiar to their real difficulty and issues. The process for the risk assessment
process also includes the facility to analyse the standards decided with the current standard
and this comparative analysis, the better change could be introduced. The process are as
follows:
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Illustration 1: Bariatric Patients
(Source: Bariatric patient, 2016)

 Planning: it is the process to set the policies and standard such as professional, legal
and moral. After that involvement of the staff is done, which helps to establish the
priorities and system for understanding risk assessment that includes manual handling.
In the case of Bariatric patient, the organisation need to set priorities to handle them,
proper process is made to treat them in proper way
 Organising: It is analysed that who will do what, for the execution of the plans that are
done into the practice. Undertake risk assessment and determining that measure should
be taken and proper communication is established (Donham and Thelin, 2016).
Resources are allocated to treat the Bariatric patient such as injection, medicine etc.
 Directing: All the employees implement policies, precautions and training are given to
them. Making sure that all the members are implementing all the strategies. All the
responsibilities are allocated and then doctors guide their assistant how to treat the
Bariatric patient
 Monitoring: In this process, top level management and leader monitor that all the
organisation's staff are doing their task properly or not and they are able to meet the
standard or not. After that their performance are being measure to find that they are
fruitful for the company or not (Dewey and Okun, 2016). After implication of
treatment, Bariatric patient are evaluated that plans that have made has made any
changes in the performance of patient.
 Review: It the system is working? Are the standard are correct, employees are able to
meet the standard? Are answered in this process Modifying the priorities if old one are
achieved, finding that new equipment is suitable for the organisation and employees
are satisfactory from the new technologies. Whether the employees are required more
training or not.
 Auditing: it is the final step where the whole system is reviewed periodically.
By taking these steps into consideration, organisation can able to manage their staff,
members, customers, policies and priorities. Planning helps them to make plan that how many
members are required and what tools, machinery and resources are required in the Ambulance
such as stretcher, carry chair and man power to handle patient such as taking him/her from the
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bed to chair and floor to bed. An employed unit was made to take care about the
musculoskeletal disorders in ambulance. This group licensed ergonomists from the Health and
Safety Research laboratory to conduct some work with carry chairs and alternative patient
transfer seats. As the UK population is obsessed, so special treatment course for those who are
suffered from obesity (Shatkin and Kim, 2017).
The information that is collected from the risk assessment can serve benefit for the
individuals making plans and company's decision making for the policies and procedures.
That benefits are as follows:
For individual care
 Finding different care services for the different and society.
 To increase the services of the organisation.
 To experience the healthier social and health care servers.
 To get minimal services at the minimum cost.
 Knowing the right of having social and health care services.
 At the last, customer can take the decision about the health care services from the
information (Shatkin and Kim, 2017).
2.2 Impact on health and safety policy on their care practices
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Illustration 2: Care practices
(Source: Care practices of Bariatric patient, 2016)
All the workforce members like owners, employees, workers, supervisors, contractors,
self employed person and suppliers are legally responsible for the identifying the health and
safety risk and correcting them. It is miss-conception that only employee are responsible for
taking measure to prevent health and safety in the organisation but employer are also
responsible for safety and security in the workplace so their practices are as follows:
 Ensure that the working place is safe for the employee working. Is there are any
hazards from the patient or the disease can be spread or not such as Bariatric patient,
so employee need to take proper precaution while treating the patient.
 Create occupational health communities or representatives and solve the problems
related to the safety measures.
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 Safety measures should be taken by they to make sure health and safety in the
organisation. The employees should use proper gloves while treating the patient so that
they can be safe from Bariatric patient.
 Protect employee from harassments (Shatkin and Kim, 2017).
 Provide all the information when employee stuck into any hazards or don't know how
to solve the problem.
There are various practices which are to fulfilled by the employer, their obligations are as
follows:
 Be careful for their own health and safety.
 Acquainted themselves with the legislation in the work environment and if they have
any problems while understanding the legal standard, they must try to understand and
have interpretation of the requirements by asking to management.
 They must be familiar with health and safety requirements which are affecting my job
 They should work in safe way and encourage others to behave in the same way.
 Take proper training regarding prevention from hazards
 They will try to operate all the machinery without wearing loose cloths and jewellery.
All the employees should take care of this factor so that it cannot harm the Bariatric
patient in any case.
 Try not to put other employees in the risk (Shatkin and Kim, 2017).
 Work jointly with their representatives, committees and employees to defend their
social and health.
 If any conditions are unsafe then try to correct them or report to the supervisors.
 Check and use the PPE(Personal Protective Equipment) daily, if they are not at right
standard at that time they will notify all employees imminently.
 They will avoid fun and taking shortcuts during my work time.
2.3 Dilemmas which are fight in relation to utilizing systems and policies
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Different organisation set different priorities for health and safety. To address the
dilemmas that rise when execution of safety, social and health care systems and procedures,
different strategies can be used. Knowing various priorities of them to the different
stakeholders of the company can be visualise as fruitful way that will play as an active
strategy for decreasing the dilemmas that have raised when executing the new systems. In case
of Bariatric patient there are various measure should be taken so that individual as well as all
the patient can able to protect them prom hazards and patient can able to recover their disease
as soon as possible. For this context, the steps that should be taken priority for the disabled
individual's health and safety are as follows:
Individual safety
 Taking disabled person at some protected place where hazardous electric lines are not
there.
 To take them at that workplace where unsafe tools are not available.
 To take them where there is no taking of drug.
 To keep away from the fire safety if he/she is smoker (Shatkin and Kim, 2017).
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2.4 Effects of non-compliance with health and safety legislation
There are different factors that are connected with the non-compliance of the health
and safety regulations in the work environment. Lots of problems are arises if the legislation
are not clear. The major negative consequences that can be, duty and obligation of the care
workers are not explained responsibilities in the standard format. It is one of the most major
problem arises in the organisation, that is related to non-compliance, If the care workers are
not able to realise the different feature which are helpful on the ground of their rights as well.
The workers are not able to complete their task on time and make delay in making the
decision making that could be experienced in non-compliance.
The integrating between the workers will be slower down, it will create lots of
negative aspect to the organisation. The disputes start rising and at the end the scenario will be
worst. Various differences will be created among the staff members and teamwork will be
hampered. It will be noticed that the level of grudges will rise and harmony and peace among
the employees among the staff members will reduce. The working efficiency will be decrease
as well as it will lower down all the productivity. An irresponsible behaviour will be develop
among them and it is really major problem for the noncompliance behaviour. This will lead to
face lots of issues in achieving the personal as well as organisational objective.
At the large scale, company's brand name will be spoiled, if the legislation objective
are not so appropriate. In such organisation, patient will not keep faith and will not trust which
minimise the footfall's ratio of the patients. The two noncompliance which effect the venture
are personal as well as professional, personal includes health implication, injuries and
facilities. Professional are prosecution, disciplinary action, closure of the setting and fines. If
these noncompliances are not fulfilled, it will affect the financial performance of the
organisation and the client will sue for the compensation. Another aspect may include the poor
safety level, this is provides legal impact to the company. Therefore, when the compliance are
not chosen and aligned properly in the health and social so the company can be sued by the
client and then they have to face lots of legal problems as well as financial problems.
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TASK 3
3.1 Social and health care practices can be reviewed and monitored.
For the best result, health and safety practices and policies need to properly monitored
and implemented. These analyse can be done in following ways:
Planning: Proper care planning will make sure that effective planning has been kept at the
right place to execute the safety policies and practices. Proper planning is required that how
much and which type of bed is need in the hospital.
Priorities: An effective communication will provide effective implementation of all policies
and practices. There are wide range of situations and dilemmas part for the communication
and execution that includes benefits related to the risk analysis, personal risk and risk to other
individuals. Organisation should set priorities the patient that who will be required such beds
such as those patients who is not able to take care of themselves so that it is flexible for patient
and their family members to handle all the task.
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Their practices: It refers to the procedures and practices that are refers to the individual
responsibilities and needs as well as modification in practices and relationship between the
customers and employees (Dewey and Okun, 2016).
Reviewing and monitoring practices and policies
 Reviewing all the policies and practices related to electric profiling beds in hospital.
 Audit of all the threats and risk need to do to find that which beds are working and
which need to be changed.
 Modification and updating all the policies and procedures. If any new techniques are
entering into the market, organisation need to adopt them and make modification.
 Learn form experience.
The organisation must find the past threats and develop new strategies to overcome
them in order to increase their efficiency. There are number of committees in the company,
their task is to monitor safety through various practices and procedures. They monitor all the
activities on the monthly or weekly basis. They also solve the dispute between all the
members of the venture. The biggest challenges for them is to ensure that for the both
company and the workers provide minimal benefits from the practices and policies. At the end
they continuously communicate with the workers and monitoring and reviewing the processes
(Dewey and Okun, 2016).
Health and safety at health care centre are strictly monitored by countries national
body and local bodies. The health care centre manages the best facility, they can provide but
the group which was on inspection found out few things which need to be monitored.
 Risk can be identified by estimating the risk for the organisation and evaluating the
difference between current and future scenario.
 Improving and implementing new practices in overall health care centre can help in
keeping a check over the functioning of centre.
 Practices can be monitored by collecting information from customers and workers
about the performance, number of accidents and uncertainties etc. This technique will
help the auditor to make changes in current situation of health care centre.
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Monitoring health and safety helps in analysing the need of new equipments in the centre. As
the management and employees did not realize the need of new mattresses and beds and
suddenly a group of auditors came for inspection changed some of them and added few new
mattresses and beds (Cerqueira and Melo, 2017).
HSG65
It is management of health and safety in the organisation basically for the leaders, line
managers and owners. This association provide advice to the workers' and their representative
related to the health and safety in the organisation. The helps in
 The core factors of managing safety and health in the company.
 Provide help related to what the firm is doing and what they need to do
 Serving effective arrangements for health safety.
 Provide useful resources.
 Provide large emphasis on the behavioural aspects of organisation.
 They think health and safety management is an integral part of the better management.
 Their key focus in on plan-do-check-act.
3.2 Promoting a creating positive health and safety culture with effectiveness of their practices
and policies.
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Properly organized health and care centre gives the best safety performance.
Maintaining policies and procedures is owner’s legitimate duty and the centre management
should ensure safe and secure environment for the workers and patients. Effective heath care
policies should be:
 Recruitment of skilled and right staff so that they can able to handle electric profiling
beds in hospital
 Before assigning work, training should be given or the centre that should ensure that
the person is already trained to manage all the beds.
 Setting health and safety measures taken by the employees which using the electric
profiling beds in hospital
 Creating healthy and safe surroundings for patients.
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 Heath care centre should be at suitable locations so that everyone can reach easily.
 It should have different procedure for emergency patients and different bed are
designed for different diseased person.
 The organisation should have short and simple maintained records.
 NHS trust ensures that patients have one nurse available with them in case of
emergency.
 Healthcare centre should have cleanliness all around like the dresses they provide to
patients, beds, wash rooms etc.
 The organisation should have proper facilities for patient attendants and care taker of
the patient (Donham and Thelin, 2016).
 Health care premises should be protected with proper security systems and CCTV
cameras so that they can able to evaluate that all the electric profiling beds in hospital
are working properly
 Organisations should regularly revise the policies and procedures and modify as per
environment.
3.3 My contribution to satisfy the individual needs in the health and safety at the Centre of
practice
As the member of the care committee my role is to implement and manage all the
practices related to the health and safety. The judgement of my contribution for the execution
of organisation health and safety security measures are classifies as:
Benefits to the employees:
 Working environment is safe and healthy.
 Decrease the stress of the employees.
 Enhance the morale of the each member of the organisation.
 Job satisfaction of every employees increased.
 Enhance wealth and sense of well being.
 Improve productivity and profitability of the company
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 Generate brand awareness.
Benefits to organisation:
 Reduce workforce turnover.
 Increase and enhanced staff morale.
 Improved every employee productivity.
 Healthcare and insurance cost reduces.
 Reduce the risk of fines and litigation.
 Well management of health and safety programs.
 Caring and positive image (Dewey and Okun, 2016).
These all factors will increase the profitability and productivity of the organisation as
well as decrease the attribution rate of employs. This efficiency increase by adopting best
practices in the work place related to health and safety. The company makes sure that al the
employees are happy and satisfied with the work culture.
My role was to address the grievance of the workers with regard to execution of all
practices, procedures and policies. When the workers at the middle level were having various
problems related to the plans and procedures, through proper transferring the message and
managing the risk in the health and safety all their problems were solved. By serving the
regular update on the related issues the workers are aware of changes in the policies. My role
was also to address the health hazards and occupational safety. The core committee also
organise camps and consciousness programs that provides benefits to the workers for not just
acting their duties but also get other personal benefits. The programs and events includes
stress management, heart disease, AIDS and cancer related problems as well as biology
problems like population as risk connected to it (Dewey and Okun, 2016).
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CONCLUSION
It can be summarised from the project report that holding the health and safety of
the customers and employees are very important at the large scale which provide security at
the work place. Implementation of all the safety and health policies in the work premisis
where integrated policy is needed through which all the individual that are ethic group,
immigrants, regional, rational and religious group get assurance that have right to take all the
opportunities in the workplace of the company. Proper training is given to the employees so
that they can able to have security of themselves, other employees and customer in the
organisation so that they can able to generate band awareness of the company.
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