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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