Health and Safety: Legislation, Policies, and Procedures

This report provides a comprehensive overview of health, safety, and wellbeing within health and social care settings. It begins by identifying relevant legislations and explaining how health and safety policies and procedures underpin practice. The report outlines the main health and safety responsibilities of individuals, employers, and others, emphasizing the importance of training for specific tasks. It then delves into safe moving and handling principles and practices for handling hazardous substances. Furthermore, it explores the principles of the chain of infection, the impact of breaking it, and the individual's role in reducing the spread of infection, including recommended hand-washing methods and hygiene practices. The conclusion highlights the significance of preserving and protecting the health and safety of staff members, underscoring the need for NHS organizations to support the physical and mental wellbeing of their employees to ensure effective service delivery.

Health safety and wellbeing in
health and social care setting

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Identify legislations relating to health and safety
 Explain how health and safety policies and procedures and other agreed ways of working
underpin practice
 Explain main health and safety responsibilities of
 Identify task in work setting that should not be carried out without training
 Explain principles of safe moving and handling
 Describe safe practices for handling hazardous substances

Table of Content
 Understand the principles of chain of infection
 Understand the impact of breaking the chain of infection
 Explain own role in reducing the spread of infection
 Describe the recommended method of hand-washing
 Explain how to ensure that own health and hygiene do not pose a risk to an individual or to
other at work
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Health and safety wellbeing are important for each and every individual as it leads to promote
satisfaction among people and make them productive towards their work. Well-being is the white
concept as it is related with several areas like individual dignity, corporal and mental fitness,
defense from abuse, contribution in work, social and economic comfort, appropriateness of the
living lodging of an individual and contribution towards the society.

Identify legislations relating to health and
safety
Health and social care act 2015 provide information regarding the individuals that they
cared for considering the consistent identifier by offering safe and effective care to
individuals regarding certain offences and remove them from the registers of Health and
social care regulatory bodies.

Explain how health and safety policies and
procedures and other agreed ways of
working underpin practice
Policies are put into the place in order to make sure that the policies are properly
being followed by the people of country in care of setting them safe and fulfil their
needs by meeting the standards and suitable ways.

Explain main health and safety
accountabilities of
Self: The primary responsibility of every individual is to take reasonable care of them in order
to make sure the health and safety of them.
Employer: The basic responsibility of employer is to make sure that the work place is safe for
employees as the need to assess and eliminate the risk factor at the workplace.
Others: Every individual like users and visitors was be responsible regarding the health and
safety as they take reasonable care of themselves.

Identify task in work location that should
not be carried out without exercise
Employers also need to
make sure that the training of
employees is up to date and provide
refreshes as per their need when there
are changes in regulations and
legislations.

Explain principles of safe moving and
handling
Communication is the basic factor for the safe moving and handling as
communicating with the co-workers is important for an individual in order to help them and
aware regarding the situation. Hence poor communication leads to make task unsafe and even
the other components also tends to perform well.

Describe safe practices for handling
hazardous substances
They also need to handle Store risky materials safely and undertake the approved process.
They also transfer the flammable liquids Into the Other containers and always carry chemicals
in the approved containers.

Understand the principles of chain of
infection
The infectious diseases are related to the illness because of the toxic creation that arises through the
broadcast from the infected person and object. These diseases are accountable for the huge global
load of illness that leads to impact the economy is worldwide and Public Health system.

Understand the impact of breaking the
chain of infection
Healthcare-associated infections leads to occur in any Healthcare setting by specifying the risk
which is different and the basic principles for the infection prevention that apply the regardless
of the settings.