Health and Safety Legislation Implementation in Social Care Workplace

This report delves into the crucial aspects of health and safety legislation within the health and social care workplace. It begins by emphasizing the importance of a healthy working environment for employees, highlighting various laws and regulations such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Health and Safety Regulations Act 1981, and the Food Safety Act 1990. The report outlines the duties of employers, including providing safe machinery, training, and adequate resources. It discusses the UK's health and safety policy model, involving government and non-government institutions, and emphasizes the role of management in identifying and mitigating workplace hazards. The report provides practical examples, such as supporting individuals with disabilities, and reinforces the responsibilities of both employers and employees in maintaining a safe and healthy workplace. The content focuses on the practical implications of these regulations and their impact on the health and well-being of both staff and service users.

Health and Safety in Health and Social Care Workplace
Health and safety legislation is implemented in health an social care workplace
There is saying “Health is Wealth”. This is an important concern for every human. The organisation who
provides the healthy workplace to employees, becomes wealthiest organisation. The employer should be
concern person for employees health at workplace. An employer must provide a healthy working
environments to its employees so they can work freely and can contribute towards success of company. As
there are different types of rules and regulation related to safety and health for social and health care at
workplace. These are as follows:
There are various laws which support the health and safety in health and social care workplace. These laws
are discusses below: Health and Safety at Work Act 1974: This is an act of UK parliament which discuss
fundamental structure and control for the assistance, laws and social control of workplace health, safety and
social welfare within UK. The objectives this act is to preparing and protecting people from risk which arises
at workplace.
Duties of employers: Provisions and maintenance of plant and machineries which are risk free to employee’s
health. Provisions of information, instruction, training and direction is compulsory to ensure health and safety
of employees at workplace. As in this given case it is the duty of CQC to give training so the management of
Aldgate Residential so they can keep clean the area where they are living.
The Health and Safety Regulations Act 1981: According to this act it is employer’s responsibility to give
the safe and adequate resources to their employees and employer must ensure that employees gets instant
medical facility if they gets injured while at work.
Food Safety Act 1990, Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995, and food Safety
(Temperature Control) Regulations 1995
This act includes the food services, procurement and need of registration of that business whether its
profitable or non-profitable. All types of canteens, clubs and care home businesses are included in this
category. The local authorities of UK are responsible for the implementation of these laws.
The UK health department follows a model regarding the implementation of health and safety policy which
is given as under:
This is the duty of Department of Health to formulate policy for giving policy to give proper health and social
The government institutions and non-governments institutions of UK both obliged to plan the Health and
safety of people at workplace. Under this system, the delegation of duties are delegated from local authorities
to department of health. As this also involve one who takes services and one who provides the services,
controlling system, NHS commissioning board and local and public health. Management also plays an
important role in health and safety of people at workplace. It includes followings:
Organized use of tools and techniques: This is very necessary to use tools in systematic way for distinguishing
and removing the health related hazards at the workplace.
Managing the danger: As to effect the attitude and promote behaviour during tools using potential risk must
be controlled.
The duties of management can be identified at workplace by assessing a person who is physically challenged.
For example: A physically disabled individua
Under this reference, the plan includes to take a disable individual to the cafe for dinner as due to disability,
person would not be able to go alone. The individual disable desired to eat pizza for dinner on regular basis.
The colleagues of an individual thinks that eating pizza regularly could be unhealthy. So here health and
safety service providers can make individual capable to take decision which are good for their health. In this
context support worker must convey their message in supportive way so the individual does not feel guilty or
bullied. It is the responsibility of management and organisation to concern about the health of an individual.
There are some duties of employers according to Health and Safety Act 1974 at work. As it is an employer's
responsibility to protect the health, safety and welfare of the employees. An employer must take every
reasonable action to take care of employees health and safety. The employees have also their duty to protect
their own health and safety at workplace. The workers of organisation co-operate with the management and
co-workers to meet the legal requirements related to work.