Surrey and Sussex Healthcare: Health and Safety Practices and Review

This report analyzes health and safety practices within the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, focusing on monitoring and review processes. It explores auditing of risks, implementation of health and safety policies, and the importance of updating procedures to create a safe working environment. The report also examines the need for effective communication regarding policies and procedures to create a positive working environment, and evaluates the contribution of the individual to ensure health, safety, and security, including their responsibilities and interactions with individuals. References from various sources are used to support the findings. This assignment is designed to provide students with practical insights into health and safety management within a healthcare context.

Health and Safety in
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TASK 3

Explaining the way health and safety practices
can be monitored and reviewed.
 According to the given scenario, Surrey and Sussex
Healthcare NHS Trust is an 850 beds acute trust and
provides a range of clinical and non clinical services
across Surrey and Sussex.
 The working group conducted an audit looking to
beds, trolley and mattresses, chairs and similar
equipment.
 It is important for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS
Trust to provide health and safety policy at work
place.

Cont.......
 Care planning ensure that strategy which is applied
within the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
should be effective and communicated with all
employees.
 There are different ways which can be used by the
firm for monitoring the progress which are as
follows:
 Auditing of risk and threats; In risk auditing Surrey
and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust can identify
different factor which can increase risk at the
workplace.

Cont...........
 Practice review: Within an organisation
predetermined practices can be used for assessing the
effectiveness. As because all the health and safety
policy which are implemented at the work place so
that employees not face any hazard.
 Updating policy and procedure: Through updating
policy and procedure it becomes easy to remove all
the hazard from the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
NHS Trust.

Effectiveness of health and safety policy at the
workplace for promoting positive health and
safety culture
 At Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
there are some of the health and safety policy
in respect to promote positive working
environment.
 At the organisation work culture can be
improved with the help of security provision.

Evaluating of own contribution for placing needs
of individual at the centre in relation to health,
safety and security
There are different types of needs which are
needed to be communicated at the Surrey and
Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust for providing
safety and security to employees.

Cont....
My own contribution for the toward the health
and safety is as follows:
 Responsibilities:
 Interaction with individual:

References
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