Comprehensive Analysis: Health, Safety, and Security in Healthcare

This report provides a detailed analysis of health, safety, and security within health and social care settings. It begins by identifying potential hazards and discrepancies, including physical hazards like noise and vibration, as well as harms and abuses. The report then discusses relevant legislation, policies, and procedures, emphasizing the importance of guidelines in the UK to ensure safe working conditions. A significant portion of the report is dedicated to risk assessment, outlining four types of hazards and providing a risk assessment table with controlling strategies. Finally, the report addresses possible priorities and responses to incidents, such as fires and equipment-related incidents, concluding with the importance of effective management and compliance with government regulations to mitigate risks and ensure the safety of patients and staff. The report uses various sources like books and journals to support the analysis.

HEALTH, SAFETY AND
SECURITY IN HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Potential hazards and discrepancy that will arise in health care settings..........................1
P2 Legislation, policies and procedures associated with health and social care settings.......2
P3 Assessment of risk in health and social care settings........................................................2
P4 Possible priorities and responses dealing with incidents..................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care services are considered as important for their users and
organisations like care home UK for removal of various major hazards that can be caused due to
ineffective health and social care settings (Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013). There are
important legislation and guidelines related to health and safety are also analysed in order to
avoid the chances of getting harm. Assessment of various risk caused by Hazards have been
recognised and measures identified to resolve the problems. Various internal and external
discrepancies have been discussed.
P1 Potential hazards and discrepancy that will arise in health care settings.
 Hazards: There are various types of health problems have been faced by the health care
users that relates different kinds. Physical hazards is considered as factor within the
environment which can Harm the body without touching it (Aveyard, 2014). The
symptoms which are identified by specialist like Vibration of body and noise. These can
be caused by electricity, radiation, pressure, noise, heights and vibration etc.
 Harms and abuse: There are various causes of these harms and abuses like causing injury,
acquired infection, physical problems, inappropriate care planning and stress etc. The
major problem which is faced by users in care UK are considered as infection which has
been caused by equipments which are used by doctors.
 Setting types: There are various discrepancies that are arising health care setting through
major problems in residential care, surgery and other problems which have been caused
as per the major aspects (Care Quality Commission, 2012). Inappropriate health care
measure will provide major impact on users, thus care UK needs to analyse these
problems and should take effective steps to resolve consequences.
 Individuals: Those persons which are mostly affected by this health care hazards in care
UK, like users, Staff at intensive care Unit, support staff, cleaners and other etc.
 Users of health and social care services:
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P2 Legislation, policies and procedures associated with health and social care settings.
There are various important guidelines have been made by government related to
compliance of various health care units at workplace. In UK, it plays an important role in
ensuring the health care units at workplace (Woltmann and et.al., 2012). There are various needs
to be accomplished by the company that has an objective to overcome the weaknesses. The
health and safety act ensures in providing better working conditions, food and safety of workers
in industry. It mainly protects from the harm and damage to adults, children etc. It influences
them by protecting users from things that affects their health. This will enable the people two
work freely in environment (Baldwin and et.al., 2011). Major policies are also defined with the
role workers, people and specialist in Care UK, so that they can accomplish their defined roles
and responsibilities.
P3 Assessment of risk in health and social care settings.
At the care home UK there are various healthcare users have been given treatments and it
is important to identify the risk and remove it in respect in order remove the discrepancies and
providers getting rid of them (O’Campo and et.al., 2011). Other than this, it is also essential for
care home UK to considered the impact of these hazards and assess the risk which have been
involved in the services of users. Basically there are four types of hazards related to Health and
safety have taken in to consideration which are as follows:
Risk assessment
A B C D E
Hazard Risk (Injury) Chances of
occurrence (1-5)
Risk Controlling
strategy.
Chemicals
used for
cleaning not
kept far from
the patients
Users can gets
injured or
causes breathing
problems due to
smell of such
chemicals.
3 Mediums From the
guidelines given
in policies, all
major chemicals
and acids which
are used should
kept away
patients and kept
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locked.
Unhealthy
working
conditions
This will cause
the major
problems and
causes risk that
attain the results
and outcomes.
5 High Proper
responsibilities
and authorities
given to staff so
that users will
not get affected
problems like
infections.
Infection
spread by staff
like cough and
flu
It is risk that
any one of staff
gets infected
with disease then
it will pass it to
other patients.
2 low As per the health
of staff and
safety policy
staff who are
infected with this
disease will be
given leave or
not required to
come in contact
of other patients.
After analysing all the risk, it should be monitored and precaution need to take as per the chance
of risk.
P4 Possible priorities and responses dealing with incidents.
The first incidents that may arise are considered as fire which can be very dangerous
occurrence and also considered as unpredictable and just because of this reason and just because
of this reason, the panic in the sense causes major damage (Gili and et.al., 2012). Further patients
who are disabled or hearing or visual impairment should be first take out from the hospital.
Second incident took place at the time when equipment was kept openly that can harm the
patient. In such a situation is important to make sure that equipment is removed from the
workplace and patient can be avoided from getting harms.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above report, it has been concluded that health and social care
settings are needed to well managed in all the healthcare service provider's
organisation like care home UK in order to remove all the risk which are faced by
patients and people in society. These organisations are needed to comply with the
legislation and guidelines provided by government in order to remove the risk
which is associated with health and social care settings. Further, from risk
assessment it has analysed that these major discrepancies can be resolved by using
appropriate strategies of controlling risk.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Baldwin and et.al., 2011. Identification of human trafficking victims in health care settings.
Health and Human Rights: An International Journal. 13(1).
Care Quality Commission, 2012. The state of health care and adult social care in England in
2011/12 (Vol. 763). The Stationery Office.
Gili, M., Roca, M., Basu, S., McKee, M. and Stuckler, D., 2012. The mental health risks of
economic crisis in Spain: evidence from primary care centres, 2006 and 2010. The
European Journal of Public Health. 23(1). pp.103-108.
Munn-Giddings, C. and Winter, R., 2013. A handbook for action research in health and social
care. Routledge.
O’Campo and et.al., 2011. Implementing successful intimate partner violence screening
programs in health care settings: evidence generated from a realist-informed systematic
review. Social science & medicine. 72(6). pp.855-866.
Woltmann and et.al., 2012. Comparative effectiveness of collaborative chronic care models for
mental health conditions across primary, specialty, and behavioral health care settings:
systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Psychiatry. 169(8). pp.790-804.
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