Health & Safety in Care Settings: Preventing Infection - MOD05911

This presentation provides an overview of infection prevention in care settings, focusing on gastroenteritis as a significant hazard. It identifies common hazards within the employees' working environment and justifies the importance of infection prevention. The presentation describes the responsibilities of both employers and employees in maintaining a safe environment, including providing education, ensuring treatment, conducting risk assessments, and updating policies. It outlines practical interventions to reduce identified risks to staff and service users, such as hand decontamination, using personal protective equipment, proper waste disposal, immunization, and preventing dehydration. The conclusion emphasizes that gastroenteritis is triggered by contamination and inflammation of the digestive system, highlighting the need for awareness and prevention among care staff. The presentation references several sources to support its claims and recommendations.

Health Safety
in
Care settings

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION
▪ Overview of infection prevention relevant to the employees.
▪ Identification of common hazard within employees working environment.
▪ Justification of chosen topic.
▪ Describe responsibilities of employers and employees.
▪ Practical interventions to reduce the identified risk to staff and service user.
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
▪ Infection prevention is a practical based approach
implied with the purpose of eliminating or preventing
avoidable infections which are possible to produce
harmful effects.
▪ Infectious diseases transmit by either person to person,
directly or indirectly.
▪ Personal hygiene plays a key role in prevention of
infection.

Overview of infection prevention relevant to the employees.
▪ People living in residential homes are more prone to
infections as living and working together is most likely
to be associated with sharing of germs.
▪ Infections can be serious in few cases and life
threatening in some too.

Identification of common hazard within employees working
environment.
▪ The viral as well as bacteria gastroenteritis is generally
the main cause of most of the attacks of diarrhoea
within the nursing residential care homes.
▪ In this, the older people generally do not create
adequate amount of gastric acids as well as are at
higher risk of improving a contaminated
gastroenteritis.

Justification of chosen topic.
▪ The chosen topic regarding the infection prevention
such as gastroenteritis, can affect the care workers
more significantly.
▪ The main aim of doing the topic is to aware the
people and care staff workers that they must prevent
them from coming in contact with the infection.

Describe responsibilities of employers and
employees.
▪ Provide education and information's
▪ Ensure the treatment
▪ Risk Assessment
▪ Review and update the policies
▪ Action against complaints and incidents in relation to
infection prevention
▪ Communication, action and documentation

Practical interventions to reduce the identified risk to
staff and service user.
▪ Decontaminating the hands
▪ Using personal protective equipment's
▪ Waste disposal
▪ Immunization
▪ Prevent dehydration

CONCLUSION
▪ From the above discussion, it is concluded that the
gastroenteritis is a disorder that is specifically
triggered by the contamination as well as
inflammation of the digestive system.
▪ In this, the more typical symptoms can involve
abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhoea.

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CONT.
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