Report on Participating in Workplace Health and Safety Assessment

This report comprehensively addresses workplace health and safety, encompassing formative and summative assessments. It delves into approved codes of conduct, organizational procedures to meet health and safety obligations, and the importance of risk assessment. The report outlines the role of a fire warden during evacuations, effective communication methods for handling incidents, and procedures for spills and wet floors. It identifies who is responsible for ensuring safety, how to find relevant information, and the deliverables of health and safety training. Furthermore, it explores the reasons for effective accident and incident reporting, record-keeping systems, and the significance of housekeeping. The report also covers handling employee issues, encouraging worker participation, understanding safety signs, hazard identification, and risk assessment. It concludes with a discussion on stress levels in organizations and the implications of stress on injury and disease, alongside a detailed examination of PCBU roles, employee rights, hazard types, and bomb threat responses. The project component provides a full report on participating in work health and safety.

Participate in Workplace
Health and Safety

Table of Contents
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT........................................................................................................1
ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................1
What is an approved code of conduct of practice...................................................................1
List four areas organisations are likely to have procedure to help meet their obligations under
health and safety legislation...................................................................................................1
ACTIVITY 2....................................................................................................................................2
What is risk assessment and why risk assessment is necessary.............................................2
ACTIVITY 3....................................................................................................................................3
Role of fire warden during an evacuation..............................................................................3
Way to communicate about procedure and process in order to handle incidents and accidents
to workers...............................................................................................................................3
What should happen in case of spillage or if floor is wet......................................................3
ACTIVITY 4....................................................................................................................................4
Who is responsible for ensuring safety when planning and conducting work.......................4
How can you find information for ensuring safety while planning or conducting work.......4
Ten deliverables from health and safety training...................................................................4
ACTIVITY 5....................................................................................................................................5
Three reasons for having effective accident and incident report procedure understandable by
employees...............................................................................................................................5
Reason behind having effective record keeping system at work place..................................5
ACTIVITY 6....................................................................................................................................5
Why is house keeping important............................................................................................5
ACTIVITY 7....................................................................................................................................6
Ways to handle issues faced by employees and provide them feedback about their
contribution.............................................................................................................................6
ACTIVITY 8....................................................................................................................................6
Reason behind encouraging workers to take part in meetings and other workplace activities6
ACTIVITY 9....................................................................................................................................7
What does this safety sign mean and what are its distinguish feature....................................7

Addressing and communicating issue regarding proper equipments at workplace to
management............................................................................................................................7
ACTIVITY 10..................................................................................................................................8
Seven elements of hazard identification and risk assessment that plays significant role in
identifying ways to maintain currency of safe work practices...............................................8
Ways to analyse currency of safe work practices is maintained............................................8
ACTIVITY 11..................................................................................................................................8
Ways to determine levels of stress in organisation and livelihood that affects casual factors in
injury and disease and why consider stress at all...................................................................8
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT.....................................................................................................10
Q1. Full form of PCBU and its roles and responsibilities....................................................10
Q2. What are the employee rights and employer obligations regarding consultation on health
and safety matters.................................................................................................................10
Q3. Meaning of Colour yellow (triangle), red (Circle with diagonal), green and blue (circle) in
safety signs...........................................................................................................................10
Q4. what does sign refers to:................................................................................................10
Q5. What are hazards?..........................................................................................................10
Q6. Three types of hazards...................................................................................................10
Q7. How you respond to bomb threat at work?....................................................................11
Q8. Three health and safety procedures expected at workplace..........................................11
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT 2..................................................................................................12
PROJECT 1....................................................................................................................................12
Report on participating in work health and safety................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTIVITY 1
What is an approved code of conduct of practice
Code of conduct are activities written for workers and set benchmarks for area of
working for an health and social organisation. There are some code of conduct which has to be
followed by workers working at health and social care organisations. This makes business
operations appropriate and relevant in context of understanding of requirement of patient (Wei
and et. al., 2016). So there are some approved practices which makes operations of organisation
valid and authentic. Some code of conduct are as under-
 Workers must be accountable for their working and actions which they expected to taken.
In case of any omission, they are liable to give relevant justification behind it.
 There must be proper privacy, respect to individual who is using health and care services
because they come from different backgrounds. Hence with dignity and respect they are
able to feel satisfied.
 Workers must work in collaboration with other worker, so there is synchronisation in
their activities. This gives high quality services to clients and possibilities of providing
best services is more.
 There must be proper and open communication in order to provide better services to
clients. With proper communication, there is proper and well being services can be
provided.
 There are different person at health and care organisation availing services, so it is
important to respect right of confidentiality of individual.
 While providing health and care services, there must be promotion of equality, diversity
among people. Hence there is diversification at health and care organisation (Stanhope
and Lancaster, 2015).
List four areas organisations are likely to have procedure to help meet their obligations under
health and safety legislation
There are different areas which has to be followed by managers at health and social
organisations but it is important to meet all the obligations under which health sector. First area
is patient level. As there are different patients serving from different issues, so they are provided
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with best services. It is important that managers of health and social organisation , must work
within proper code of conduct under which dignity and respect of patient has to be considered.
Second level is care team level (Vaismoradi, Jordan and Kangasniemi, 2015). At this level, there
are different workers working in organisation. Hence there must be proper rules and regulations
which has to be followed regarding act such as proper training, proper working environment, etc.
At third level, organisation is considered. As per this level, there are different aspects
which has to be considered such as legal regulations such as equality act, compensation act, etc.
This makes positive environment at work place. While fourth area is social responsibility. These
days, there are many social issues arise in society such as improper use of natural resources, ill-
effect on society, etc. Hence this is the area which has to be considered while planning for
different operations in context of patient and its betterment.
ACTIVITY 2
What is risk assessment and why risk assessment is necessary
Risk assessment is the process through potential risk which may arise with conducting
different activities are evaluated. Risk assessment is cornerstone which prevents any mis -
happening such as accidents and ill health at health and social organisation. At health and safety
organisation, there are different types of risk which may be high low, hence with assessment
possibilities of accidents are low. In risk assessment different aspects are evaluated such as what
can harm, how it could be eliminated and preventive actions for it. Risk assessment has to be
done experienced individuals because they have knowledge about aspects and accidents which
can arise in future (Smith, 2016 ).
Risk assessment is important because it assist in proper planning through which
possibilities of accident at workplace is low. This creates awareness among work force regarding
change in working style through proper implementation of code of conduct. When accidents are
less, then brand image of health and social organisation improves. When proper assessment is
done by management of health and social care, then cost can be saved because there is no
duplication of activities.
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ACTIVITY 3
Role of fire warden during an evacuation
There are possibilities of fire at health and social care organisation, hence fire warden has
to act quickly through which they can get over with emergency situation. Hence there are
different roles and responsibilities which has to played by fire warden. Apart from roles and
responsibilities there must be proper plan through which they can prepare for it and resolve
situation potentially. Some roles of fire warden while evacuation are as under-
 Direct individuals to leave premises with use of emergency exist and does not use lift.
 Fire warden must proper evaluate that everyone was evacuated from bathroom and other
such places. So fire warden does not have to re- enter in premises.
 Assemble all the people at one place and analyse all individuals are arrived or not. Close
the doors in order to isolate fire and does not get harm from it (Sadłowska-Wrzesińska,
2019).
Way to communicate about procedure and process in order to handle incidents and accidents to
workers
There are different ways through which workers can acknowledge about handling
incidents and accidents such as meeting, official mail, notice board, etc. these are the ways with
which existing employees can solve their problem. But there are new workers as well who have
to be educated regarding change in working style. For new workers there are induction program
under which they are acknowledge with changes which are taking place in handling accidents
and incidents. Training is provided to new and existing employees, through which they become
practically aware about challenges they can face while working at health and social organisation.
Apart from this there are formal e- mails to workers through which they can know how to
resolve issue arise while providing best services to consumers.
What should happen in case of spillage or if floor is wet
In case of spillage or wet floor at entrance lobby, wash room, etc., there are possibilities
of major accidents with workers and people working there. There are possibilities that
individuals near by that area may get slips and they get physically injured (Rodger and Kennedy-
Behr, 2019). This may cause major issues, so some recommendations are as under through
which possibilities of accidents can be reduced-
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Do not keep wet area secret, there must be some sign boards or barricades through which
individuals get know about it. There should be blockage at the place of wet or spillage.
Equipments of cleanliness should be handy, so there is no major negative impact of it. While
choosing floor mats for health and social organisation, it should be considering regarding wet
floor. There should be proper timing under which individuals does not went at wet places.
ACTIVITY 4
Who is responsible for ensuring safety when planning and conducting work
There are many employees, clients and patients are available at health and social
organisation. Workers are planning to provide best services to patient to enhance their
satisfaction. There is risk to workers also while they are working and planning activities, hence
employer is responsible for ensuring safety when they are planning and conducting operations at
workplace. This provides satisfaction to workers as well that they are safe and working in sound
circumstances.
How can you find information for ensuring safety while planning or conducting work
In order to access information regarding safety while planning or conducting work,
employer or managers at health and social organisation has to analyse past incidents. Experience
of senior employees can be helpful in analysing safety while working. There are some incidents
which can be helpful for collecting information in different and efficient manner. There are many
individuals which are working at health and social organisation, so there are possibilities that
they had some bad experience which is helpful in analysing security measures while planning
and conducting operations at health and safety organisations (Kwan, Tuckey and Dollard,
2016Jimmerson, 2017).
Ten deliverables from health and safety training
Training is one of the most important aspect in current market. With change in working
style of health and social organisation. There are different deliverable which achieve through
training of workers such as Increment in employees efficiency, increment in future potential,
enhancement in skills, improves quality of working, ready to work under dynamic environment,
competes with external parties, abides legal code of conduct, etc.
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ACTIVITY 5
Three reasons for having effective accident and incident report procedure understandable by
employees
There are different major and minor incidents happening at health and social care
organisation this affects satisfaction of patients. As there are many workers working in health
and social organisations, so in case there is any accidents, then manager has to register it
properly through which they can perform action in abiding it. With proper report regarding
accidents and incidents-
 Employees can understood about ways through which accidents can be avoided. This
assist in reduction number of accidents and providing better services to consumers.
 There will be awareness among workers and this improves their working style.
Benchmarks can be set easily regrading working style of employees (Hayes, Douglas and
Bonner, 2015).
 This assist for future use for acknowledging new employees about cases of accidents.
Reason behind having effective record keeping system at work place
With keeping records properly, it is easy for managers of health and social organisation
to provide justification behind specific action of particular incident. These records can be used
for legal purpose as well. While training of workers, these are used to access them practical
knowledge and ways to deal with issues faced by association. With prop[er recoding keeping,
there is transparency in working style of employees and hence there is synchronisation in health
care activities.
ACTIVITY 6
Why is house keeping important
House keeping is one of the important depart in organisation providing services to health
and social organisation regarding cleanliness. At health organisations, there are different patient
suffering from different issues such as skin problem, illness, mental disorder, etc. Housekeeping
department is important because this assist in keeping floor clean, less possibilities of getting hit
with falling items, etc. With house keeping department, there is proper cleanliness and hence
possibilities of disinfection is less.
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ACTIVITY 7
Ways to handle issues faced by employees and provide them feedback about their contribution
Management of health and social organisation should regularly communicate with
workers regarding working experience. This communication can be done in meeting or personal
interview. These communication should be done in familiar manner through which employees
can share their issues easily. For instance, employees faced some issue, then management has to
resolve it and provide best solution to them. Management of health organisation should ask with
employees regarding ways through which issues can be resolved. This is the best way because
workers are actually facing issue, so they might have better solution. When issue gets resolved,
provided solution has to be communicate and after implementing it, working experience has to
be asked from employee (Hammer and et. al., 2016).
ACTIVITY 8
Reason behind encouraging workers to take part in meetings and other workplace activities
Workers at health and social work place plays important role for providing better services
to consumers. They are the asset who deal with patient and their different issues. So when
workers participate in meetings and other activities, then they are able to understand current
issues and ways to deal with it. Meting are organised to discuss on some important and crucial
topic. When employee attend meting and other activities, there is cooperation among them and
they are ready to work with each other. Possibilities of personal conflict is less and it is easy for
manager to communicate about working style easily and it assist in analysing issues faced by
different workers and ways to deal with it.
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ACTIVITY 9
What does this safety sign mean and what are its distinguish feature
This is the safety sign of no use of mobile phones. At health and social organisation, there
are many patients suffering from different issues, hence staff and relatives are not allowed to use
mobile phones. There is disturbance because of it, as people use mobile phones, then thy click
photographs, talk with high pitch which disturbs patient and gives ill- effect on their health.
Addressing and communicating issue regarding proper equipments at workplace to management
While working at health and social care organisation, workers works to take healthy and
heavy patients to ward and he is not allowing to use mechanical lifter due to supervisor
instruction. Individual feels difficult to make patient walk from one place to another but he did it
with the help of 4- 5 other individuals. It is very difficult and sometimes individuals are not
available (Friend and Kohn, 2018).
This can be communicated to management through written document or through
complaint box. Individual can communicate through official mail and they can direct contact
with top level of management where they can interact and tell their experience without
mechanical lifter. Face to face communication is best and this provides solution as well of this
problem. With proper communication regarding it, individuals gets resolved with the issue and
able to complete assigned task easily.
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ACTIVITY 10
Seven elements of hazard identification and risk assessment that plays significant role in
identifying ways to maintain currency of safe work practices
While working at health and social care organisation, there are some hazards activities
which has to be considered while conducting operations at work place. There are sic hazards
such as physical chemical, ergonomic, radiation, psychological, biological. These are the hazards
which affects working style of employees but It is important to make strategies which are
specific and relevant in context of working style of association. At last seventh hazard is allergy.
With the help of these elements there is difference in working style which are specific and
relevant for understanding how to work to get positive impact. Main currency elements are-
infection control, proper reporting of incidence, use of personal protective equipment and
hazardous manual (Kwan, Tuckey and Dollard, 2016).
Ways to analyse currency of safe work practices is maintained
In order to access working practices, legal documents can be accessed. There are many
workers working at health organisation, they can be interviewed. In order to maintain decorum,
relatives of patients can also interviewed regarding treatment with patients and improvement in
their health. When consumers are satisfied then working style of overall organisation is up to the
mark. If employees of health and safety organisation are satisfied then they are performing
operations in better and relevant manner. When condition of employee is improved then currency
at work place is maintained.
ACTIVITY 11
Ways to determine levels of stress in organisation and livelihood that affects casual factors in
injury and disease and why consider stress at all
There are different types of stress in organisation such as task demand, role demand,
interpersonal demand and physical demand. These stress levels affects working style of
individuals because of change if individual is not satisfied with work place, then they are not
able to give best, this affects perform of whole health and social organisation. Mental, physical
and emotional factors affects injury and providing bet services to patient. Reason of stress is
colleagues and working condition at health and social organisation. As there are individuals from
different geographical reasons, so there is difference in their values, cultures, etc. Hence there is
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requirement of respect and dignity of individuals to reduce possibilities of stress (Sadłowska-
Wrzesińska, 2019).
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