MOD005911: Risk Management in Healthcare Settings Presentation

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of risk management in healthcare settings. It begins with an introduction to the topic and then delves into the relevant health and safety legislation and regulations applicable to residential care homes. The presentation outlines the responsibilities of both employers and employees, particularly when escorting elderly service users. It explores the process of risk assessment, detailing how to identify, analyze, and evaluate risks. The principles of good risk management are explained, including the importance of recording assessments and fostering good relationships. The presentation also covers the use of personal protective equipment and suggests improvements in health and safety arrangements, concluding with a summary and references.

Risk Management in
Healthcare

Table of Contents
 Introduction
 Health and Safety legislation, regulations
 Employer and employee’s responsibilities
 Risk Assessment
 Principles of good Risk Management
 Improvements in Health and Safety arrangements
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Risk management is process of investigating, assessing and controlling
threats is an organisation's capital and earning. These type of threats or risks
could be having large trait of variety of sources that including financial
uncertainty, legal liabilities, strategic management errors accident and
natural disaster. As per the topics are covering about the Health and Safety
legislation, regulations policies or some sort of procedure. The employees’
responsibilities are when escorting elderly service user to publicly facility.

Health and Safety legislation,
regulations
The health and safety regulations and legislations that will need to
observe by health care assistant in residential care home includes:
 Personal protective equipment at work regulations 1992 - this
regulation seeks to make sure that where risks or hazards cannot be
controlled through other means, personal protective equipment must
be correctly determined as well as put into use.

Employer and Employee’s
Responsibilities
Role of Employees: In context of scenario, the role of employees are plays an
important role towards health care responsibility, as 30 elderly people are
travelling towards specific place. It majorly involves some company related
benefits, disability and workers, compensation evaluation, health promotion,
wellness and fitness to having program, industrial and safety and compliance
measure towards federal regulations.
 Properly wearing personal protective equipment as required.
 Attending the required training sessions.

Risk Assessment
The risk management is process of identifying about assessing and
controlling threats towards an organisation for capital base earning.
These threats or risks could steam from wide variety about sources
which mainly involves about the shortage of financial resources,
strategic management errors and accidents or any type of natural
disaster. The objective of risk management where it effectively ensures
about risk consistent with having prospects to support the achievement
of strategic and corporate decision making.

Principles of good Risk Management
In order to escort 30 elderly service users out on visit to a local public
facility, there are some risk management principles which required to
consider by the healthcare assistant prior to start planning.
1. Identify risk
2. Analyze risk
3. Evaluation of risk
4. Treatment of risk

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Apart from these principles, some other principles include:
 All the risk assessment should be recorded in care records.
 Good relationship between the health care assistant and service
users make the management of risk easier and reduce the risk.
 If the service user is escorted and transported through an unqualified
staff member, it is the responsibility of a qualified clinician to assess
the risk included in transportation.

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Personal protective equipment helps in managing the risk effectively
when engaging externally with elderly service users. It assists in
limiting the exposure to harmful impacts of hazard. Wearing personal
protective equipment will help the care Health Care assistant and its
team members in putting a barrier between them and hazard. However,
while wearing personal protective equipment kit, it is required by care
providers to drink plenty of water as well as check frequent breaks.

Improvements in Health and Safety
arrangements
The improvements that can be made to health and
safety arrangements related to the case scenario of
escort 30 elderly service users out on a visit to a local
public facility includes:
Employing appropriate measures - The health care
workers of several patients at the time of shifting
each one with varying needs and medications.

Conclusion
As per the presentation, it has been concluded that health and safety
regulation explains towards legal and other procedure elaborates
towards residential care home perspective. The employer and employee
have some responsibilities for staff escorting elderly service to
effective as investigate examination as well as pre placement to
conduct business effective manner.

References
 Jessop, Z.M., Dobbs, T.D., Ali, S.R., Combellack, E., Clancy, R.,
Ibrahim, N., Jovic, T.H., Kaur, A.J., Nijran, A., O'Neill, T.B. and
Whitaker, I.S., 2020. Personal protective equipment for surgeons
during. British Journal of Surgery, 107(10), pp.1262-1280.
 Ortega, R., Gonzalez, M., Nozari, A. and Canelli, R., 2020. Personal
protective equipment and Covid-19. New England Journal of
Medicine, 382(26).