A Brief Note On The Lone Working Policy

* Within such an environment it would be difficult to ensure the safety of the company employees.

Although the Health and Safety at work etc. Act 1974 provides criminal legislation for employers, there are various key health and safety requirements that identify a duty of care owed to an employee by an employer, that have been set via precedents. This essay aims to identify the key health and safety requirements owed by an employer to an employee, deriving from common law, including the principle of vicarious liability

|Explain how to create a safe and suitable environment for practitioners and clients | |Every organisation should have specific safety policies and plans tailored to their business and work environment, depending on| |what type of safety issues are relevant. By training all employees thoroughly in the safety policies, the organisation can | |ensure that an environment or situation is safe for all. Additionally, seeking the involvement of staff in drawing up plans or | |adding to them is an excellent way to obtain “buy in” and maintain compliance. | |When practitioners meet

They must also ensure that workplaces and work activities do not put visitors, members of the public and others at unnecessary risk.

• To adhere to the post holders own responsibilities for health and safety within the workplace and to colleagues, service users, and the general public.

In the workplace employees need to put these safe ways of working into practice; for

Risk assessment and risk management are an essential part of adult social care but it is often difficult to balance empowerment with the duty of care we owe our clients. For individuals to be able to lead independent lives, the risks they choose to take need to be constantly weighed up against the likelihood of significant harm arising from that choice and the situation in question. In section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 states ‘it shall be the duty of every employer to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety’

To ensure that the clients are living in an environment that is safe and promotes independence there is training and policies and procedures in place which ensure that staff inform management on health and safety issues they find around the home and this needs to be acted on with immediate effect.

Section 2 Be able to recognise hazards in the work setting and during off site visits

• make sure that employees who work alone, or off-site, can do so safely and healthily

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My employer has a responsibility to provide a safe working environment which has safe access to and from my workplace including individual child’s homes and in community, and provide a risk assessment for all hazards which is reviewed and updating regular intervals. Risk assessment are done to identify and assess the risks and to try to avoid, assess and reduce the risks to the client, employees and employers whilst in the client own home, out in the community, play schemes and Grace Little centre. It is required by Law (Management of Health and Safety at Work regulations 1999) that employers are to complete a risk assessment to assess and identify

It is everyone’s responsibility to maintain health and safety within the work place following company policies and procedures along with the legal requirements set out in government standards for social care settings.

Some individuals cannot cope with being watched over when working as they tend to become worried and over concerned, as they feel pressured and will fail in their task. Repeated episodes of these types of ailment can result in a serious condition, which might lead to ill-health. This type of individual copes better when working by themselves as they feel they are not being analysed or scrutinised. They create their own reality of the workplace and though they do not belong to the team they feel

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