Develop Health and Safety and Risk Management Policies, Procedures and Practices in Health and Social Care or Children and Young People's Settings

M1) Describe how health and safety legislation, policies and procedures promote of individuals in a health or social care setting

Potential hazards involved in a health and social care environment therefore I will be explaining 10list of hazards in health care sector. My chosen service user group is the elderly infirm. The working environment in which I will be identifying the hazards is a nursing home for the elderly. When you’re working with elderly it is important that you take health and safety into consideration, this because the elderly are started to become really weak and frail, their movement start to become

To ensure all PPE is put back in the allocated spots for others to use.

Employers have duties under health and safety law to assess risks in the workplace. Risk assessments should be carried out that address all risks that might cause harm in the workplace. Employers must give employees information about the risks in their workplace and how they are protected, also instruct and train their employees on how to deal with the risks. Employers must consult employees on health and safety issues. Consultation must be either direct or through a safety representative that is either elected by the workforce or appointed by a trade union. It is an employees duty to take reasonable care of their own health and safety. If possible avoid wearing jewellery or loose clothing if operating machinery. If the employee has long hair or wears a headscarf, make sure it's tucked out of the way (it could get caught in machinery). To take reasonable care not to put other people such as fellow employees and members of the public at risk by what they do or don't do in the course of their work. To co-operate with the employer, making sure the employee gets proper training and the employee understands and follows the company's health and safety policies. Not to interfere with or misuse anything that's been provided for their health, safety or welfare. To report any injuries, strains or illnesses they suffer as a result of doing their job (the employer may need to change the way they work). To tell their employer if something

Major injuries including fractures, dislocations, loss of sight, poisoning, unconsciousness and any injury resulting in someone needing resuscitation, any incidents leading to someone having to take a leave of absence from work for more than three days, Reportable injuries such as hepatitis, HIV, meningitis and tuberculosis. Or any potential dangerous occurrences that may not have lead to injury or disease such as fires, needle-stick injury and collapse of lifting equipment. Reporting all these incidents allows the council or HSE to investigate why and how they occurred and ways in which to prevent them happening again in the future.

Under this act, employers are responsible for reporting certain types of incidents, accidents or illnesses to the Health and Safety Exectutive, or the local authority.

Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:

Section 2 of the HSW Act deals with employersʹ duties, and states: ʺIt shall be the duty of all employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health safety and welfare of all their employees whilst they are at work.ʺ

If you have concerns about the care and safety of service users and feel like you can’t go to your manager then you have the option to contact some big and confidential organisations such as Care Quality Commission (CQC) or Health and Safety Executive (HSE) or environmental health who can also offer support and information and give you any answers you may need to any concerns.

Under the Health & Safety at work Act I have many responsibilities as an employee. These responsibilities must be obeyed in order to maintain a safe working area and minimize any potential hazards or risks to yourself or others. Some of my responsibilities as an employee are as followed:

An act is another form of law these acts are laws made by a group of legislators. An example would be a President's first official act would be to sign a bill. “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” In this quote by, Aristotle he is saying that laws even though they are written down they do not always remain unchanged or unedited. Laws are changing all the time even though we as citizens of the U.S don’t know this. They are changed to better enforce order and fit in the government. Bills

Employees are responsible to ensure they conduct themselves in a manner that is not harmful to their or another’s health and safety.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) set a wide standard of duties on all employers. Employers have the responsibility to protect the health, safety and welfare of all their employees at work and other members of staff including temporary, casual workers, the self-employed, visitors and the general public. It also involves taking steps to control slip and trip risks. Employees have a duty not to put themselves or others in danger, and must use any safety equipment provided.

Legislation is the making of a law, it starts off as a bill and if approved by the house of laws and the House of Lords it will then become an act of parliament.

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