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When working in the setting it is important that you follow all policies and procedures. The health and safety polices include safe guarding, staff development and training and admissions. In the setting they work with the local safeguarding children board, this means that we protect the children and all staff are fully trained. In the setting it is important to make sure that all the staff and volunteers have a DBS check and are suitable to work with children. It is also important that staff are always reminded of the policies and procedures by reading some every month. It is also important that staff are given courses to attend to make sure that they are all up to

Employers must always make sure that everyone’s health & safety is maintained at all times but they should also make sure that there organisation is up to relevant standards as everyone has the right to work in a safe secure work environment.

In a Health and social care setting it involves working with people with lots of different variety of needs, hopes, wishes and backgrounds. Within the setting we have an organisation that is call ‘Duty of Care’ towards the people that cannot look after them self’s. This means that it is the careers responsibility to keep the individual (service users) safe from any harm, Abuse and injury they may cause to them self’s or others within that setting. ‘Duty of Care’ doesn’t only apply to care workers only it also applies to people that are on the premises have the same responsibility as the care workers. Even if you are not directly responsible for the care of a service users, you will still have owe them a duty of care.

To have a duty of care in my own work role is to ensure that the young people and other colleagues I work with are kept safe and free from harm. This is from the basic needs of the young people I support; to ensuring that they are well provided and looked after, to making sure they have their medication that they need at the right time and dose etc. For each young person we have at Amberleigh, they each have their own risk assessment which all staff must follow to ensure that the young person is kept safe and free from harm. This will also help to protect the workers who work alongside the young

take reasonable care for your own health and safety while at work and ensure your acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other workers in your workplace;

Duty of care in my own work role is to ensure that my service users are given quality care services always, and that I must follow the codes of practice and policies and practices of my organisation. It is my responsibility to keep my knowledge and understanding up-to-date regarding these policies.

The primary responsibility for employee health and safety lies with the individual. Employees must always perform their work in a safe and healthful manner. Work areas are to be kept neat and clean and proper

The Healthy And Safety Work act is a law that states that at every work place has to have regular checks in their workplace to see if everything is safe to work with especially in an engineering workplace. There needs to be regular risk assessments and maintenance checks on machines. If these checks were not in place employees can get really badly injured which is dangerous and makes it all the more reason to have it in place.

It is my duty of care to ensure my training, skills and knowledge are up to date to ensure service users receive the best possible care per Carer’s code of conduct and the legal and moral requirements set out for me as a care assistant. It is also my duty of care to ensure I report and record any accidents or incidents that occur, the day to day health of an individual for example, documenting when a service user is unwell and contacting the appropriate health professional, documenting any concerns the service user has regarding their health and monitoring administering of medications and whether there are adverse reactions or abuse of

Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (the HSW Act), you have to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the H&S of yourself and ‘others’ who may be affected by what you do or do not do. It applies to all work activities and premises and everyone at work has responsibilities under it.

Employees are reminded of their Duty of Care to service users. This means employees have an obligation to report breaches of standards of care , poor practice and abuse.

1.1- To have the duty of care in a care setting means to provide safety for all service users, to give them choice no matter what their capacity is. It is my responsibility to provide all the best services possible, making sure that their health and wellbeing is being looked after by all staff. You must follow all works policies and procedures to provide the quality of care they need and wish. You must make sure that you are adhering to all their needs in their best interests. Although they may have the right to do things such as go out alone or know passcodes on doors doesn’t mean its at their best interests, so you are there to provide the duty of care for that service user and have evidence at why you think it is not for their best interest, and to support them in any choice they make. TC 34.1.1

Your business has legal responsibilities to provide safe and healthy conditions for your employees, customers, suppliers and anyone else who could be affected by your activities. Your business can also benefit from good health and safety at work. Effective health and safety practices pay for themselves, because they help you avoid staff illness, accidents and the costs associated with them. They can also improve your reputation with customers, regulators and employees.

Duty of care; guidance on the role of a social care worker to provide the best practice.

Everyone be it in the workplace or on a construction site is responsible for health, safety and Welfare. The main