Risk Assessment In Health And Social Care

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

3.4 summarise the types of risks that may be involved in assessment in own area of responsibility.

required to prevent any accidents, they are reviewed by each member of staff and then once

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It’s important so that care homes or environments are run in accordance with legislations. So staff adhere to agreed standards and regulations at all times. It also means that service users will not be put at any risk.

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’

The employer or manager – the managers of the home have the responsibilities to ensure that every member of staff understands the obligations of health and safety and that they provide training. It is also the mangers job to make sure the right equipment is provided to avoid injury when moving and handling and that the right protective equipment is also provided. Others in social care setting – Domestic Staff responsibilities are to ensure that all chemicals that are used to clean the care home are locked away safely and to work alongside carers and management to maintain the COSSH policies and procedure and to keep up to date with any changes in the

After considering my above feelings and thoughts I realised that by being aware of the time I spent on the risk assessment, I was able to keep it as necessary and as concise as I had hoped for. Previously I have ran out of time completing the full assessment, meaning that the ending of the assessment is typically missed off. According to Westbrook et al (2007) five or ten minutes is required at the end of treatment to conclude and set up a homework task. Although at the time I was feeling anxious and nervous; attempting to keep track of the time allowed me to achieve the assessment in the time I had allocated myself.

Assessing an adult for sexual recidivism can be a different type of work than evaluating a juvenile, and requires a different set of risk assessment tools. That being said, adult risk assessment tools initially, and continue to inform juvenile risk assessment tools, therefore, a foundational introduction to adult risk assessment is beneficial to better understand juvenile risk assessment (Christiansen & Vincent, 2013; Collie, Ward, & Vess, 2008; Prescott, 2004). Recognizing this need for some foundational understanding of risk assessment, The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) has set forth some guidelines for adult risk assessment.

Within the justice system, clinicians are asked to make a determination of risk for both adult and juvenile offenders. This evaluation of risk is then used by various legal entities to determine if that offender will be required to register as a sex offender. For both adult and juvenile offenders, the specific requirements of sex offender registration can vary dramatically from state to state (Batastini, Hunt, Present-Koller, & DeMatteo, 2011; Viljoen, et al., 2008). This can be problematic if an offender either wishes to reside in a different state then the offense was committed in, or if the offender commits an offense in a state he does not reside in.

6-Risk Assessment SHWW Act Section 19 requires that employers and those who control workplaces to any extent must identify the hazards in the workplaces under their control and assess the risks to safety and health at work. Health and Safety Executive explain five steps of risk assessment that are: a. Identify the hazards b. Decide who might be harmed and how c. Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions d. Record your significant findings e. Review your assessment and update if necessary (HSE, 2016) Risk assessment is carried ot by people who can assess specific work activities, know how work is really done, identify (know) hazards associated with the activities, know likelihood and frequency of activity, and be able to determine actual

There is strengths and weaknesses; threats and vulnerabilities of every organization’s security system. These issues tend to be those of the same at national and global levels; crime and criminology tend to have an impact on it.

The different types of risks applicable to health care settings include clients/patients and HCW’s who may become infected with communicable diseases or have wounds that carry infection. HCW’s handle equipment, materials and waste products that carry infection, and can therefore be infected during the course of their duties, and potentially infect other people who also frequent the same environment.

I have collected, Australian Government charter of residents rights and responsibilities which are protected under the Aged care Act, 1997. It explains residents rights in the residential care in which "resident has the right to accept personal responsibility for his or her own actions and choices, even though these may involve an element of risk, because the resident has the right to accept the risk and not to have the risk used as a ground for preventing or restricting his or her actions and choices"(Department of Health & Welfare,

The health risk appraisal tool that I choose to complete and critique is titled My Life Check (American Heart Association, n.d.). Below is the link to access the tool. http://mylifecheck.heart.org/AssessmentTools2/main_en_US.html. This health risk appraisal tool provides great explanations and is easy to comprehend and can be completed rather quickly. I completed the assessment tool in five minutes. The appraisal tool asks simple questions that pertain to daily lifestyles. I believe this appraisal tool is appropriate for the intended reader, by including layman terminology. Additional information is provided if the individual completing the form needs additional explanation to better understand the