The Impact Of Working Environment At Drayton Manor

Changing circumstances within the workplace can cause hazards because other workers can be put at risk because they haven’t been made aware of the changes and management needs to be informed. Risk assessment is a method put in place that is suitable and sufficient to control the risk to health and safety to both employees and other persons who may be affected.

Over the past five years, as the economy continues to improve, a growing number of workers are returning to jobs in construction. Historically, an increase in employment means that more workers are exposed to hazards that will likely result in more serious and fatal injuries. Among the top four reasons construction workers are injured, falls remain the leading cause of fatal injury (Bethancourt, 2017). Nevertheless, falls are the leading cause of death in construction. According to OSHA, all construction workers exposed to fall hazards more than 6 ft must be provided fall protection in the form of a guardrail, safety net or personal fall arrest system. OSHA (2010) has also stated that personal fall restraint, when applied correctly, is acceptable

Before I start work, I ensure that the environment is spacious to avoid any accidents. By ensuring that the floor is dry and clear of any obstruction or material that could result to risk of an accident to both the service user and member of staff in line with Health and Safety first Aids Regulations 1987. I carry out checks on the residential areas and on the surroundings, fire checks and parked the wheelchairs and Zimmer frames in their appropriate places to avoid any accidents. I check to see that all doors and windows were locked and secured and areas are hazard

resulting risks to employees and any other person who may be affected by work activities.

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:

The aim of workplace risk assessments is to identify hazards, evaluate the degree of risk and to put into place control measures to minimise the risk. If the staff team is not involved in the process then they may have little awareness of the hazards and the actions required of them to minimise the risks. This is at odds with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. A risk assessment

The human resources process has to accompany both the employee and employer in regard to safety issues. An employee wants the assurance of safe and healthy working conditions; anything less exposes danger to their own wellbeing. In addition employees must take heed to precautions design by the organization. However an employer wants to avoid expenditures in overhead by cutting cost or corners often putting their employees at harmful risk. In addition, organizations also have a lawful obligation in which they have to provide a safe workplace by preventing accidents, hazards, serious injuries or accident-related deaths. Negligence on either behalf can result in determination, fines, citations, work-related

Employers are ethically bound to do all they can to ensure that employees do not suffer illness, serious injury or death. They are by law required to carry out risk assessments as any accidents and injuries occurred which have not been risk assessed could inflict significant costs on the company.

.Potential for falling objects – The employer or employee must make sure that all items of equipment, materials and tools that are not in use must be stored/stacked correctly and securely. Otherwise, there is a potential that the item/item may fall and injure a person.

Our management believes that our moral obligation to ensure that our employees are provided with a stimulating and secure work environment on a daily basis.

The following month, David receives another team report that identifies that while signs have been placed up around the office about effective manual handling procedures, one staff member has been off work for 2 days each week during the last month because of a bad back from lifting. What should David do? What kind of changes could David make to existing risk controls to ensure that manual handling injuries are eliminated or drastically reduced?

According to OSHA, lack of fall protection is the most frequency cited violation. For example, construction sites notoriously fail to provide adequate fall protection systems. As a result, this is the leading cause of worker fatalities in the construction industry. On the other hand, any company that requires employees to work on surfaces above six feet will be required to provide adequate guardrail and personal fall protection systems. For example, a regular office-based business that requires maintenance personnel to fix roofing problems will be required to follow federal fall protection standards.

The employers must also add a risk assessments to the health and safety of the workplace the employees work at.

Patient safety is a priority of facilities as well as governmental agencies. Regulatory agencies require data about falls because they have been prioritized as a high-risk problems resulting in fractures, surgeries, disabilities, and even death. Preventing falls is very important, especially if patient safety is a documented as a priority for an organization. According to Dlugacz (2006), regulatory agencies require hospitals and health care organizations to correlate human resource indicators, such as staffing ratios with quality indicators, such as falls. It is believed that lack of appropriate staff plays a part in the number of falls that patients have. However, it was in conclusive that there was a correlation between the number of staff and patient falls. One indicator, such as staffing should not be used as the only determining factor for patient falls because there could be a number of factors such as the patient’s age, illness, level of consciousness, mental state, and environmental factors.

A prime concern for the DFA Acton Quarry is the safety and well-being of the workforce and those who come into contact with the mine and the processing facilities. Aggregates Consulting Ltd. supports a zero tolerance approach to workplace injuries and fatalities, but extends the approach to environmental and social awareness [17].