Unit 3 P4 Health And Social Care

What are your responsibilities under current health and safety legislation, standards and guidance, eg the Health & Safety at Work Act (and any other relevant legislation).

1.2 Draw your organisational chart using this as a guide and assess the responsibilities in a specific health and social care workplace for management of health and safety in relation to organisational structures Manager: In the social care home where I work, the manager is also the healthcare manager. His responsibility is to arrange training for us the employees on health and safety. This trainings make the employees to be familiar with regulations like RIDDOR, Health and Safety at Work Regulations, among others with their legislative requirement. Aside from training, the responsibility of the manager is in providing equipment important for health and safety.

In every Health and social care setting, each person has a certain responsibility. Each care worker should be responsible for their own actions with regard to protecting themselves and others from infection. Throughout this essay I will be discussing the roles and responsibilities of care and non-care workers, managers and specialist personnel.

Cleaning policy states that health and social care providers must provide and maintain a clean and appropriate environment in managed premises that facilitates the prevention and control of infections. The cleaning policy allows there to be a low risk of infections as staff’s are cleaning the areas for example, in a care home the service users may be ill and by the staffs cleaning they could clean the equipment’s that the service users may have used such as wheelchairs which may contain the service users germs and bacteria and by the staff cleaning the service users equipment’s their preventing infections from passing on to

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

M1 – I am also going to describe how health and safety legislation, policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals in a health or social care setting.

UNIT 3 — HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ithin health and social care there are many hazards that can arise, it is therefore important o ensure that healthy and safety requirement,s-are met at all times. A hazard can be anything that causes harm to an individual or patihem at risk of harrrAAome examples of hazards in the workplace in a health and social care setting can include health and social care settings meets the needs of clients and patients with the involvement in a variety of activities. The responsibilities of care workers are focused to a range of health and safety legislation. For each workplace activity a safe system of work is implemented, staff will have to receive appropriate training and their equipment

Understand own responsibilities, and responsibilities of others, relting to health and safety in the work setting.

No Secrets – Guidance published by the Department of Health, builds upon the governments respects for human rights and highlights the need to protect vulnerable adults through effective multi-agency work.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF A CARE WORKER 1. The responsibilities of a care worker include personal support, others well being, providing support to peoples nutritional/ hydration needs. Responsibilities may also include helping service users with development activities, monitoring health and providing support within the 6Cs care, compassion, competence, communication, commitment and courage. The scope of the role helps to ensure that you as care workers are working within your competence. 4.

Legislations/codes of practice relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting are: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; Riddor 1995, COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health); Manual Handling operations regulations 1992; Health And Safety (First aid regulations 1981); Fire protection (Workplace) Regulations 1997; Food Safety Act 1990; Personal Protective Equipment and Management of Health and safety at work regulations 1999.

Assignment: Keeping People Safe Unit 7: Principles of Safe Practice in Health and Social Care A: Examine how duty of care contributes to safe practice in health and social care settings B: Understand how to recognise and respond to concerns about abuse and neglect C: Investigate the influence of health and safety legislation and policies in health and social care settings D: Explore procedures and responsibilities to maintain health and safety and respond to accidents and emergencies in health and social care settings Task 1: Evaluate significance of duty of care, explaining its significance in promoting safe practice, Evaluate significance of complaints procedure in promoting safe practice, and justifies the procedures used when responding

working in the care environment we must ensure safe and good practise is provided. We are influenced and have such provides to help us gain knowledge such as national factors such as; codes of practise, national occupational standards, legislations and government initiatives. Working in the care environment it is an legal requirement to have an inspection every now and then, which must meet agreed national standards. If not, to result in the home being shut down. Also, the ways of working are set out in legislation and government papers. Every nursing home will have there own policy and procedures which you are able to read for guidance. Also caring and providing for people it is important we behave in a professional manner.

There are many legislation acts relating to health and safety. These include :- • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulation (COSHH) • Manual Handling legislation 1992 • Reporting of injuries, dies eases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR) • Food Safety Act 1990 • Health and Safety First Aid Regulations 1981 1.2 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 states the employer, employees and service users have a responsibility to ensure safety is well maintained in your place of work. Policies and procedures protect people by providing a set of rules and regulations that must be followed by care staff and organisations.

The various policies and procedures are in place to protect vulnerable people, staff and visitors to maintain their health and eliminate risk and dangers. The policies and procedure also allow all member of staff follow similar Buidelines and ensure that they all know what to do in an event of an emergency The social care worker- the social worker is responsible for the care of their own health as well as other people health and safety. To do this, the social worker has to cooperate with their setting health and safety policy, record keeping and reporting anything that in health and safety issues that concerns them, for example faulty equipment and suspicious bruising on a patient.