Outline How Legislation, Policies and Procedures Relating to Health, Safety and Security Influence Health and Social Care Settings.

How legislation, policies and procedures relate to health, safety and security in a health and social care setting and how legislation, policies and procedures promote safety of individuals in a health and social care setting.

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

Risk assessment- An assessment of any risks to the worker's health and safety is undertaken by a trained risk assessor. This allows for the risks to be removes, reduced or avoided, and for preventive and protective measures to be identifies and

1.1- Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

As health care workers we are under a legal obligation to protect an individual from any kind of abuse, whether it is physical, financial, emotional, sexual or psychological .Legislation, policies and procedures exist to promote a safer working environment and reduce the potential for risks occurring. They are tailored for the needs of each setting, known and understood by employers and employees and reviewed on a regular basis.

All healthcare workers are required to report anything that effects the environment. For example speaking to a senior staff member or manager straight away, explaining the problem so it can be dealt with properly. Reportable incidents: deaths, major injuries, some work-related diseases; dangerous occurrences – where something happens that does not result in an injury, but could have done; registered gas fitters must also report dangerous gas fittings they find, and gas conveyors/suppliers must report some flammable gas incidents. RIDDOR applies to all work activities but not all incidents are reportable

P1 – Explain potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health and social care setting.

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:

1. Identify legislation relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting.

Ravandeep Kaur (Group B) Unit 3: Health, Safety and Security in Health and Social Care

Gathering information from available sources: With the use of tracking Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs), the information provided on existing medical, safety, and insurance records, including the OSHA 300 forms, could help provide any evidence for ergonomic hazards at the workplace. (Gortsch, 2011)

From the last three years, it has become hard to assess the impact of mandatory reporting. It requires other considerable changes to the regulatory plan. In many healthcare organizations, new systems are designed and implemented to improve the safety of a patient. The changes in the new systems and discussion around the patient safety heightened the health care’s awareness of these problems. Therefore, in this complex environment, it is hard to extricate the precise impact of mandatory reporting. Doctors face many hurdles such as; lack of timing, lack of privacy, and humiliation. The national law has formed the perception of an obstacle to health admittance and Mandatory reporting clearly weaken the objective of National law having its target on patient safety. (http://www.health.gov.au).

RIDDOR is the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013. RIDDOR is the compulsory, so you must follow its instruction, RIDDOR states you must report and keep records of any and all work-related accidents which cause death or serious injuries. You must also report any and all cases of industrial diseases diagnosed at work as well as dangerous occurrences that have to potential to cause harm.

Impairment through timely reporting of injuries, early intervention, prompt treatment and accommodation of temporary work restrictions as may be required under the circumstances