Supervisor Responsibilities
Occupational health and Safety is very important aspect in every business. The employer is liable for their workers health and safety at the workplace. We will demonstrate some of the responsibilities of both the employer and the employees. The employer responsibility is to provide a safe working environment for all their staff in the organization. So, it can be a healthy working environment. There also responsible for identifying any hazard’s that might be dangerous for staff members. The employer should ensure that all the employees know their rights and regulations under the act and code. Also, there responsible for checking monthly on all the equipment, if there are any defective cutting machines that can harm
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The workplace hazards should be labeled and have extra caution when dealing with food products because we don’t want to have any accidents in the food like for instance food poisoning and many other issues. Therefore, all workers should have extra caution using clean materials knives and sanitizer and following all the safety standards of the organization. They should be aware of any chemical substances that is in the workplace and follow the instructions carefully especially in the hospital, they should be very caution. The importance of identifying the hazards is to ensure that there is a formal process in the organization, to asses any risks effectively and efficiently that may happen in the workplace. The second point is to eliminate hazards and injuries that may happen to the …show more content…
They usually do inspections without notice, either monthly or yearly. Like for example checking if the employees are wearing their safety equipment when performing their jobs. Sometimes the health and safety inspections would take samples of the food to check it, to make sure that its healthy and doesn’t have any food poison that may affect the patients. They can also do inspections on laundry materials to make sure that its cleaned, sanitized for any uses of the materials or equipment. The importance of workplace inspections it helps prevent incidents at the workplace and reduce injuries. Through inspection examination of the workplace it helps to identify and record any hazards and take a corrective action in the organization. Health and safety will step into and conduct a report to occupational health and safety to make sure that its followed through a management
Under work health and safety laws workers and other people at our workplace must take reasonable care that they do not adversely affect
OSHA obligations include other factors besides keeping your work site safe. A company must also meet certain reporting requirements, posting requirements, and recordkeeping requirements, and you must submit to OSHA inspections. For example, you must report fatal accidents to OSHA within eight hours of their occurrence. You must post an OSHA poster informing workers of their rights and obligations under the law. You must also keep records of your efforts to comply with the law and to prevent injuries and illnesses (OSHA).
HSE- Health and Safety Executive • It is the body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare. • It exists as an independent regulatory act and is in the public interest to reduce work related death serious injury across Britain’s workplace. • Effects all employed in Britain from major injuries. •
One of the policies that city comes up with after March 25th, 1911 was worker safety. After The Triangle factory fire and the number of victims helped peoples to fight for worker safety with reason “ Lives were lost because the need for profit was placed above the importance of worker safety. Outrage about the senseless deaths helped to mobilize a city and a nation to institute policies and legislation for worker safety. ”(Janelle. Hinds,The New York Amsterdam News).
When health and safety legislations, standards, codes, policies and procedures are not obeyed, there could be serious consequences for those involved. To determine if any laws were breached, safety inspectors will be called into the workplace to examine the incident. Inspectors will closely inspect the situation to discover the cause and those involved. There are multiple consequences for breaking health and safety legislations (the more serious the situation, the bigger the consequence). For example: fines could be arranged depending on the offence, which could be priced between $1,000-$100,000.Those liable could possibly be sent to gaol if the incident has resulted with the death of someone or a person has been crucially injured.
OSHA protects employees from dangerous situations. Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace. OSHA 's mission is to assure safe and healthful workplaces by setting and enforcing standards, and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. Employers must comply with all applicable OSHA standards. Employers must also comply with the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act, which requires employers to keep their workplace free of serious recognized hazards (osha.gov).
Task 2 7 / C.P6: Compare the influence of different health and safety laws or policies on health and social care practice in a selected setting There are several different health and safety laws and policies that vary between settings in health and social care aimed towards different legislations that must be followed, and have resulted in improvements in health and social care practice. It is important that these legislations are followed by service providers in order for them to promote safe practice and to fully understand their responsibilities under these legislations. Some of the legislations include the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Care Act 2014, the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Equality Act 2010.
Competency Statement I To establish and maintain a safe, healthy, learning environment. My goal in a child care facility would be to make sure everything is safe for the children along with the staff who would work there. To make sure that the children would want to come back and feel safe at the facility. I would want everything to be healthy for the children as well as the staff also. No one would want their children to come to an unhealthy facility.
As a service we have to comply with these regulations and by having regular meetings such as health and safety, infection control, checks being carried out such as fire compliance, having designated first aiders, file audits, medication audits, live staff observations and regular supervisions to not only provide support to staff and identify any training or support needs but also to highlight any areas that are of concern that could have a detrimental impact on our service
Health and safety at work act 1947 The health and safety at work is the legislation, which covers the employees’ health and safety in the UK. The law requires a high level of management that employers must follow, they must look at risks and assess them and take a sensible measure to prevent these risks from happening. This policy and procedures is for Risk assessments and the fire policy/procedure. This promotes safety because care organisations have to make sure that they are able to provided a safe environment in a health and social care setting.
Now in bathroom at restaurants, grocery stores, malls, and more all have signs saying, “Employees MU ST wash hands,” due to labor laws. In time, the law became one of the most effective measures protecting the health of Americans. The act includes, “Guaranteeing safety of almost all food and cosmetics; and ensuring the safety, quality, and effectiveness of 13,000 prescription and non-prescription drugs and vaccines, all medical devices, and all tissues transplant” (Kubic 3). Over the pass fifty years, the act has been recognized to benefit people’s health. Production of any type of food has increasingly went up with labor laws too.
A poster of HASAWA is usually found at most Health and Social Care settings. This gives a summary of the things you must do. The Health and Safety law applies to all employees and employers whether they are self employed, volunteers, apprentices, mobile workers or home workers. These are the rules they must follow: Employers have responsibilities and they must: Provide and maintain safety equipment ensure materials are properly stored, handled, transported and used provide the correct information, training, instructions and supervision in the workplace and also to make sure employees are aware of
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 These Act inform practices that all staff the responsibility to keep themselves and other around them safe through their actions at work and they must to report any health and safety problems. Also, all staff must to follow policies and procedure when hand handing equipment and they should to work in way that puts other around them in danger. Control of substances and Hazardous to Health Regulations 1992 These regulations inform practices that cleaning materials must to be kept in a locked cupboard. Also, these regulation state that disposable gloves and aprons must to be provided for cleaning and handing chemicals.
Regulatory bodies are set up to monitor schools and provide guidance to them when requested to ensure that the law is upheld at all times. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a body that monitors the legislative framework set out by all organisations. These consist from industrial companies to businesses to educational based organisations. The Health and Safety at work Act 1974 requires schools to comply with all health and safety law.
INTRODUCTION Safety and health in the mining industry has been a growing concern across countries worldwide. There has been a stable improvement of safety performance in the South African mining industry between the year 2003 and 2013, although injuries and fatalities remain high. This raises the concern to improve the health and safety of mine employees (M. da Silva da Mata & F. Kalema, 2013). H.A Strydom & N.D King (2009) states that, for effective managing and development of mining operations in South Africa, health and safety of employees must be an essential component in the industry. Corrective measures should be put into place to ensure that occupational diseases in the mining industry are preventable, not only for the employees but