Unsafe Work Practice Nvq 5

All workers have a right to work in places where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Everyone has a duty to comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, including employers, employees, trainees, self-employed, manufacturers, designers, suppliers and importers of work equipment. The employers’ responsibilities under this act include:

7 / D.P7: Explain how different procedures maintain health and safety in a selected health or social care 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.

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.

P6 Explain safe working practises necessary in preparing, cooking and serving food in the health and social care environment

A study was done to view just how much horizontal violence could affect patient safety and it was found that there was an increase in patient falls and a delay in care due to nurses not communicating to one another or not wanting to help a fellow coworker when asked

Protective equipment - "Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer 's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemicals, biohazards, and airborne particulate matter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment

Users of health and social care should be given best qualities of care by implementing policies, legislations, and regulations which are related to the services. In my workplace, employees must follow the Data Protection act 1998, which says no employees should reveal important information of any service users only to those who should know or have the right to have the information. For health and safety at work must be observed by storing away all harmful chemicals and substances are properly stored away in a cupboard with a lock that can only be accessed by the designated employee. Medications are kept are also kept and only by the line manager on duty for

abuse: When the service user lives with the carer, it may increase the chances for abuse to occur as this situation may cause stress and resentment if the carer feels he/she cannot cope. Not properly trained staff who do not receive any supervision or support at work, as well as stressed staff who are going through personal problems, or who do not like working in the care sector, may increase the risk of an individual being abused. In addition, patients who are not mobile, are confused, suffer from dementia or are aggressive or challenging, may also present an increase for the risk of an individual being abused, since the carer

The policy, legislation, regulation and Codes of Practice will assure the protection of the health and social workers and service users at all times form any injury, harm or abuse.

Health and safety legislation applies rules to persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU). A key part of legislation is to make these people officers and apply rules towards these individual’s duty of care. They cannot opt out of this responsibility. In short, duty of care refers to a work environment being safe and secure.

We will undergo tracer methology review process to assess standard of compliance. Tracer Methodology utilizes the patient care experience to assess standards compliance. At the beginning of the on-site survey, the surveyor(s) will select patients from the organization’s files. The surveyor(s) will ‘trace’ the patient’s experience, looking at services provided by various care providers and departments within the organization, as well as ‘hand-offs’ between them. This type of review is designed to uncover systems issues, looking at both the individual components of an organization and how the components interact to provide safe, high-quality patient care (The Joint Commission,

• Provide a workplace free from recognized hazards • Provide and use means to make your workplace safe • Prohibit employees from entering, or being in, any workplace that is not safe • Prohibit alcohol and narcotics from your workplace • Prohibit employees from using tools and equipment that are not safe • Establish, supervise, and enforce rules that lead to a safe and healthy work environment • Control chemical agents • Protect employees from biological agents

The strict OSHA regulations I think are for everybody’s own safety. I think the regulations from OSHA are valid and fair. OSHA is a good thing to keep the hospitals clean and safe. Also OSHA describes and gives employees instructions on how to deal with the types of chemicals used. What could happen if we did not have this intervention by the government hospitals would be disorganized. Also the hospitals could have biohazard, chemicals, and a messed up system.

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).