Introduction
At the workplace, health and safety processes play an important role in protecting employees and employers against several hazards such as disease, injury, accident, violence, etc. In order to enhance the productivity of the staff members, there is a requirement of different health and safety policies and other relevant frameworks. In the present time, health and social care organizations are starting to put safety first over higher quality care services (Frieden, 2013). The actions against health and safety reduced accident losses, minimize absenteeism, help to make the care workers more efficient and improve the organizational image in front of service users, business partners and other rival organizations. The present study is based on health and safety and in order to determine its significance in the context of health and social care organizations, the Care home of the UK is taking into consideration. The following study will help input the light on several objectives such as the implementation of health and safety legislation in a care homes, ways to determine the impact of health and safety requirements on customers and healthcare practitioners and monitoring and reviewing health and safety policies of the cited firm.
Task 1 A
The first given section of Health and Safety Regulations 1991 states that it is a responsibility of an employer to communicate his employees regarding the arrangements and facilities within first aid. In the support of this statement, some procedures of communicating health and safety information to care workers will be developed by Carehome which is as follows:
Care planning: A proper care plan will prepare by Carehome to complete the needs of the health and safety requirements of health care workers. Different safety and security policies will be prepared by management for the well-being of staff (Johnstone, Bluff and Clayton, 2012).
Dilemmas: At this stage, Carehome will determine those factors which are responsible for rising of dilemmas between employer of care home and its care workers. Along with this, the negative impact of these elements of health and safety information communication process will also determine.
Task 1B
In the Care home organization, there are some health and safety priorities that are appropriate for a particular health and social care work setting. In this context, specific health and safety areas that require serious attention to safeguard the health and well-being of service users are as follows:
Manual handling: The care workers of Carehome have provided assistance to patients in their daily works such as bathing, dressing, walking, eating, etc. During these kinds of activities, the staffs manually handle care users. In this situation, the chances of an accident with care users may be increased that can harm them either in physical or mental terms.
Task 2
From the given case study, it has found that the Care home has prepared a plan for admission of new residents. For this, the top management has given responsibilities to one of the personnel to conduct an appropriate risk assessment process that can able to deliver a crystal clear picture of risks presented during the care setting.
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