These two types of agencies consist of the Police Service, the Fire Service, the Ambulance and Paramedic Service, the Red Cross, St John’s Ambulance, Mountain Rescue, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and Coast Guard. Statutory public services Examples of the statutory public services are the Fire Service, the Police and the Ambulance Service. Each of these have many roles and responsibilities, some different when compared against each other. The Fire Service prevent fires; keep fires under control; quarantine hazardous areas, protect the lives of civilians; protect the environment and preserve evidence at the scene of arson. Today, the Fire Service The Ambulance Service saves lives; provides medical treatment and stabilisation at the scene and provides support to those involved with the casualty/patient.
They have to evacuate as many people as they can from damaged building that are about to collapse or buildings that are on fire. They also have to perform safety checks on the area, so they and others from the other services are not harmed while being involved in the operation, then they are able to put out the fires. Depending on the incident, the Fire Service doesn’t just put out fires. In some cases, when buildings have collapsed on people in their cars, the Fire Service have used other equipment; such as ‘The Jaws of Life’, in order to cut people free from their cars. Lastly, the Fire Service also investigate the cause of the incident, whether it is to find out the cause of the fire or buildings collapsing, the Police would work alongside with them, because it is the Fire Service’s
Share What You Know * Share important information with the authorities on family members who are elderly or have any disabilities. This is extremely important for households that have someone bedridden, or in a wheelchair, that may need extra help evacuating their home. Share plans with friends and family members outside the home so they know that their family is safe in an emergency. The living and entertainment rooms are both rooms that have a lot of electrical wiring it is very important that you get all the loose wires off the ground to prevent any electrocution form occurring, also remember to check window sills for any
Every factory had orders to have one of these two systems installed in them to help prevent or hold back the outbreak of a fire to prevent damage to the property or lose of the workers. As Bruere explains, an order has gone out to install automatic sprinklers in factories, but the manufacturers had organized to fight it because it meant so great an expenditure (105). If the factory had one of these two systems installed, it could have helped prevent such a loss of lives during the fire’s
Most of the legal regulations relating to infection Prevention and control come under the Health and Safety at Work Act; this act is about ensuring a safe work place for employers, Employees and members of the public by minimising accidents at work. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations introduced the need for monitoring health and safety and risk assessment; including infection prevention and Control. The Food Safety Act was brought in to ensure safe practices for food to avoid contamination and spreading of infection and includes handling, storing and disposal of food. Legal regulations that come under HASAWA include The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), this is relevant as it is about the prevention and control of pathogens and managing the safe storage and use of hazardous substances. Reporting of Injury, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) is relevant as it requires that any infection or disease that is work Related be recorded and reported.
It is important that you understand how to prevent a fire and what to do in the event of a fire. You may be required to be invoived in food preparation in your role as a carer. You will need to have an understanding of the principles of safe food handling. Infection control is about controlling the spread of communicable diseases between service users, staff, and visitor. the service users we care for are often particulary vulnerable to infection, and as such we need to be extra careful, clothes can pick up infection and pass it from one service user to another.
This should help ensure all community members are able utilize the services of a nonbiased party, and ultimately maintain healthy households. Symptoms of over exposure to natural gas include but are not limited to: nosebleeds, diarrhea, loss of libido, flatulence, bloating, dizziness, memory loss, low grade fever, loss of menstrual cycles, night sweats, depression, pneumonia, headaches, hair loss, chest pain, and partial-seizures (Wang Qijing, 2005). Individuals experiencing these symptoms or any other health problems should immediately seek medical attention. A meeting at the Town Hall will be held on April 3, 2011 at six o’clock; all community members are encouraged to attend and voice your opinions, experiences, and the hardships you may have experienced. Invitations to the meeting have been sent to any community members with a background in law or medicine.
In the Franklin county disaster, the nurse had to reach out to several supporting agencies to meet the needs of residents during the door to door interviews. Public works was contacted to get an estimated time frame that utilities such as water and electricity would be back up and running. Environmental health specialist were contacted to advise a resident about cleaning up household hazardous waste due to damage in the shed causing chemicals to mix and cleaning up after a flood (Disaster in Franklin, 2006). Social services were contacted to help a resident deal with her family responsibilities that was likely a problem prior to the storm but may feel worse due to the added stress of the storm recovery process. One house visit required the services of a translator for the nurse to complete the follow up assessment.
Scenario 1:- Fire within a Nursing Home Within my scenario, I have stated that the residents in the nursing home would be required to go to the fire assembly point. By residents going to the fire assembly point it would prevent the residents becoming poorly because of smoke inhalation. By people doing this and reporting that there is a fire and fire brigades being on the scene, there would be more chance of people being saved, by this it would reduce the chances of people dieing also by people being at the assembly point, other professionals such as fire brigades and health care professionals would be able to have a clearer understanding on who is safely been evacuated and who and how many other people are still left in the effected building. By people going to the fire assembly point and ensure that people are not too close to the building as it may collapse, it would also make it easier for people to have a clear understanding on where everyone is and it would reduce the chance
In this report I will be discussing 5 statutory and 5 non-statutory public services which exist to offer support to citizens who might be involved in issues raised. The statutory services that exist to offer support are the fire and rescue service which help the public for example fires, if there are any fires then the fire and rescue service will be involved to put it out and rescue any persons who could be trapped, they also rescue people who could be in danger for example a car crash the fire and rescue service would be called out to help get any one out of the car for example taking the roof or the door. Another statutory service is the NHS which help families care for their children as health care is paid in the taxes which give children up to the age of 18 free health service. Social services is another statutory service which help the public because they are there for children who are not being looked after properly or their