206 Task B Handout It is a legal requirement to follow agreed ways of working. Policies and procedures or "agreed ways of working" set out how we your employer require you to work. They incorporate various pieces of legislation as well as best practice. They are there to benefit and protect you, the individuals you support and us your employer. They enable you to provide a good quality service working within the legal framework and most importantly aim to keep you and the individuals you support, safe from danger or harm.
Strategic Pre-Incident Changes: Prevention initiatives are a vital part of business contingency plan and play a key role in eliminating or mitigating potential hazards before an incident occurs. First, SterlingCrest will form a risk management department that will be responsible for conducting risk assessments for each corporate department and for the retail stores. The Risk Management department will be responsible for coordinating the efforts of the risk assessments and for the business contingency planning. Each department and store will be responsible for maintaining the business contingency plans within the guidelines and timelines provided by the Risk Management department. To aid in the risk assessment process, SterlingCrest will utilize a variety of tools to assess several types of risk with a department and prevent losses from occurring.
How do you ensure integrity (validity) of information? I would utilise a variety of sources to correlate, compare and match information in order to determine consistency & validity. Assessment Activity 2: OHS codes and regulations are intended to support the basic tenets or intentions of OHS legislation. What are these tenets? * Secure the workplace health, safety & welfare of employees * Protect persons (including the general public) at or near workplaces from risks to health & safety arising out of work activities * Ensure that expert occupational health & safety advice is available to employers, employees & contractors * Promote work environments that are adapted to the health & safety needs of employees * Provide workplaces that are free from unnecessary stress & that are secure * Foster cooperation & consultation between employers & employees on matters related to employee health, safety & welfare.
The law requires you to follow the agreed ways of working. Your companies policies and procedures or agreed ways of working tell you how you are required to work. They incorporate various pieces of legislation as well as best practice. These are in place to benefit and protect you, the individuals you support and your employer. They also enable you to provide good quality service working within the law and most importantly aim to keep you and the individuals you support, safe from danger or harm.
Environmental Protection Agency and other regulatory agencies oversee the proper way for the company to operate. Riordan must protect other people from being in harms way by the production of products. Key people must be
Internal controls will also help to ensure that Apollo Shoes avoids being a target for dishonest and fraudulent behavior by its employees, customers and suppliers. The internal control framework will provide our auditors with a reference point which they will measure the company’s performance in the applicable areas. Apollo Shoes Inc. should enforce certain control measures as many of them are integrated into the auditing process and will help ensure the organization is protecting itself from fraudulent behavior. The following are examples of internal control procedures for auditing
Our foundation will also show how serious leadership is about ethical issues. It is important that the employees be monitored in order to check the quality of one’s work. The quality of an employer’s work also reflects the institutions reputation. Since trust within the workplace is of high priority and a key to success, it is appropriate that employees understand and expect monitoring to occur periodically. The employees will know what types of monitoring are taken place, the reasons for it, how it will be obtained, and who will disclose the information.
CU311 The principles of infection prevention and control 1.1 Explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection. It is our responsibility as employees to take precautionary measures to prevent and control the spread of infection in the workplace this involves working safely to protect myself, other staff, visitors and individuals from infections. Some of the legislation and regulations that relate to the control and prevention of infection include the Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH and RIDDOR. It is important as employees that we are aware of these so that we can work safely. 1.2 Explain employers’ responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of Infection.
The storing of such data calls for necessary security that would protect the employees’ privacy on their information from any litigation or theft. For Huffman Trucking to ensure the protection of employees’ information, it must address the risks related to the safeguarding of confidential information. That is, the company will ensure that no harm would come to the business. However, irresponsive of the procedure of handling the crucial information, the company must implement security measures to effectively safeguard the data, and the assets of the business, as well, from inherent threats such as litigation and
Ethical standards are the code of conduct required by the organization for workers to follow. The relationship between organizational culture and ethics is that the organizational culture guides workers when faced with ethical problems. If the organization culture counters what they are required to do ethically, workers may put the organization in jeopardy by not act ethically. When a worker is faced with a decision that others within the organization think as appropriate, though it is unethical, the worker may follow what is acceptable as per the culture. It is the relationship between organizational culture and ethics that can get businesses into significant trouble in the long term.