Maintaining a high level of personal health and hygiene will also help in the prevention of infection. Health & social practitioners should be in attendance at any training days on offer relating to infection prevention and control. If any cases of possible infection risks are identified they should be reports immediately to your employer. 1.2. It is your employer’s responsibility to ensure that all laws and legal regulations concerning infection prevention and control are followed by employees.
Any safe system of work – and the document that explains it – should be revised regularly. Safety instructions Safety notices and instructions are safe procedures, as are site instructions, but you must make sure that they are clear and easy to understand, for all workers. Method statements Methods statements offer another way of recording a safe system of work. A method statement details how a particular piece of works will be carried out and what will be used to do this. It would include, for example, the method of construction, how many people would be doing the work and what plant, materials and equipment are to be used.
This covers safeguarding, suitable people, suitable premises/equipment, organisation and documentation. Ofsted will come to the setting to check that the setting are following this framework correctly. There is also health and safety legislation in place that sets out legal requirements to keep all adults and children safe. These are: Health and safety at work act 1974 All employment settings have responsibility as laid down in the health and safety at work act 1974 for Great Britain. This act places overall responsibility for health and safety with the employer but also duties on employees, so everyone in a setting has some responsibility for the health and safety of anyone who is there.
You can promote health and safety within the social care setting by giving regular training on it, which will constantly refresh it in everyone's mind. Having leaflets on the subject around the place can also help as they are alway there to be picked up and read. Regular staff meeting can provide extremely useful aswell and people can address their concerns and work out ways to deal with it. Also making sure risk assessments are carried out everyday, will encourage people to adapt it into their everyday routine. Outcome 8 understanding how to promote environmental safety procedures in the social care setting 8.1 Explain procedures to be followed in the social care setting to
UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYMENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS Unit 3: 1 Employers have a duty of care to make the workplace safe and there are statutory responsibities and rights that employers have to comply within the law. There are employment law, health and safety law, anti discrimination law, the data protection act and for our line of work there are CRB checks. Employment law: covers employers hours, working conditions, break/ meal times, holiday pay or entitlement, sickness absence and sick pay. Health and safety law: all workers have a right to work in a place where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. It is to stop you getting hurt at work or ill through work.
MU24 contribute to children and young people’s health and safety Outcome 1- Know the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting 1. Outline the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting There is an act put under place by the law which is the health and safety act 1974. This is put into place to ensure that your workplace is a safe place to work. Every work setting should have health and safety policies. These should be kept safe and be placed were everyone can see them.
We use our own safety equipment in protecting our facility and our employees, so people who work there are testing products that may save their own life one day. Honeywell believes in the safety of all employees and customers around the
Promote Positive Behaviour – Credits: 6 1.1 Explain how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relating to positive behaviour support are applied to own working practice All aspects of my role as a support worker require me to be up to date on all company and government legislations, mandatory training and understand the codes of practices as well as the policies and procedures. With this it gives me guidance and the ability to work to my best potential giving the service user the best quality of life possible. These practices and polices make sure that all staff are working with a consistent approach this also helps reinforce confidence when dealing with challenging behaviour and promoting good behaviour. They also help staff to develop communications skills relevant to the service user. Included in the legislations, frameworks, codes of practices and policies are guidelines which help the staff meet the requirements of the health and safety act ensuring that we get positive reviews from CQC assessment.
3 What are the responsibilities of the employer in WHS? The employee? EMPLOYER provide a safe and healthy workplace identify any hazards reduce risk support the health and safety committee provide training in workplace safety define and set guidelines of safe practise for each task to be undertaken in the workplace Provide equipment to protect workers as needed (personal protective equipment – PPE). EMPLOYEE work safely take care to consider the safety of others when working report any health and safety concerns to a supervisor or to the health and safety committee assist and support employers to follow health and safety provisions Wear PPE whenever needed. (Safe Work Australia, 2011, np) 4 Define the following terms – a.
“Constitutions are no more than an ambiguous set of promises and therefore ineffective as guiding rules” (Week 9) – MAJOR ESSAY DISAGREE PL1001: The Political World: An Introduction to Political Science * This assignment is my original work and no part has been copied from any other person’s work or from any other source except where acknowledgement has been made, * I hold a copy of this assignment and can produce a copy if requested, * This assignment has not been written for me by any other person, * This work has not been submitted for any other course/subject, * This work may be photocopied and/or communicated for the purpose of identifying plagiarism. Every country requires a set of laws, rules