Explain possible priroties and responses when dealing with chemical wastes
Fire
There are a lot of incidents and emergencies that can happen in a health and social care setting despite of how cautious an organization is and how many precautions they must take. In health and social care many risk assessments are taken to make sure the place is safe but there are still few things that are unstable or accidents that are not expected to happen. The Staff’s duty is to work out how it happened and how to reduce the risk of it occurring again. Priorities are procedures that must be put into place in case of an emergency or incident that are considered more essential over other plan of actions. An emergency is usually unexpected, dangerous and sometimes life threatening. I will be discussing the two most important priorities and responses that must be taken into place in case of a possible emergency or incident in a hospital.
A fire can cause a sudden panic as it is an unpredictable event and it is also very dangerous. The very first procedure in a case of fire is to stay calm and not panic. The second step is to inform everyone; service users, staff, medical professionals, visitors and any other individual on the establishment by raising the alarm for everyone to hear. It is possible that it may cause panic, everyone should start evacuating. The staffs are not allowed to leave the premises as you are not to priorities their selves better than the service users, and their duty is to take care of the service users so they must help those people less able than them for example, the elderly, people with visual/hearing impairments, restricted mobility, children and disabled people.
There are a lot of incidents and emergencies that can happen in a health and social care setting despite of how cautious an organization is and how many precautions they must take. In health and social care many risk assessments are taken to make sure the place is safe but there are still few things that are unstable or accidents that are not expected to happen. The Staff’s duty is to work out how it happened and how to reduce the risk of it occurring again. Priorities are procedures that must be put into place in case of an emergency or incident that are considered more essential over other plan of actions. An emergency is usually unexpected, dangerous and sometimes life threatening. I will be discussing the two most important priorities and responses that must be taken into place in case of a possible emergency or incident in a hospital.
A fire can cause a sudden panic as it is an unpredictable event and it is also very dangerous. The very first procedure in a case of fire is to stay calm and not panic. The second step is to inform everyone; service users, staff, medical professionals, visitors and any other individual on the establishment by raising the alarm for everyone to hear. It is possible that it may cause panic, everyone should start evacuating. The staffs are not allowed to leave the premises as you are not to priorities their selves better than the service users, and their duty is to take care of the service users so they must help those people less able than them for example, the elderly, people with visual/hearing impairments, restricted mobility, children and disabled people.