Unit 3 P4 Health And Social Care
Legislation
At my work experience placement, the supervisor asked me to check policies and procedures relating to health, safety and security to see how they link legislation and guidelines.
The main points of the following pieces of legislation and how there have a positive effect on the service delivery within your work experience setting.
COSHH stands for control of substances hazardous to health regulation. COSHH is for using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk so the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health. They have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed, by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Disposal of bodily waste: Clinical waste has to be separated into different containers for disposal which indicates how hazardous or infectious it might be. A colour coding system has been developed to indicate to both the transporters and disposal contractors …show more content…
Cleaning is important as its keeps the food safe and prevent bacteria from spreading. Staff should always make sure that they wash the worktop before the preparation of food begins and after preparing the food. The manger should always make sure that they’ve checked the worktop places carefully, and give the staff information on how to work the general hygiene regulation. Service users should always make sure that they wash their hands before putting food in their mouths, and this should be done with a soap and warm water, and then dry them thoroughly. Staff should always make sure that cuts and wounds should be covered with a waterproof dressing, which the plasters are often blue in colour so that they can be easily seen in
At my work experience placement, the supervisor asked me to check policies and procedures relating to health, safety and security to see how they link legislation and guidelines.
The main points of the following pieces of legislation and how there have a positive effect on the service delivery within your work experience setting.
COSHH stands for control of substances hazardous to health regulation. COSHH is for using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk so the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health. They have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed, by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Disposal of bodily waste: Clinical waste has to be separated into different containers for disposal which indicates how hazardous or infectious it might be. A colour coding system has been developed to indicate to both the transporters and disposal contractors …show more content…
Cleaning is important as its keeps the food safe and prevent bacteria from spreading. Staff should always make sure that they wash the worktop before the preparation of food begins and after preparing the food. The manger should always make sure that they’ve checked the worktop places carefully, and give the staff information on how to work the general hygiene regulation. Service users should always make sure that they wash their hands before putting food in their mouths, and this should be done with a soap and warm water, and then dry them thoroughly. Staff should always make sure that cuts and wounds should be covered with a waterproof dressing, which the plasters are often blue in colour so that they can be easily seen in