CU301P/CT301 Understand Health and Safety in Social Care Settings Outcome 1 Understand the different responsibilities relating to health and safety in social care settings 1.1 List legislation relating to general health and safety in a social care setting Health and Safety at Work Act The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (known as COSHH) The Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985 (known as RIDDOR) Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (PPE)
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have to put in the work to earn it. One might thing that they holding a position of power that he or she deserve respect‚ but that is not the case one may show the proper courtesy to the that they may hold but the respect for individual in the position will have to earn the respect of his subordinates. The concept of stewardship can be trace back to it religious ties when in the book of Genesis‚ God appointed humanity as the steward of creation (The concept of stewardship in health policy‚ 2000). At
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Task 1: OHS Laws and Institutional Frameworks The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act sets out the laws about health and safety requirements affecting workplaces‚ work activities and the use of plant and substances. Besides that‚ the OHS Act is an essential framework in the workplace to cultivate good safety habits in all individuals so as to stimulate a strong safety culture in the workplace. The Act establishes a framework for people by preventing or minimising their exposure to risk. One
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incident which is a ‘whistle blower who has reported that one of the members has been abusing the residents with dementia when the flooding was discovered’. The first priority when working with this incidents and emergencies is to confirming the safety of people and review the policies and policies and procedures that follow the serious incident. The response to this situation is to investigate the incident e.g. dealing with the suspected abuse. To stop this from happening is to have awareness of
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How to manage work health and safety risks Code of Practice 2011 Workplace health and safety Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General This Queensland code of practice was made by the Minister for Education and Industrial Relations on 27 November 2011 and published in the Queensland Government Gazette on 2 December 2011. This code commences on 1 January 2012. This code is based on a national model code of practice developed by Safe Work Australia and approved by the Workplace Relations
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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH OF CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA D.W.G.A.P.K. Sirirathna Advanced Certificate in Human Resource Management National Institute of Business Management March 2013 Acknowledgements First and foremost‚ I would like to thank my supervisor of this project‚ Ms. U K S M Uduwella for the valuable guidance and advice. She inspired me greatly to work in this project. I also would like to thank the management of Tudawe
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discuss the structure of organized public health in the United States. Public health activities are performed at many levels from local to national to global. The organizations and agencies devoted to public health at these different levels share many of the same functions including dis- ease surveillance‚ policy development‚ and provision of access to health care. Local health departments are the point of contact with the individual residents‚ and care and data collection occur primarily at that
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Vincent Mazzaro One of the most controversial subjects in the news today is health care. The problem is not that the doctors can’t cure all of their patients‚ but it’s about how costly it is to cure all of these patients. The cost of helping these patients is paid for through Obama’s new national health care‚ which people’s taxes pay for. However‚ these taxes are sometimes not afforded by a certain majority of people. This makes matters even worse because all the procedures performed on these
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until it dies) can be fertilised From ejaculation sperm reaches & enters egg. Nuclei fuse together (½ genes mum‚ ½ genes dad) Fertilised egg travels to swelled/thickened lining of uterus Neonate: newborn baby – helpless‚ not control movement or care for self Cephalo-Caudal development: from ‘head-to-tail’‚ organs‚ limbs‚ bones Bones and limbs develop quickest during infancy (after organs) Epiphyses: plates of cartilage between bone ends + shafts still in ossification Ossification:
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The Role of Communication and Interpersonal Interaction in Health and Social Care Effective communication is the sending of information through verbal or non-verbal means that has not broken down at any of the key points of communication. The key points of communication are as follows: 1. Information is sent 2. Information is received through one or more of the five senses 3. Information is interpreted and understood 4. Information is returned 5. Information is received 6. Information is interpreted
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