Btec Business Level 3 Unit 2 P2 '

Task 2 Legislation (P2) (M1)
The Government produced the legislation ‘Manual Handling regulations 1992’; they produced this legislation to help protect staff and service user from harming themselves. In health and social care settings managers produce a policy to help prevent accidents and harm coming to their staff and the service users who come into the hospital. To help control the legislation certain lifting techniques of patients were banned due to future problems with back problems of staff and the harm of patients/ service users when being lifted or moved about.
The Government produced the legislation ‘Data Protection Act 1998’; they produced this legislation to help protect service users, businesses, people who do not know us from people gaining information about ourselves or other people without permission. This legislation was
The likelihood of an injury from this hazard is high as people could trip over it, maybe rushing to an emergency and the chair is blocking the way and causing a risk to staff and patients. The severity of injury is that someone could break/fracture a bone depending on how hard the fall is or the age/health of the patient. However we understand that some people need to be transported by wheelchairs as they cannot walk from a leg injury or they may just not be able to walk very far from where they were coming from. A porter may have left the wheelchair just in case an emergency occurred and we needed to transport someone quickly to a place who couldn’t walk/ walk far. The wheelchair could also be a hazard to children who decide to play on them as the brakes may not be on which would cause the wheelchair to move whilst a child was on it. This could mean that a child would end up falling and the wheelchair falling over causing another risk from the wheelchair being left