Health And Social Care Level 3 Unit 3 M1
Unit 3
M1
In this assignment I am going to describe how health and safety legislation, policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals in a health or social care setting.
Firstly, all health and social care settings should have fluent staff training; this is to ensure that all staff is actually aware of the policies, safety legislation and procedures they will have to follow when working in the health and social care setting. The manager should go through all potential procedures that will have to be carried out in any incident. For example, the manager should construct a map of the building and make clear where all exits and emergency exits to the building are, this is in case of a patient escaping the building or in case of a …show more content…
The data protection act ensures that all employee’s keep service user’s information confidential and to handing their personal information appropriately. This personal information can be anything such as; the individuals address, gender, sexuality, beliefs, name, medication/ diagnosis, treatment, illness etc. the data protection act also ensures that the employees show the individual the information which has been processed about them, as they have the right to see this. If an employee do not follow the data protection act, they will be guilty of criminal offence as they will be breeching confidentiality as they would be putting the individual at significant risk of harm. Confidentiality between the service user and the service provider is very important as the service user can trust them to give important information. If the individual doesn’t feel secure when giving this information, they may disclose it, which is essential not to happen for example; a patient feels uncomfortable about telling a doctor about her sexual health, therefore discloses certain information such as signs or symptoms which will determine what illness she
M1
In this assignment I am going to describe how health and safety legislation, policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals in a health or social care setting.
Firstly, all health and social care settings should have fluent staff training; this is to ensure that all staff is actually aware of the policies, safety legislation and procedures they will have to follow when working in the health and social care setting. The manager should go through all potential procedures that will have to be carried out in any incident. For example, the manager should construct a map of the building and make clear where all exits and emergency exits to the building are, this is in case of a patient escaping the building or in case of a …show more content…
The data protection act ensures that all employee’s keep service user’s information confidential and to handing their personal information appropriately. This personal information can be anything such as; the individuals address, gender, sexuality, beliefs, name, medication/ diagnosis, treatment, illness etc. the data protection act also ensures that the employees show the individual the information which has been processed about them, as they have the right to see this. If an employee do not follow the data protection act, they will be guilty of criminal offence as they will be breeching confidentiality as they would be putting the individual at significant risk of harm. Confidentiality between the service user and the service provider is very important as the service user can trust them to give important information. If the individual doesn’t feel secure when giving this information, they may disclose it, which is essential not to happen for example; a patient feels uncomfortable about telling a doctor about her sexual health, therefore discloses certain information such as signs or symptoms which will determine what illness she