children or young people with whom you work. The health and safety requirements of all young people and adults must be taken into consideration before starting any learning activity and it must be ensured that the learning environment is free from any hazard that could affect a person’s health and safety. The duty of care of a setting to children‚ young people‚ parents and carers is a legal obligation that should always have the child’s safety and welfare uppermost in mind when planning. The desired
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Occupational Health and Safety Act | | | | | | Act changes health‚ safety responsibility Donato‚ Katherine. Northern Ontario Business18. 11 (Oct 01‚ 1998): 18. Employers will have to put their best efforts into getting injured workers back to work and off compensation as soon as possible because of a new law on the books. Bill 99‚ the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act is "putting responsibility into the hands of those who can effect change‚" namely the workplace parties
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OHS101S/101/0/2012 Tutorial letter 101/0/2012 Occupational Health and Safety Law (OHS101S) Year module Department of Mercantile Law This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Bar code CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction and welcome .............................................................................................. 3 Purpose and outcomes of the module ........................................................................... 4 Lecturer and
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Management of Health and Safety Element 2 Setting Health & Safety Policy 1. (a) Outline the general content of the THREE sections of a health and safety policy. (6) (b) Explain why the health and safety policy should be signed by the most senior person in an organization‚ such as a Managing Director or Chief Executive· Officer. (2) Answer (a) The three sections of a policy are the ’statement of intent’‚ which both demonstrates management’s commitment to health and safety and sets goals
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1.1 Analyse the difference between coaching and mentoring Coaching and mentoring use the same skills and approach but coaching is short term task-based and mentoring is a longer-term relationship. What is coaching? Coaching: helping another person to improve awareness‚ to set and achieve goals in order to improve a particular behavioural performance. It consists of one-to-one developmental discussions. It provides people with feedback on both their strengths and weaknesses. It is aimed
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2 of 4: Legislation‚ policies and procedures for health‚ safety and security P4 Outline how legislation‚ policies and procedures relating to health‚ safety and security influence health and social care settings Data Protection Act 1998 The act is protected and covers the individual’s personal data about their living so that the persons are protected from exploitation. (Beryl Stretch‚ 2010) explains this act is important to protect people’s personal belongings and which can cover broadsheet
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investigate the health and safety issues and examine the role of risk assessment and other important policies that should exist in the workplace. “It is estimated that 1.6 million accidents occur each year in the workplace with a cost to the industry of around £700m” (Ref.1). This is why it is hugely necessary to take the rights steps in trying to prevent people from being injured at work. This process is called Health and Safety. Every business has its legal responsibility to work in within Health and Safety
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Understand how to handle information in social care settings It is essential that in a social care environment information is collected‚ used and stored correctly. Current legislation requires everyone working in social care to maintain certain records and keep them secure. Most of the information is sensitive and therefore not available to the general public. Information that is sensitive is called Confidential. Examples of confidential records are :- * Care & support Plans * Risk Assessments
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Accountability This essay is about accountability in health and social care setting. Accountability requires the individual practitioner to take responsibility for their actions and the outcomes. The essay looks at the different areas of accountability such as‚ principles of care‚ delegation; four ethical principles. In this essay record keeping will be discussed. (RCN ‚2008) defines accountability as taking responsibility for the actions done by a health care worker or omissions in their daily work and
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CU2546 - The role of a Health and social care worker Performance Criteria 1.1 Difference between working and personal relationship The difference between a working relationship and a personal relationship is that:- A working relationship has boundaries‚ professional codes of conduct‚ employer policies and procedures‚ you should be friendly but have a different approach you should treat the customer with equality and you would know your role and responsibilities and you should not share personal
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