Explain how health and safety is monitored and maintained and how people in the work setting are made aware of risks and hazards and encouraged to work safely. All settings must carry out risk assessments on a daily basis. These are supplemented with daily checks. In all cases these must be signed and dated‚ so that members of staff are made responsible and accountable for the safety of children‚ other staff and visitors to the setting. Health and safety 3.2 Health and safety general standards
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Unit 208: Support children and young people’s health and safety Outcome 1: Know the legislative and policy framework for health and safety. 1.1 Describe how current health and safety legislation‚ policies and procedures are implemented in your setting At the start of the day the children are made to line up in the school playground. When the whistle is blown at 8.55a.m the teachers will come onto the yard to collect their classes. The children are then in turn taken into the building. Some
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The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the major piece of the health and safety legislation in Great Britain. It provides the legal framework to promote‚ stimulate and encourage high standards. The Act‚ when first introduced‚ provided an integrated system dealing with workplace health and safety and the protection of the public from work activities. By placing general duties upon employees‚ employers‚ the self-employed‚ manufacturers‚ designers and importers of work equipment and materials‚ the
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CU2939 Develop Health and Safety and Risk Management Policies‚ Procedures and Practices in Health and Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings. Legislative frameworks for Health and Safety and risk management within our work setting include: The Health and Safety at work Act 1974. This is in place to ensure that all people are kept safe at work or entering a workplace. We have the Health and Safety policy in place to protect all people. The staff are given a copy and this is reviewed
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Health and Safety Understand the different Responsibilities relating to Health and Social care. 1.1) Identify Legislations relating to Health and Safety in social care settings? HSE also known as Health and Safety at work act 1974 It places a duty on all employers to “Ensure”the Health ‚Safety and welfare of the individuals emplyed. The Act also requires: • safe operation and maintenance of the working environment‚ plant and systems • maintenance of safe access and egress to the workplace
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HEALTH AND SAFETY – OHS1 Health and safety is very important. In order to have a safer life we should be careful at every step that we take. Unfortunately it is not enough when only we are careful. Everyone around us should be careful as well for themselves and for the others. In that way everybody can have a better‚ healthier and safer life so nobody worries when they go outside. Health and safety is very important both in general and workplaces. In general‚ it is not possible to talk about a healthy
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Administering Medication reflective account The legislation which governs how medication is administered‚ stored and recorded include the following: The Health and Social Care Act 2008 The Medicines Act 1968 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 COSHH Regulations 1999 Access to Health Records Act 1990 Data Protection Act 1998 Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 Common types of medication which I deal with and support my clients with are: Paracetamol- usually prescribed as 500mg
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Health And safety 4222-306 The health and safety act consists of various principles‚ these are implemented to ensure employees are safe whilst at work‚ this doesn’t just apply those those who are employed by a company it applies to any one who enters the building including professional bodies I.e district nurses‚ And general practitioners the legislation is made up of COSHH‚RIDDOR‚The manual handling operations regulations‚ the health and safety first aid regulations and management of health
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Health and Safety. Introduction The quality of health and safety of the environment is greatly affected by the environment itself‚ never more so than in the health care setting‚ where patients and clients may be more vulnerable than in there own homes. Florence Nightangale suggested that patients in health care settings may be harmed just by being there. Health and Safety commission (1992) places a general duty on employers to ensure the health and safety of employees. Infection Control
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Certificate unit worksheet Unit 208 – Understand health and safety in social care settings The numbers in the bracket after each question relate to the assessment criteria in the standards UNIT 4222-208 1. List legislation relating to general health and safety in a social care setting (1.1.1) 2. Describe the main points of health and safety policies and procedures agreed with your employer (1.1.2) 3. Outline the main health and safety responsibilities of: (1.1.3) a) the social care
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