25/2/12 Health and safety at work act 1974 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering work-related health and safety in the United Kingdom. It sets out a lot of your employers’ responsibilities for your health and safety at work. The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for enforcing health and safety at work. Your employer has a ’duty of care’ to ensure‚ as far as possible‚ your health‚ safety and welfare while you’re at work. They should start
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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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Apprenticeship Assessment Workbook Level 2 Health & Social Care 1. HEALTH AND SAFETY 2 This sequence of activities will allow you to demonstrate your knowledge of health and safety policies and procedures in your workplace. As a health and social care worker‚ it is important that you are competent in assessing risks and hazards and implementing good practice on health and safety. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING These activities assess your knowledge of health and safety. There are different items
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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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Society Health: An Annotated Bibliography Mass society theory is an idea that media has strong influence towards people‚ it plays a role of shaping people’s mind and perception of the social world and it is also to manipulate people’s action with delicate‚ subtle and effective ways (Baran and Davis 2006‚ p.43). With this‚ Mass Society Health states that various forms of media may infer health-related issues on people especially children. These issues may constitute the leading cause of health hazards
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DIPLOMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Level 3 Promote and Implement Health and Safety in Health and Social Care 4222/306 HSC 037 Second submission. LEARNER NAME Gill Ball LEARNER WORK-BASE Timberdine City & Guilds REG. NUMBER PRC8727 ASSESSOR’S NAME Sue Francis Assessment Centre Number: 024995 Worcestershire County Council Learning‚ Development and Well-being Vocational Assessment Centre County Hall Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NP Guidance for Learners on completing their workbooks If you
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Support children and young people’s health and safety 2.4 – Explain how health and safety risk assessments are monitored and reviewed; Health and safety and risk assessments are a major part of the primary school. A major risk assessment is carried out at the start of each new school year to make sure all risks are being covered and new ones identified so they can be closely monitored through out the whole school year. The health and safety policy is also reviewed at the start of the school
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Unit 009 Contribute to Children and Young People’s Health and Safety Level: 2 Credit value: 3 NDAQ number: J/601/3491 Unit aim This unit provides learners with the knowledge and skills to contribute to supporting children and young people’s health and safety. Learning outcomes There are seven learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will be able to: 1. Know the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting 2. Be able to recognise risks and hazards in the work setting and
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Technical 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
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What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974? The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 sets out the general day to day activities within the Workplace‚ that employers or employees may face when they are working. It outlines the possible hazards and risks within the workplace‚ and ways to minimise that risk or prevent the incident from recurring. This health and safety law has been reviewed in 1994 and again in 1999 and says that good management and common sense is what is needed to be able to
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