Legislations health and social care
Legislations
Health and safety:
It’s important for everyone to be in a safe environment so they can do daily tasks without feeling scared and uncomfortable of something will happen to them for certain so that’s why in every health care setting the health and safety at work act 1974 has been introduced so they can safe guard vulnerable patients in their care.
Providers in health care settings need to provide some of the following services to ensure that the service users and the employees themselves are safe when working for example:
They need to provide and maintain safety when using equipment’s
Provide a safe place of employment
Ensure equipment is used safely, stored and delivered from one place to another.
Provide a safe place to feel safe and welcomed at all times
Look after the health and safety of others.
Food standard regulation:
The food standard regulation is one of the most important legislation in a health care setting because most hospitals, care homes, schools etc all serve food and it needs to be in a good standard for the service users to eat it without becoming violently ill for example poor hygiene can result to abnormality of different foods compared to the others which can make the person ill. For the service uses to eat without becoming ill this legislations helps guide the workers to do some of the following The controls include:
Premises are clean and in a good state of repair
Good drainage, lighting and ventilation
Sufficient waste disposal facilities
Toilet facilities for staff
Equipment is in good condition and kept clean
Also another guideline they should follow would be the temperature of the food needs to be monitored in order for the food to be served without any complications and here is the temperature guideline for the foods being stored in specific places:
It is an offence to allow food to be kept at temperatures that would cause a risk to health, so you must make sure foods that need temperature control are kept at the
Health and safety:
It’s important for everyone to be in a safe environment so they can do daily tasks without feeling scared and uncomfortable of something will happen to them for certain so that’s why in every health care setting the health and safety at work act 1974 has been introduced so they can safe guard vulnerable patients in their care.
Providers in health care settings need to provide some of the following services to ensure that the service users and the employees themselves are safe when working for example:
They need to provide and maintain safety when using equipment’s
Provide a safe place of employment
Ensure equipment is used safely, stored and delivered from one place to another.
Provide a safe place to feel safe and welcomed at all times
Look after the health and safety of others.
Food standard regulation:
The food standard regulation is one of the most important legislation in a health care setting because most hospitals, care homes, schools etc all serve food and it needs to be in a good standard for the service users to eat it without becoming violently ill for example poor hygiene can result to abnormality of different foods compared to the others which can make the person ill. For the service uses to eat without becoming ill this legislations helps guide the workers to do some of the following The controls include:
Premises are clean and in a good state of repair
Good drainage, lighting and ventilation
Sufficient waste disposal facilities
Toilet facilities for staff
Equipment is in good condition and kept clean
Also another guideline they should follow would be the temperature of the food needs to be monitored in order for the food to be served without any complications and here is the temperature guideline for the foods being stored in specific places:
It is an offence to allow food to be kept at temperatures that would cause a risk to health, so you must make sure foods that need temperature control are kept at the