UNDERSTANDING HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SOCIAL CARE SETTING You have been asked to contribute to an induction day for new staff. You are to prepare a presentation about Health and Safety. It must include the following: Ai A list of the key legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting. Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended 2002). Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 COSHH Reporting of injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
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Explain how health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed. Define the following: ❖ Health and Safety- According to World Health Organisation health was defined as ‘a state of complete psychic‚ mental and social well-being [which] does not merely consist of an absence of disease or infirmity’. The scope of health and safety includes protection of the worker’s well-being‚ social and psychological as well as physical. Social well-being may be affected by the organisation
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and process that affect the overall distribution of disease and health. Health care and public health systems are the social determinants of health and they are mostly responsible for health inequities. Health inequities link closely with social determinants of health. Public Health recognizes that individual-level interventions must occur along with approaches that address community and societal levels of social determinants of health. As part of the President’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
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Development through the Life Stages Within this unit‚ I will be showing great knowledge of Human Growth and Development through the life stages. I will also be considering careers in Health and Social Care sectors as it assists with understanding the needs of individuals whom are at those different stages of life. This unit will be focusing on life events and the debate surrounding nature/nurture. Explain the potential effects of five different life factors on the development of an individual-
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premises (where you look after children in your home) and you usually provide meals and drinks for the children in your care. It will help you comply with the law. Do you usually: • provide meals‚ snacks or drinks (apart from mains tap water) for children or babies? Yes No and /or • reheat food provided by a parent /carer‚ or cut it up? Yes No If you said yes to one or both of these questions‚ then this pack is for you. The law changed in 2006 and you must now comply with food safety and hygiene
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Reflective practice is something we all carry out every single day‚ probably without even realising it. We use reflection in many different situations and under many different circumstances‚ as a way of improving our own skills and abilities for different things‚ as individuals. Cowan proposed that learners are reflecting in an educational way‚ “When they analyse or evaluate one or more personal experiences‚ and attempt to generalise from that thinking” (1999: 18). Reflective practice allows us to
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working in health and social care as they help them to: develop positive relationships with people using services and their families and friends‚ so they can understand and meet their needs develop positive relationships with work colleagues and other professionals share information with people using the services‚ by providing and receiving information report on the work they do with people. Oral/verbal method of communication Effective communication is essential in all care settings as part
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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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1.2. EXPLAIN HOW HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES PROTECT THOSE IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974‚ the employer‚ the employee‚ and where appropriate the service users I support have a responsibility to ensure safety is maintained in the workplace. There are two accident books in the organisation: one for service users and the other for members of staff. It is important to record each accident that happen to me or that I witness. The books are reviewed
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Promote Communication in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings – 051 Outcome 1 Identify the different reasons people communicate – Explain 5 different ways of communicating in your setting using 3 written methods of communication and 2 verbal methods. Communication is part of everyday life between people and can be used in many different ways. People communicate to build relationships with one another‚ but also to maintain those relationships formed. When a relationship
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