Health and safety legislation Two of the most important pieces of health and safety legislation affecting educational establishments across the UK are the Health and Safety at Work‚ etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. These set the standards that must be met to ensure the health and safety of all employees and others who may be affected by any work activity. Other regulations also exist to cover work activities that carry specific risks‚ for example lifting
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Online Assignment Submission Birmingham Business School Student ID Number: 1506893 Programme Of Study: MSc Human Resource Management Module: Managing Equality and Diversity 07 25362 Assignment Title: Managing Equality and Diversity Date and Time of Submission: 21/01/2015 12pm Please ensure that you complete and attach this Submission Form to the front of all work that is submitted online. Before submission‚ please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work
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Patrick’s College London HND Health and Social Care Management Principles of Health and Social Care Practice John Egharevba INTRODUCTION This essay is about the principles of practice in health and social care. It is going to discuss how it is applied when dealing with person-centred care with users of health and social care services‚ and it will also analyse how policies‚ legislation‚ regulation and codes of practice are applied in health and social care settings when providing care
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Health and Safety Legislation 1. Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) 1995 RIDDOR came into force on the 1st of April 1996 and requires you to report some work-related accidents‚ disease and dangerous occurrences to the Health and Safety Executive. Major injuries include: * Fracture / break other than to fingers‚ thumbs or toes * Amputation * Dislocation of the shoulder‚ hip‚ knee or spine * Loss of sight Dangerous occurrences include:
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Our work place policies‚ procedures‚ codes of practice and legislation requirements for:- Diversity is respecting and maintaining the dignity and privacy of clients recognizing issues associated with the identity needs of other service users as well as the clients own interpretation of dignity and respect and the right to express his/her own identity‚ culture and lifestyle. Equality is ensuring people are treat with fairness no what their age‚ race or gender; treating people according to their
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NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Equality and Diversity Unit 4: Living in Diverse Communities Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. 1 The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk 2 Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly 3 When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference 4 Then‚ go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My
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Health Policy Legislation: Nursing Within the American Health Care System December 6‚ 2010 Description of HB 450 Over the last few years‚ states have begun to develop legislation to protect healthcare workers from assault. Ohio is no different. House Bill 450 (HB 450) is a piece of legislation introduced by State Representatives Denise Driehaus (D-Cincinnati) and Linda S. Bolon (D-Columbiana) that is aimed at making the crime of assaulting a registered nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse
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(P1)- Explain the concepts of equality‚ diversity and rights in relation to health and social care. In this essay for P1 I will be explaining the theories of equality‚ diversity and rights within the health and social care sector. I’ll give examples of the different health sectors and a few examples of what people are discriminated against and how the discriminating practise is valued how it affects the workplace. Working in health and social care sector it is important that every individual
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Unit 2: equality diversity and rights in health and social LO2: discriminatory practice in health and social care Objectives: All learners should be able to define basis of discrimination. All learners should be able to explain basis of discrimination Most learners should be able to demonstrate discriminatory practice Some learners should be able to describe effects of discriminatory practice. Basis of discriminatory Culture A person’s culture is important to them and identifies
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Assess the possible effects of discrimination on the physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social health/wellbeing of individuals Discrimination occurs when someone is treated differently because of his socio-economic‚ physical‚ cultural and social background or his beliefs. In a social care environment this can be manifested in the form of labelling stereotyping or abusing an individual. Such practice will have negative effects on the physical‚ intellectual and emotional and social health/ wellbeing
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