Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a health and social care setting. Fire Precautions Act 1971 Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) Health And Safety of Work Act 1974 Manual Handling Operations Regulation 1992 Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health regulation 2002 (COSHH) These are the main principles of health and safety legislation that applies to a health care setting. By following these acts can reduce
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also be helpful‚ if possible‚ to vary the times at which food is provided‚ so that people can choose the tome at which they wish to eat rather than having to fit in with the arrangements of their care setting. Of course‚ this is not easy as there are always considerations about staffing and running any care facility. Knowing the types of food and drink a person likes will help to build a trusting relationship. Some people choose not to eat meat because of their concern for animals. Some people have
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Unit 13 –Dementia Awareness 1) 1.1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’ Dementia is a set of symptoms that affect the way people think and interact with each other. It is not a disease‚ but can often be linked to a disease or damage done to the brain. Short-time memory‚ mind‚ speech and motor skills are affected. Certain forms of dementia cause a change in the personality of the individual. A person suffering from dementia will lose certain skills and knowledge they already had. This
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development | Infancy can count to 20 they know ABC and they watch TV and ask to go out‚ begin to pretend by acting out familiar activities. Responding‚ and making some kind of sound understands by people around him and copy mum and dads words. | Social development | From the birth infant knows people around him by how they treat him and infant making relationship between him and his parent ‚by age six laughing him and laugh his mother when she changing his nappies‚ the baby is discovering he is
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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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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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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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703 on Health and safety in catering and hospitality Task A Regulations and responsibility Health and Safety Regulations aim to improve safety in workplaces‚ making employers and employees equally responsible for ensuring that they protect themselves and others from accident and injury. The regulations refer to such things as clean kitchens‚ safety guards on machinery etc.‚ If an employee is injured at work because of breaches of these rules then compensation can be awarded. Most health and safety
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Health and Safety Always place your baby on his or her back to sleep‚ even for naps. This is the safest sleep position for a healthy baby to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Babies placed on their stomachs to sleep are much more likely to die of SIDS than babies placed on their backs to sleep. Beat the heat and sun Heat-related illness occurs when the body’s temperature control system is overloaded. Those at greatest risk for heat-related illness include infants and children
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Kadian Igbinosun Unit 4 P1-Describe physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development for each of the life stages of an individual In this assignment I am going to identify also describe the physical‚ intellectual and social development for each of the life stages of an individual. Conception A human life starts with conception. Women that are fertile usually produces one egg each month‚round about two weeks after a women has had her period. The egg cell usually
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