CT301 Understand Health and Safety in Social Care Settings        3.3 Reasons may include: To comply with health and safety legislation‚ To preserve life‚ To minimise the consequences of injury and illness‚ To treat injuries and illnesses effectively. 4.1 Routes of infection may include: Blood circulation‚ Digestive‚ Respiratory‚ Body fluids. 4.2 Own health or hygiene might pose a risk by e.g.: Causing a serious infection‚ Causing illness‚ Causing
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Unit 1 Explain how a work setting can encourage children and young people’s positive behaviour 4.1 Promote children and young people’s positive behaviour. Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour Policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour We take great pride in our childcare setting in promoting positive behaviour. This is reflected in many of our policies which are in place
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being the safety coordinator he is responsible for making the work place a safe place. He was not concerned with the risks of the accumulated wood dust in the work place. His ethical and moral obligation for the employees was not of any value to him. He did not think it was necessary to investigate the situation any further. He had more of a passive approach with dealing with the situation. The area manager seemed more of the greater good for the company and not for the employee’s safety. He would
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I have chosen these responses safety‚ security‚ seeking help‚ serious injuries and alerting for help and have them in this order because they are in order of top priority to help the casualty who has been hit by a car outside the residential care home. I chose to have safety as top priority response as it is really important that the casualty and your safety is the number one priority in dealing with the accident if it is on a dangerous and busy road for example. I then chose to have security as
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Health Hazards in Common Professions Introduction:- The world is a busy place. There are millions of people going to work every day. As a result‚ there has been a steady rise in the number of jobs‚ because new people join the global workforce each year. To ensure maximum productivity from the workforce‚ the health and safety of the working individuals is very important. To ensure complete safety‚ it is essential that we are acknowledged about the health hazards present in the certain field/profession
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Unit 71‚ Outcome 1 Explain how current and relevant legislation and policy affects work with children and young people. Current legislation is the result of The children Act 1989 which was brought in to ensure that all people who work with children worked together and was clear about their responsibility’s and knew how to act if allegations of child abuse were made.Following the death of Victoria Climbie in the year 2000 an independent inquiry highlighted many problems with how reports of neglect
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outlines how legislations‚ policies and procedures relating to health safety and security influence health and social care settings. M1- describes how health and safety legislations‚ policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals in a health and social care setting. In this essay I am going to outline how legislation‚ policies and procedures relating to health‚ safety and security influence health and social care settings. I am also going to describe how health and safety legislation
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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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This means to apply laws in a health and social care setting. A legalisation in the work place informs employees what is and what is not legal practice. A law is the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which may enforce penalties. Regulations are the rules of work providers amongst the organisation in which you work for‚ it is important that we outline the difference and inform employee’s what is permissible and what is not
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Understand health and safety in social care settings Task A Presentation 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. Task A A1. • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 • Medicines Act 1968 • Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 • Hazardous Wastes Regulations 2005 • Personal Protective Equipment at Work regulations
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