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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How to promote a safe work environment Care environments are places where accidents can quite often happen‚ not because staff are careless or fail to check hazards‚ but because of the vulnerability of the people who use the care facilities. As people become frail or develop physical conditions which affect mobility such as arthritis or Parkinson’s‚ they become susceptible to falls and trips because they are unsteady‚ and the slightest change in surface or level can upset their balance
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Occupational Safety and Health in Bangladesh Introduction The occupational health and safety service in Bangladesh is still in the developmental stage. Here the occupational health & safety refers mainly to needs of workers of industries or some manufacturing processes but does not completely cover all occupations of the country. The main laws related to occupational health & safety in this country is the Factory Act 1965 and the Factory Rule of 1979. There are a number of other laws and
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YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH & SAFETY Check your knowledge 1. What does COSHH stand for? COSHH stands for control of substances hazardous to health 2. Name two other regulations that cover health and safety in children’s settings. Reporting of injuries‚ diseases and dangerous occurrences Regulation (RIDDOR) 1995 Food hygiene legislation 2006 – safe storage and preparation of food 3. List six routine daily checks you should make of the indoor and outdoor environments in your setting. indoor outdoor
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Support children and young people’s health and safety 2.4 – Explain how health and safety risk assessments are monitored and reviewed; Health and safety and risk assessments are a major part of the primary school. A major risk assessment is carried out at the start of each new school year to make sure all risks are being covered and new ones identified so they can be closely monitored through out the whole school year. The health and safety policy is also reviewed at the start of the school
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Occupational Health and Safety Questions 1. (15 marks) The TLV for carbon monoxide is 35ppm. Define the terms TLV and ppm and calculate them for the following example: Answer: TVL = Term for airborne concentration of a substance‚ below which all workers are believed to be protected while exposed to it day after day for 8-hour periods. PPM = Concentration by volume of one part of a gas‚ or by weight of a liquid or solid‚ per million parts of air or liquid. A mechanic in
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HEALTH and SAFETY: Professional Discussion and Questions and Answers Q 1: Who do you think are at risk within your work environment? A: The staff‚ individuals who live in the bungalow‚ visitors and other contracted people/ workers who come to work from outside. Q: 2: what measures are there/ or have you in place for the individuals before working with them? A: All the individuals are assessed and have risk assessments written up for them for all their daily living activities
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The Health and Safety at work act 1974 The health and safety at work Act 1974 also referred to as HASAWA is the main part of legislation covering profession health and safety in the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety management is responsible for applying the Act and a number of other rules relevant to the working environment. The health and Safety at Work Act 1974 delivers the legal outline to promote‚ motivate and encourage high standards of health and safety in places of work. This has effect
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LHS4 Develop Health & Safety and Risk Management Policies‚ Procedures and Practices in Health & Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings. Outcome 1 Understand the current legislative framework and organisational health‚ safety and risk management policies‚ procedures and practices that are relevant to health and social care or children and young people’s settings. 1 Explain the legislative framework for health‚ safety and risk management in the work setting. This question is asking
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Assessment criteria 11.1.1 The early year’s foundation stage legislative framework ensures that early years’ children must learn and progress to have enough knowledge they need to start school and ensures that children are healthy and safe. Here is the list of children from birth to five years old entitlements: - • Sure start children’s centre is working with the parent’s right from the birth of the child by providing early years’ education‚ health‚ family support‚ parenting advice includes training and
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