Health and Safety Policy of Dublin Bus This safety statement has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of Sections 19 & 20 of the Safety‚ Health & Welfare at Work Act‚ 2005. This Safety Statement specifies commitment‚ lines of responsibility and accountability for safety together with a list of Risk Assessments within the organisation. In July 2007 new and revised “General Application Regulations 2007” were published. These Regulations were signed into Law on the 1st November 2007. Prescribed
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investigate the health and safety issues and examine the role of risk assessment and other important policies that should exist in the workplace. “It is estimated that 1.6 million accidents occur each year in the workplace with a cost to the industry of around £700m” (Ref.1). This is why it is hugely necessary to take the rights steps in trying to prevent people from being injured at work. This process is called Health and Safety. Every business has its legal responsibility to work in within Health and Safety
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Q1. To address the problems provide at least five (5) culturally competent care to actively partake in the multicultural health care setting. Now days‚ multicultural populations in other states were offering new challenges in the provision of culturally competent care by critical care nurses. If the provision of the best possible care for all patients is the goal‚ critical care nurses must have expertise and skill in the delivery of culturally appropriate and culturally competent nursing care
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1.3 : Within any health and social care setting‚ interpersonal communication is vital between service provider and service user. During the process of interpersonal communication‚ there is always a sender‚ which sends a message across and a receiver on the opposite end to give feedback/reply. It was mentioned by Podmoroff (2013) that interpersonal communication skills are learned and can be improved. There are many methods and techniques that can be carried out to deliver appropriate interpersonal
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Briefly outline what Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is and how the initiatives on reporting CSR have developed over the past few decades. Explain what the Global Reporting Initiative is. Social responsibility has been a term used in business since the 1700’s with to focus then being child labour and increasing working conditions. It was only during the 1970’s when social responsibility gathered pace and a definition was given “The social responsibility of business encompasses the economic
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1. Describe the duties and responsibilities of own role. As a care assistant my duties include giving personal care to residents‚ such as washing‚ dressing‚ toileting and assisting with nutritional needs. It is my responsibility to ensure that company policies and procedures are followed to maintain the best possible care for the residents. 2. Identify standards that influence the way the role is carried out. Care standards act 2000 Health and safety at work act 1974 Codes of practice National
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its goals to avoid becoming distracted by relationships and emotional issues. Compromises may be required to enable progress. Norming Agreement and consensus is largely forms among team‚ who respond well to facilitation by leader. Roles and responsibilities are clear and accepted. Big decisions are made by group agreement. Smaller decisions may be delegated to individuals or small teams within group. Commitment and unity is strong. The
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business and employment law‚ identify the key features relating to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and will then evaluate the Acts’ significance in protecting the rights and interests of the workforce. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA) brought in a new approach to dealing with the risks to people at work. Prior to HSWA there were approximately 30 Acts and over 500 regulations dealing with health and safety in the work place. The situation was confusing and unfair in that it afforded
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Health and social care settings Everyone is an individual and when they need to use the health and social care services it is import they have access to the setting which precisely meets their needs‚ different setting are designed to do just that and the trained staff within those settings have the skills and knowledge to meet those particular needs. Key elements: If everyone who needed support turned up at the same place‚ things would become rather crowded; more importantly‚ not everyone would
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The key legislations relating to health and safety in a social care setting are - Health and Safety at work Act 1974 Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999 Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulation 1981 include amendment on 2009 The Electricity at Work regulations 1989 Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 Communicable diseases and infection control Working Time Regulations 1998 Care Standard
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