training and supervision to ensure health and safety at work. Employees have a duty to take care of their own health and safety and those of others‚ and must not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided for health and safety. These principles are generally embodied in health and safety legislation in the industrialized world and this means that everyone has statutory obligations (legal requirements) under the various Health and Safety at Work acts in place in the federal
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The health and safety representative is responsible for addressing workplace health and safety issues. The employees of the workplace who do not exercise managerial functions select‚ from among those employees‚ the person to be appointed health and safety representative. If the employees are represented by a trade union‚ then the union selects the person to be appointed after consulting any employees who are not in the union. The health and safety representative’s duties include: * to consider
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QCF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE LEVEL 2 – RAMONA CALOTA Task 1 Task 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate Communicating it can be vital to make quality of life better because someone can they can tell me if they are in pain or it can be make emotional contact to express feelings I communicate to express most of my emotions like joy or sorrow‚ satisfaction or disappointment‚ courage or fear with appropriate words and gestures. The type of communication is very different and it depend
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A REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT OF MY PERSONAL CULTURE AND EXPERIENCES THAT INFLUENCES THE SUPPORT GIVEN TO USERS OF SERVICES AND OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS Nowadays‚ people are becoming more aware of their own beliefs‚ culture and values which are vital in health care settings. Being in a different country with diverse cultural and religious beliefs‚ I personally believe in the existence of God and Jesus as our saviour. Therefore‚ as much as possible I follow and put into practice the teachings
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For this activity our group was Sarah‚ Eliza‚ Nikki and myself and we had to create a literacy pack for the Disability unit. Our pack consisted of four compulsory items and eleven activities of our choice. We all assigned everyone with roughly 4 to 5 tasks but some of them were shared to get them done quicker. We were roughly finishing two to three pieces a week and there was on week that we finished about five items. I feel that our group worked really hard and really well together. Throughout this
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Reflective Account of Increasing a Persons Observations on an Acute Mental Health Ward This essay will discus a decision that was made on a local male acute ward. Using this example‚ an analysis of the decision making process has been made and a reflective model has been used in order to generate personal knowledge that will inform further practice (Rolfe‚ 2011a). A pseudonym of Tim has been used for the discussed patient to maintain confidentiality in accordance with the NMC code of conduct (2010a)
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SHP 3433 SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK DISCUSSION CASE 1 – EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT “Forget it! We are not going to train our employees in first aid. Emergencies notwithstanding‚ I don’t want a bunch of amateur doctors running around the company doing more harm than good.” Mary‚ safety director for Gulf Coast manufacturing‚ was getting nowhere trying to convince her boss that the company should have employees trained in first aid in the event of an emergency. “But John‚ we have had three hurricanes
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yet on these events the staff is evenly split for children’s safety and care. Task 1.3 The sources of current guidance for planning healthy and safe environment and services are given below Health and Safety at Work (1974) The health and safety at work 1974 stresses upon some basic duties of employee and the employer in regards to health and safety; • Every employer shall ensure‚ so far as is reasonably practicable‚ the health‚ safety and welfare at work of their employee.They have to ensure
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Safety & Health at Work SN1794 Assignment 10/3/2013 Joy Mc Inerney Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Explore the role of communications and training in promotion and provision of health and safety in the workplace. 3. Outline the principles and procedures of good housekeeping in the work place 4. Noise‚ dust and fumes are hazards whish commonly found in the work place for one of these hazards outline the risk associated with the exposure to this hazard
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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‚ policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals
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