Health & Safety at Work Act (1974) • Sets out duties that employers have to employees and what duties employees have to themselves and others. • Steps employers must take; - Carry out assessments of H & S risks - Make arrangements for any risks found in assessment to be mended. - Keep a record of assessments & adjustments made as a result. - Draw up a H & S Policy and drawing the employees attention to it. - Appointing competent people to carry out H & S adjustments. - Provide clear emergency procedures
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Understand health and safety in social care settings 1.1 Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting Health and Safety at work Act 1974 - An Act to make further provision for securing the health‚ safety and welfare of persons at work‚ for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 - any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting‚ putting down
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Unit 306 Promote and Implement Health and Safety in Health and Social Care * 1.3 Analyse the main health and safety responsibilities of * Self: As an employee I have a legal duty to take responsibility to care for my own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by what I do or don’t do. Also to co-operate with my employer with health and safety. To correctly use work items and equipment provided by my employer‚ which includes personal protective equipment‚ in accordance
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Health and Safety Assignment 2 Task D Introduction In this part of the assignment I will look at a case study and evaluate this in term of risk assessment‚ I will use this information to determine recommendations for care planning and management of Mr Campbell the service user. I will discuss how dilemmas within the case study can be addressed by implementing policies and systems for Health‚ Safety and Security. Ref 1 Risk assessment Risk assessment is the process of evaluating risks to workers’
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Health Issues in the Philippines Like any other third-world country‚ the Philippines have been struggling in some health issues and one of it is illegal drug use. A lot of Filipinos are addicted to prohibited drugs. However‚ the Philippine government has dealt with this issue and although there are still some recorded incidents of drug abuse‚ the number of drug dependents in the Philippines has gradually decreased. One major health issue in the Philippines‚ is malnutrition. There have been studies
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major public health issue in the United States‚ which is commonly overlooked‚ is the prevalence of individuals with mental retardation. According to an article on Medscape’s eMedicine web site‚ “mental retardation (MR)‚ also known as intellectual disability (ID)‚ is a descriptive term for sub-average intelligence and impaired adaptive functioning arising in the developmental period (age less than 18 years) (Zeldin‚ 2012). Intellectual disability is a major social‚ educational and health problem in
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Health Issue Paper Value: 20% Due date: 12-Aug-2013 Return date: 02-Sep-2013 Length: 1000 words Submission method options EASTS (online) Hand delivery (option applies to Internal only) Task Select ONE (1) of the following issues which relates to the social organisation of health care: * Support by the medical profession for private health insurance * Medical malpractice * The rise of nurse practitioners * The struggle by allied health practitioners to achieve professional
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business logos or advertisements but has a wide range of specialist in website and graphic design. Workplace procedures At Snap Printing‚ a number of procedures are used to train and maintain the safety of their staff. Considering the amount of hours spent operating a computer‚ an important factor of safety would be posture and taking frequent breaks. Other less frequent procedures are also important‚ such as running emergency fire drills or doing a first aid course. In an office environment‚ such
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Ethical Issues in Health Abortion Abortion is one of the most polarising moral issues in today’s society. It presents an ethical dilemma for many people and especially all healthcare professionals involved. Firstly‚ this essay will begin by briefly outlining the highly controversial issue of abortion‚ discuss why this topic draws fierce debate‚ for and against‚ and explain the current legal standing in the UK today. It will then move on to explain how different ethical models can be used in relation
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For the past few years the issue of mental illness has been rising and becoming a bigger problem. The United Nations has suggested guidelines on how to handle mental illness to help Member States but the issue is still very minor in the eyes of the specific. There is a foundation called the World Health Organization (WHO) located in Switzerland and was established in. 1948. WHO is known for keeping the people of the world healthy and ensures the availability of more than about 250 essential medicines
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