Legislation relating to health and safety in a health or social care work setting; • Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) 1974 - ensures the health and safety of everyone who may be affected by work activities. • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (MHSWR) 1999 - requires employers and managers to carry out risk assessments to eliminate or minimise risks to health and safety. • Workplace‚ (Health‚ Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 - minimises the risks to health and safety associated
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Unit 3- health and wellbeing Definitions: Health and wellbeing meanings come in three forms-holistic‚ positive and negative. Health and wellbeing’s meaning cannot be fixed because health means different things to different people‚ and your intellectual thinking of health can change from day to day; depending on your experiences you go through. Literally the word health comes from an old English word meaning “the state of being hale‚ sound or whole‚ in body mind or soul”. This tells us that our
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Assignment 1: • INTRODUCING WRITING FOR COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL ACTION In my first Semester of Master of Arts in Community Development in the subject Unit of COD545 Community Development Theory and Practice I need to work on Assignment on Volunteer service provider at Community development organization. I am trying to contact and build relationships with‚ NGOs and convincing to them for volunteer service which I can provide to them during their community outreach project implemented for the development
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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 Act 2000 Control
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Unit 2: equality diversity and rights in health and social LO2: discriminatory practice in health and social care Objectives: All learners should be able to define basis of discrimination. All learners should be able to explain basis of discrimination Most learners should be able to demonstrate discriminatory practice Some learners should be able to describe effects of discriminatory practice. Basis of discriminatory Culture A person’s culture is important to them and identifies
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needs and feelings of other people (Skillsyouneed‚ No date). In simple terms it is treating people with respect‚ fairness and consistency (Martin‚ Charlesworth and Henderson 2010) Communication takes place in many different contexts within Health and Social Care such as; one
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1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role: A duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on any individual working within the care sector that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care whilst performing any acts that could foreseeable harm others. It is my responsibility that: - Whilst caring for an individual I promote their independency and assist them to understand and exercise their rights. - That I use established processes and procedures to challenge and
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Communication is the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking‚ writing‚ or using some other medium. With in all health and social care settings workers have to talk to service users. It’s important that they are communicated to in the correct way to way and they are made to feel accepted and respected. Verbal communication Verbal communication is getting across a message‚ idea‚ or feeling through the use of mouth. Verbal communication is the main way of communicating face-to-face. The
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increased risk of complications and the need for extra equipment and staff. http://news.aol.co.uk/bigstorynews/fat-pregnant-women-burden-on-nhs/article/20070307070509990004 (17/04/08). The study found out that obese pregnant mothers need more one to one care‚ which can have an impact on waiting tomes for the patients. This also means that the NHS will have to spend a lot of money for these services. I chose this topic because my younger sister she overweight. By comparing the information
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hospital and intermediate care This guide has been supported by RCN PUBLISHING ESSENTIAL GUIDE ESSENTIAL GUIDE Written by Hazel Heath‚ independent nurse consultant for older people‚ Deborah Sturdy‚ nurse adviser older people at the Department of Health‚ and Amanda Cheesley‚ service manager intermediate care‚ South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust Contents 3 3 3 4 6 13 14 Introduction Department of Health guidance The ten operating principles Person-centred care and patient empowerment
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