Health And safety 4222-306 The health and safety act consists of various principles‚ these are implemented to ensure employees are safe whilst at work‚ this doesn’t just apply those those who are employed by a company it applies to any one who enters the building including professional bodies I.e district nurses‚ And general practitioners the legislation is made up of COSHH‚RIDDOR‚The manual handling operations regulations‚ the health and safety first aid regulations and management of health
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the saliva‚ seminal fluid or the blood. Prevention methods including hand washing‚ the social care worker’s and others’ personal hygiene. The preventions methods of infection control are: * Hand hygiene is decontamination of the hands by either washing or the application of alcohol hand rub products. The importance of hand hygiene in the prevention of cross infection particularly in healthcare settings. The way you should wash your hands are: * Wet hands under continuous running water
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of work it is in. For example working in a health and social care environment will most definitely require you to have strong communication skills‚ because you’re not just dealing with yourself and/or immediate work colleagues; you are made to deal with a whole variety of people of different ages and backgrounds that will be seeking your help or the reciprocal. With having good communication skills‚ this allows people that work in the health and social care sector to have better interpersonal skills
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Health and Social Care BTEC In Task two I’m going to describe in depth how‚ policies and procedures promote safety in a health and social care setting. Legalisation is a law which has created by the government. There are many legalisation‚ policies and procedures that are really important which have been put into place as they have a purpose to promote and protect the health and safety of individuals in a health and social care setting. One important piece of legalisation is (COSSH) (The control
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Unit 1- communication Reflect on my one-to-one interaction During my one-to-one interaction I played the role of a nurse working in the A&E department of a hospital‚ my role was to find out the cause for my patients abdominal pains‚ to find out the cause of my patients pains I did a series of tests that would give me possible answers to her problem‚ in the end as a nurse it was my duty to inform the teenager that she is pregnant‚ but to do so in a calm and supportive manor. At the start
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CT 301 1.1 List legislation relating to general health and safety in a sociel care setting. Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (also referred to as HSWA‚ the HSW Act‚ the 1974 Act or HASAWA) is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. The Health and Safety Executive‚ with local authorities (and other enforcing authorities) is responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of other Acts and Statutory Instruments relevant to the working environment
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A possible influence on dietary intake could be diabetes; its full name is diabetes mellitus. It is a condition where insulin is not being produced by the pancreas or it is not being produced in sufficient amounts or even the body cannot use insulin properly. There are two types of diabetes IDDM which is commonly known as type 1 this is the most severe type of diabetes and is treated with insulin injections. MIDDM is known as type 2 diabetes and is less serious it can be treated with diet or tablets
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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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Unit 306 Promote and Implement health and safety in social care 306.1 – Understand own responsibilities‚ and the responsibilities of others‚ relating to health and safety What it represents: All workers have the right to work in places where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Health and Safety is about stopping you getting hurt at work or ill through work. It is the employer’s responsibility to manage Health and Safety but employees must help too. The company I work for
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Tina Kenny 15.09.14 Unit 520: Recruitment and selection within health and social care settings. Outcome 1: Understand the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care settings. 1.1 Explain the impact on selection and recruitment processes‚ in own setting of: 1.2 Explain circumstances when it is necessary to seek specialist expertise in relation to recruitment and selection. Answers: 1.1 & 1.2 In health and social care the recruitment and selection process is that‚ initial employment
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