Hazards in Health and Social Care and the harm that may arise from the hazards Anisa Khan Introduction For this assignment I am going to produce an information booklet for new employees. Within this information booklet I will be explaining potential hazards and the harm that these hazards may arise in health and social care settings. My chosen service user group is the elderly infirm. The working environment in which I will be identifying the hazards is a care home for
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Health and safety in health and social care 1.1 ‘The legislation relating to general health and safety in social care work settings: The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Reporting of Injury‚ Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) Food Safety Act 1990 Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002 Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (PPE) 1992 Manual Handling Operations Regulations
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(C1) It is important for childcare practitioners to consider the individual care and learning needs of every child within their care‚ which will allow them to plan a challenging and enabling environment which supports all areas of learning and development. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) states that: “Every child is a unique child” and will therefore not always learn in the same way or at the same time. A child with special educational needs should have an Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
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Unit 3 M1 In this assignment I am going to describe how health and safety legislation‚ policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals in a health or social care setting. Firstly‚ all health and social care settings should have fluent staff training; this is to ensure that all staff is actually aware of the policies‚ safety legislation and procedures they will have to follow when working in the health and social care setting. The manager should go through all potential procedures that
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caregiver problems‚ they are population level and public health concerns. Philosophical imperative to protect children The Nursing profession has a strong historical foundation in social justice. Social justice is a concept that has been analyzed‚ argued and debated about for decades in the nursing literature‚ but there seems to be relative agreement that nursing has demonstrated a commitment to addressing the social determinants of health‚ to advocating for the underserved and the vulnerable
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race is a great way to explore the different types of races there are in the world. That way we can learn new things and gather information about them. Religion: Making friends‚ visiting places to study or worship in places of different religious practices. Languages: Learning new languages‚ for example Hindi‚ French‚ Latin‚ and Bengali or getting involved in cultural events like Eid‚ Hanukah‚ Diwali‚ and Ramadan outside of our own cultural events. Give some statistics/examples of different types
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Unit 4222-307 Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care setting Outcome 1 Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings 1. Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. OUTCOME 1 1. Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. All of the staff need to make sure that confidentiality is paramount
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Understand potential hazards in Health and Social Care Assignment Introduction In this unit I will explain six potential hazards in a Health and Social Care setting. These hazards in the Health and Social Care setting can all affect the people working in that environment; there are a lot of hazards which can be found in every surface of the setting. In a residential or day care setting‚ much is done to ensure that service users‚ and therefore staff as well‚ are protected from harm. The group of users
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Unit 8 Task 2. Ways to avoid stereotyping and discrimination in a Care home. (P4) Meals In Care Homes‚ when it comes to meal time the patients should then be treated with a lot of respect as they will not be able to do as much as they can. They should have food of their choice from a selection of meals‚ instead of being given the exact same meal as everyone else as they may not like it. Also food to suit their culture/religion for example halaal meat‚ or no meat at all. The time they eat as
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complete a further six years of training after they complete their medical degree. A paediatrician may work as part of a hospital‚ group practice or see patients on his or her own. Paediatricians may also open up their own private practices to see
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