The concept, “health and safety in health and social care

Assignment Example/Template

Insert a picture relevant to Health and
safety on your front page. Make sure
the picture is referenced at the back

Unit 3: Health and Safety in
Health and Social Care
Student Name:
Student I.D:
Submission date:

Insert a contents page. You can do it
in a table format or the way I have done it here. Your choice! Make it nice and neat and professional
looking.

Contents

Introduction to Health and Safety in Health and Social Care Page 4

Task One:Legislation in context (Handout)

1.1Systems and policies of
communicating Health and
Safety information
Page 5

1.2Health and Safety responsibilities
in a Health and Social care setting
Page 6
Task Two:Assessing
the risk (Risk Assessment/ Care Plan)

1.3Health and Safety priorities
in a risk assessment Page
7
2.1 Risk
assessments inform care planning Page 8

Task Three:How
well do the systems work? (Report)

2.3 Dilemmasencountered in
relation to implementing systems and policies for health, safety and
security
Page 9

3.1Monitoring and
reviewing of health and safety policy and practice Page 10

Conclusion
Page 11

Reference
List
Page 1

INTRODUCTION

Write about
what Health and Safety is and its importance in Health and Social Care. Include some interesting health and safety in
the workplace facts. Write about what
topics are going to be covered in your assignment brief.
Your
introduction should be interesting and make the reader want to turn the page
and read more of your assignment.

TASK ONE: Legislation in context
(1.1 and 1.2)
INFORMATION PACK
Communicating methods of Health
and Safety (1.1)

Follow these
steps to answer this criteria:
1. Give a brief
explanation of legislation
2. Identify the
main health and safety legislation in the UK
3. What does
the law say about communicating health and safety in the workplace?
4. Identify
communication methods used to inform about health and safety
5. Pick three
communication methods and explain each in more detail

Responsibilities in health and
social care (1.2)

Follow these
steps to answer these criteria:

1. Whose
responsibility is health and safety?
2. Why is
important to know and follow health and safety responsibilities?
3. What are the
employers responsibilities
4. What are the
employees responsibilities
5. What are the
service users and visitors responsibilities
Use sources like the HSE website to find out responsibilities
within a health and social setting.

The last
three questions can be done within a table

Health and Safety
Responsibilities

Employee Responsibilities

Service
users’and visitors’
Responsibilities

Employers Responsibilities

Task two: Assessing the risk (1.3 and 2.1)

Risk assessment (1.3)

Follow these
steps to answer the criteria:

1. Give a brief
explanation of risk assessments?
2. Why is it
important to do risk assessments?
3. Then do Ted
Jenkins’s risk assessment in the following format.

RISK ASSESSMENT

Client: Ted Jenkins
Ted Jenkins is 70
year old male who has dementia and is slowly declining in cognitive ability
and is prone to depression. He is
recently experiencing a loss of balance as evidence by falls.

Safety Priority

Why is it a safety priority?

How do you deal with this?

Risk
assessments inform care planning (2.1)

Follow these
steps to answer these criteria:

1. What is a
care plan
2. Why is it
important to write care plans
3. What kind of
information goes into care plans
4. How much of
that information comes from risk assessments
5. Why is it
important to have risk assessments done first in order to complete a care plan

Task Three (LO 2.2, 3.2, 2.4 and 3.1): Policies and
practices

Follow these
steps to answer these criteria:

2.2 and 3.2Analyse the impact of this health and safety
policy on health and social care practice and its customers and its
effectiveness in promoting a positive, healthy and safe culture

·
What is Culture and why is it important in the health and social
care practice?
·
List and explain ways of developing a positive health and safety
culture at a health and social care workplace?
·
What are the effects of promoting a positive health and safety
culture?
·
List the impact of promoting the hand hygiene policy on health and
social care practice and its customers

2.4 Which health and safety legislation does the
hand hygiene policy come under? Analyse the effect of non-compliance with this
health and safety legislation in the Graceland day care center.

·
Write and explain the health and safety legislation that the hand hygiene
policy comes under?
·
What is the implication of non-compliance to this legislation in
the Graceland Day Centre?

3.1 Explain how health and safety policies and practices such as the
hand hygiene policy are monitored and reviewed
1. Define the
following
·
Review of Practice?
·
Monitoring?
2. Explain how
Hand hygiene Policy is monitored/Reviewed? What methods can be used to monitor
and review polices like the hand hygiene policy in health and social care
(methods – audits, review of practice, learning from experience, updating of
policies and procedures)

Task Four (2.3 and 3.3): Resolving
dilemmas

Dilemmasencountered in relation to implementing
systems and policies for health, safety and security

Scenario:
You have noticed that Faith, a 72-year-old woman with dementia
has symptoms suggestive of a UTI. When the doctor examines her she is
slightly tender in the lower abdomen and she is febrile and confused. She
does not recognise you or know which day of the week it is. Her dementia has
been gradually worsening over the past few months.

A urine dipstick is
positive for leucocytes and nitrites. The doctor prescribes a course of oral
antibiotics to treat her UTI but Faith does not want to take any more
tablets.

2.3Consider this situation and think about what you can
do to resolve this by usingthe relevant
law (the Mental Capacity Act 2005).Discuss
how this dilemma encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies
for health, safety and security may be addressed.
Follow these steps to answer the following criteria:

1. Give a brief
description of what dilemmas mean
2. Explain what
the mental capacity Act 2005 is about? Use it to resolve Faith’s dilemma.

3.3Evaluate how you would place the
health and safety needs of Faith at the centre of your practice and (Unit 2 1.3) Analyse the benefits of following a person-centered approach
with Faith.

1. What is Duty
of Care?
2. List and
explain each of the steps to take in placing Faith’s health and safety needs at
the centre of your practice?
3. What is
person-centred approach? What are the benefits of following this approach

CONCLUSION

In the
conclusion write a summary of what you learned within this unit and how you will
benefit from this knowledge in the future. How would you put the theory of what
you learnt into practice?

Use this website to generate the source
you have used in Harvard style.
Remember you need to cite in the assignment and at the back as well.

https://www.citethisforme.com/

Reference
List

1 HSE, (2014). [online]
Available at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/law.pdf [Accessed 17 Oct. 2014].
2 Hts-training.co.uk,
(2014). What is RIDDOR? – HTS Training. [online] Available at:
http://www.hts-training.co.uk/faqs/161-riddor-faq.html [Accessed 17 Oct. 2014].
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Use at least 7 references
from different source. Use journals, books and other sources too, not just
websites.