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The Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978 legally enforces responsibilities to employers with the organisation to look after the health and safety of all their employees. This legislation also requires the employees to comply with the guidelines put in place for their own health and safety. There are many regulations that have been developed under this order concerning the Health and Safety at work. These regulations require that employers perform risk assessments and provide employees with information and training if necessary (health-ni.gov.uk, n.d).
A regulation made under the law of Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978 is the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 2000 (NI). This regulation sets out …show more content…
The RQIA is an independent body whose responsible inspecting and monitoring the quality of health and safety within care services and encouraging any necessary improvements. Organisations standards must meet the requirements of the RQIA, therefore there must be up to date records such as risk assessments. This will show that there is accountability and clarity within the workplace (RQIA, 2011).
All health and social care services face risks and risk management is about taking responsible steps to avoid risks, reduce the likelihood of risk occurring or sometimes to accept the consequences of risk. Risk assessing is a continual, formal process and every organisation, will have a risk management policy in place.
The Health and Safety Executive guide ‘Managing Health and Safety,’ advises organisation of steps to success. Below is a cycle of an appropriate approach that should always be taken to manage health and safety in the workplace (Martin and Henderson, 2001).
The first step is developing or setting up a clear written health and safety policy. This can be carried out by reviewing previous achievements and yearly comparisons. The most important aspect to look at here is whether organisational policies are working, and other aspects such as weather the organisation has been losing out on money through ineffective management of health and …show more content…
This can be carried out through inductions on the commencement of the job role. This is where it is made clear of individual responsibilities and how important it is to follow the policies and procedures within the workplace.
The workplace promotes health and safety in provision of appropriate training. For e.g. a care home will provide individuals with training on how to use hoists. This training is provided to ensure staff know exactly how to hoist a service user from A to B without putting themselves or the service user in danger. Employees will be informed of any changes or renewing of training.
Being proactive in reporting any concerns to the manager, whether the individual feels it may be ‘just playing on their head’ and be stupid. This will maintain a safe culture environment as no matter what the issue is, it is useful to report any concerns before problems arise, than to have to deal with the consequences of not reporting. This also involves the individual taking on responsibility and accountability for all
The Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978 legally enforces responsibilities to employers with the organisation to look after the health and safety of all their employees. This legislation also requires the employees to comply with the guidelines put in place for their own health and safety. There are many regulations that have been developed under this order concerning the Health and Safety at work. These regulations require that employers perform risk assessments and provide employees with information and training if necessary (health-ni.gov.uk, n.d).
A regulation made under the law of Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978 is the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 2000 (NI). This regulation sets out …show more content…
The RQIA is an independent body whose responsible inspecting and monitoring the quality of health and safety within care services and encouraging any necessary improvements. Organisations standards must meet the requirements of the RQIA, therefore there must be up to date records such as risk assessments. This will show that there is accountability and clarity within the workplace (RQIA, 2011).
All health and social care services face risks and risk management is about taking responsible steps to avoid risks, reduce the likelihood of risk occurring or sometimes to accept the consequences of risk. Risk assessing is a continual, formal process and every organisation, will have a risk management policy in place.
The Health and Safety Executive guide ‘Managing Health and Safety,’ advises organisation of steps to success. Below is a cycle of an appropriate approach that should always be taken to manage health and safety in the workplace (Martin and Henderson, 2001).
The first step is developing or setting up a clear written health and safety policy. This can be carried out by reviewing previous achievements and yearly comparisons. The most important aspect to look at here is whether organisational policies are working, and other aspects such as weather the organisation has been losing out on money through ineffective management of health and …show more content…
This can be carried out through inductions on the commencement of the job role. This is where it is made clear of individual responsibilities and how important it is to follow the policies and procedures within the workplace.
The workplace promotes health and safety in provision of appropriate training. For e.g. a care home will provide individuals with training on how to use hoists. This training is provided to ensure staff know exactly how to hoist a service user from A to B without putting themselves or the service user in danger. Employees will be informed of any changes or renewing of training.
Being proactive in reporting any concerns to the manager, whether the individual feels it may be ‘just playing on their head’ and be stupid. This will maintain a safe culture environment as no matter what the issue is, it is useful to report any concerns before problems arise, than to have to deal with the consequences of not reporting. This also involves the individual taking on responsibility and accountability for all