Health and Safety at work guide
Accidents – An unexpected or unforeseen event that cannot be prevented
Hazards – Anything that has a potential to cause harm (e.g. chemicals challenging behaviour, physical activities or areas of water)
Risk – The chance of injury or harm occurring
- Policies and practices in the workplace (Policy on Risk Assessment)
- The workplace must follow and meet up-to-date legislation
- Risk asses the care environment to uphold service users health and safety
- Raise awareness to employees so they’re conscious of risk
- Staff to ensure risk assessments are completed for all activities
- A risk assessment is defined as process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in an activity or undertaking.
- Management and shift leaders to ensure the risk assessments are completed prior to …show more content…
This also includes visitors to a place of work – The Health and Safety Executive was set up under the HASAWA
- HSE = An independent body which indorses safe working environments and provides information on how this is achieved
- The duties that employers have under the HASAWA
- A safe place to work for staff
- A duty of care to staff
- Safe equipment for staff to use
- Safe people working alongside other employees (E.g. management must teach staff how to recognise their own signs of stress in work places, management to also monitor this
- Risk assessments to prevent risk and incidents
- Training to ensure workers are aware of risk, hazards and potentials for accidents
- Assigning an elected person to take charge of Health and Safety inspections
- Safety regulations are legally enforceable therefore must be followed e.g. Manual Handling
- Set up emergency procedures
- Provide training to staff detailing what Health, Safety and Risk – therefore employees can identify
Accidents – An unexpected or unforeseen event that cannot be prevented
Hazards – Anything that has a potential to cause harm (e.g. chemicals challenging behaviour, physical activities or areas of water)
Risk – The chance of injury or harm occurring
- Policies and practices in the workplace (Policy on Risk Assessment)
- The workplace must follow and meet up-to-date legislation
- Risk asses the care environment to uphold service users health and safety
- Raise awareness to employees so they’re conscious of risk
- Staff to ensure risk assessments are completed for all activities
- A risk assessment is defined as process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in an activity or undertaking.
- Management and shift leaders to ensure the risk assessments are completed prior to …show more content…
This also includes visitors to a place of work – The Health and Safety Executive was set up under the HASAWA
- HSE = An independent body which indorses safe working environments and provides information on how this is achieved
- The duties that employers have under the HASAWA
- A safe place to work for staff
- A duty of care to staff
- Safe equipment for staff to use
- Safe people working alongside other employees (E.g. management must teach staff how to recognise their own signs of stress in work places, management to also monitor this
- Risk assessments to prevent risk and incidents
- Training to ensure workers are aware of risk, hazards and potentials for accidents
- Assigning an elected person to take charge of Health and Safety inspections
- Safety regulations are legally enforceable therefore must be followed e.g. Manual Handling
- Set up emergency procedures
- Provide training to staff detailing what Health, Safety and Risk – therefore employees can identify