How legislation, policies and procedures promote health, safety and security in health social care settings

the health & safety of employees, workers from other organisations and visitors on the premises.Employers must carry out risk assessments.Write a health & safety policy appropriate for the setting.There must be records kept of all accidents and incidents.Employers must provide relevant safety equipment and training.Employers must ensure the workplace has compulsory liability insurance.Employees must take reasonable care of their own, and others health & safety.All care setting must have a named health & safety representative. They must ensure this person is trained. This means the impact on the setting is initially one of cost. The setting must pay for the relevant training and ensure the named person has regular updates. This can impact on the setting as it means that shifts may have to be covered, therefore increasing the cost to the setting.Other ways in which this law can influence a care setting is to ensure the setting is providing a high quality of care, using relevantly trained staff.Data Protection Act 1998All data must be processed accurately and fairly.  Peoples data should be  collected only for one or more specified and lawful purpose only, and it should not be used for any other reasonsAll data must be up to datePersonal data should not be kept when it is not needed anymoreAn individual has the right to remove things that are not accurate.Personal information should not be processed or sent to other countriesAll care setting should process data accurately and fairlyThe care setting must used the data for a specified purpose and also must be lawful.  All care setting must keep all the data up to date.All care setting worker must keep it private and should not share with other people.All care setting must get rid of data which is mo longer needed, it should also be regularly updated.All care setting must not send data to other countriesControl of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) 2002Assessment of the risksDeciding what actions that needs to be takencontrol of the risksEnsuring that control measures are used and maintainedMonitoring exposure and healthTraining the employees about risks, injuries, precautions and how to deal with them.Protecting people in the workplace from any health diseasesAll care setting employees must be trained on how to deal with actions that need to be taken whenever in a situation.All employees must know the control of the risksAll care setting must ensure that control measures are used and maintained The care setting must provide training on dealing with risks, injuries in the care setting as this may prevent less risks. Care Minimum Standards 2003All people must receive the same care and attention.Promote good careProvide high quality care and supportThe care setting must make sure that they are all trained and try to promote same care and attention to everyoneAll employees must provide good careThe health care must provide high quality care and service.  Phone: 555-555-5555 Fax: 555-555-5555 E-mail: [email protected] Product/Service Information Suffolk New College Tel: 555 555 5555 Your business tag line here.