Unit 3- P2 - Describe key legislation in relation to health, safety and security and setting out how this influences health and social care delivery
P3: Using examples from work experience describe how policies and procedures promote health, safety and security in the health and social care workplace
Roles of the employee and employer
Being an employee and employer gives you a lot of roles to undertake and depending on which you are, you have more or less to do, in the table below, there are the roles in which the employer and employee have different and what they share.
Roles determine what you do in certain situations. You may have to deal with a hazard and other times you may just need to call your manager and let them deal with it.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities are more of what you have to do, if you are responsible for something it has to be done or it can have severe consequences. When working in a care setting it is imperative you know of your responsibilities.
Policies and procedure
Organisations must follow the law to ensure the safety of the workers, clients and the property in the home.
According to legal and organisational requirements
The law, policies and procedures are all there for a reason, so that no one gets hurt or has better care than someone else. It is extremely vital ...
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Responsibilities are more of what you have to do, if you are responsible for something it has to be done or it can have severe consequences. When working in a care setting it is imperative you know of your responsibilities.
Policies and procedure
Organisations must follow the law to ensure the safety of the workers, clients and the property in the home.
According to legal and organisational requirements
The law, policies and procedures are all there for a reason, so that no one gets hurt or has better care than someone else. It is extremely vital than when working in a care setting you work to the procedures in place.
Risk assessment
If there’s any possibility of a risk occurring in any situation then a risk assessment must be carried out. You do this by going to the place you are checking for risks and then you have to think of all the possible people that can be harmed, and identify what things could harm the person if there are no risks then you don’t have to record them but if there are risks you have to record them and then act on solving the risks. You then have to review the assessment and update your recording if you need to.
Placement example: At my workplace one of my colleagues wanted to take the children down to the local park, he asked me to go and have a look and see if it would be safe for the children to go. I found that the only problem with the park is the older children’s swings because the children may want to go on them and if not being watched they could fall off, there are no other children at the park because of it being during school hours.
Child protection
In my work placement, everyone who is employed to work for the manager have a major part in looking after children. They have to create a safe learning environment, identify the students that are a risk from harm and they have to make sure they take appropriate action to make sure the children they care for are safe at school and at home.
There are many ways in which people that are looking after children can make sure they are safe
- They are trained in recognising child abuse
- Senior staff member are responsible for looking after the children and making sure they’re safe
- Different checks on their record to make sure they are suitable for looking after a child
- A policy that outlines what happens if a member of staff has been accused of harming a child.
Complaints and Procedures
A child has the right to tell someone if they are concerned about something. The teacher then can get the necessary people involved to solve the problem, meaning the head of year or/and the child’s parents.
If the meeting with the teacher wasn’t good enough then you can have a meeting with the head of the school, if that wasn’t good enough then you can complain to the government of the school if the issue wasn’t resolved at school the following day. You have to make sure you have the school’s complaint procedure and all complaints must be written.
Meals
The children at my work experience have a routine meal at around 12pm, and they have a set place in which they eat too, the dining room, Instead of teachers supervising there are dinner ladies to make sure the children are well behaved. The meals that are being cooked on the specific day should be placed on the menu board. People who decide to bring their own dinners from home have to also eat in the dining room. The dinner ladies employed work both inside to make sure the children aren’t running around and disrupting teachers, and outside where if a child falls over they can help. The cooks have to make sure that the food they cook is cooked properly and has enough nutrition to last the children until they go home.
Fire-drills- and training
When the fire-drill goes off and it’s not a practise then all members of staff should know exactly what to do, there are courses in which they can undertake.
If there is a fire then there needs to be a policy on what to do around the work placement, which in my work placement there is.
Outings
When going on a trip, the staff members have to make sure there are enough teachers or parents going on the trip and that the children’s safety they are taking is the most important thing. If there is a specific thing that the children need than that should be known to their parents in the form of a letter.
The first thing to be done when taking a group of children out on a trip is
- Send out letters to parents to ask for permission to do so, once the letter have been sent out…
- You have to make sure there are enough adults going on the trip to make sure the children going on the trip are safe
When they are on the trip, the teacher in charge has to instruct the children in what they should or shouldn’t do.
First Aid
In a health and social care setting there should be a first aid box and a first aider who knows how to give medical attention. All members of staff should know where the nearest first aid box is and who the nearest first aider is.
If a child has had an accident at school there is normally a letter in which the child takes home with them.
Visitors
When a stranger enters a health and social care setting they have to sign in and they get given a badge and they have to keep it on until they have left the building.
