Use work placement experiences to explain a minimum of six potential hazards in a Health or Social Care Setting.

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Health, Safety and security in Health and Social Care

Use work placement experiences to explain a minimum of six potential hazards in a Health or Social Care Setting P1

Hazards can relate to Health, Safety and Security. However, it would be unreasonable to remove the opportunity for service users to be able to take risks, if they wish.

  • Hazard

My first day in my placement I notice a Hazards on the stairs which was water all over the stairs, everywhere was even wet the kid, staff and student on placement was passing through but wasn’t wiping it. one of the children slip on the stairs and soon as she start crying the manager come and ask one staff to clean it up, having a Hazard in a work place anywhere it is bad specially fort children because anything bad will happened.  

  • Hazard

My second notice on Hazard was inside the manager office on my placement all equipment like tidy paper, broken glass and scissors left on the floor, it is danger for children because sometime children comes inside her office to have one to one to see if any thing wrong with them. The manager did not have keep them up she left it on the floor and rush to go for her lunch, and sadly one child went upstairs and saw the equipment come back downstairs and start playing with it by putting it inside her mouth and one staff take it away from the child.

  • Hazard

My third notice was on the heater the staff left it on for all afternoon while the children was sleep after lunch, that is very danger living the heater on around children because anything can happened when the wakeup, the can be touching it and get burn or even touch the plank. When all the children were a wake that the time one staff remembered that the heater was still on and went to close it, and the room where the children was it was so hot at u couldn’t breath properly they even had to take all children out of that room.

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My fourth notice it was on the toilet, it wasn’t flashing properly and the kid was even playing inside the toilet while all the staff was too busy planning for they game and food. It is very dangerous for kid to be left alone when they go to the toilet because they will be playing with the soap and water, some of them even put the finger in the toilet and that it very dangerous because children eat and put every in side they mouth. One staff was going to use the toilet that when she finds out children was inside the toilet playing with water and soap.

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My fifth notice was on some of the staff they did not know how to do the job very properly, and the wasn’t trained for the job. It is dangerous for someone not trained to be around children because she or he mind not know what to do when children cries or needs any think because some children doesn’t ask. The manger doesn’t know that some of them wasn’t trained before starting the job and that is very dangerous too because if she find out they mind be out of the job.

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My last notice was on the door the was open all the time while the staff are busy with some think else. It is very dangerous when the doors are left open because children can be playing with it or go out the street without knowing that it not good. The staffs went and close it after me telling them that the front door is open.

Describe how key legislation in relation to Health, Safety and Security influences Health and Social delivery P2

Health and safety at work Act 1974

The Health and safety at work Act 1974 refer us that HASAWA is the main piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety. The Health and safety executive is responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of the regulations relevant to the working environment.  

An Act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of

persons at work, for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection

with the activities of persons at work, for controlling the keeping and

use and preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous

substances, and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere; to make

further provision with respect to the employment medical advisory service; to

amend the law relating to building regulations, and the Building (Scotland) Act

1959; and for connected purposes.

General duties of employers to their employees

(1) It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably

practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of an employer's duty under the

preceding subsection, the matters to which that duty extends include in particular.

(a) the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are,

so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.

(b) arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable,

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safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling,

storage and transport of articles and substances.

(c) the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision

as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the

health and safety at work of his employees.

(d) so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under

the employer's control, the maintenance of it in a condition that is

safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means

of access to and egress from it that are safe and ...

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