Using examples from work experiences, describe how policies and procedures promote health, safety and security in the workplace.My work placement is in a primary school which caters for children aged from three to eleven years old, including the pre-schoo

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Using examples from work experiences, describe how policies and procedures promote health, safety and security in the health and social care workplace.

My work placement is in a primary school which caters for children aged from three to eleven years old, including the pre-school pupils. Because the school is used daily and is a busy environment, there are various policies, procedures and regulations in place to ensure that the staff and children’s health, safety and security is in good hands and at the centre of the provision along with providing those children with an excellent education.

One of the policies and procedures in place for the children’s welfare is the ‘Responsible Internet Use’ policy. The policy lays out rules for pupils and for parents as to what is appropriate during ICT lessons and internet usage time, along with clear guidelines as to what is expected from pupils when they use the internet and email access when they are at school. ‘’We use the school computers and Internet connection for learning. These rules will help us to be fair to others and keep everyone safe… I will ask permission before entering any website, unless my teacher has already approved that site… The messages I send will be polite and sensible… If I see anything I am unhappy with or I receive messages I do not like, I will tell a teacher immediately… I understand that if I deliberately break these rules, I could be stopped from using the internet or computers’’ The above quote was taken from the ‘Email and internet use good practice- Rules for ICT users’ letter which the school provided parents with and requested that both pupils and parents signed and returned the letter to the school.

This policy promotes the health, safety and security of the schools service providers as with these rules in place, the children should obey them which will result in the pupils not entering any inappropriate websites and/or seeing any obscenities on the internet that could mentally disturb them. This policy doesn’t exactly benefit the pupils physically in terms of health and safety but mentally, emotionally and intellectually it does. By securing these inappropriate websites, pupils will not have access to sites which are not made and designed for children which reduces the risk of the children coming into contact with these sites and upsetting or disturbing them as well as distracting them from their education. This policy also promotes health, safety and security as without access to social networking sites at schools; it is less likely for children to become victims of cyber bullying. Bullying can damage individuals’ health and they can become mentally unstable in worse cases.

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There are strengths and weaknesses to all policies and a strength to this particular policy is that there is a section of it in which pupils and parents must agree to the rules before they are allowed to use the internet. Another strength is that there will be less bullying in the school as a result of this policy and therefore the children will be able to enjoy going to school and not worry about being bullied. However there are also weaknesses to this policies; pupils may not abide by the rules and rebel against them which in cases like ...

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