Health and safety. This assignment is about how legislation, roles and responsibilities affect people in the workplace, it is the people who are working in the environment to ensure that risks are kept to a minimum;

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Health, safety and security in health and social care                                   Danielle Walton-Rivers, Guys

M1 – Promoting Health and safety in the workplace

This assignment is about how legislation, roles and responsibilities affect people in the workplace, it is the people who are working in the environment to ensure that risks are kept to a minimum; it’s everyone’s responsibility to promote health and safety in the workplace. There are various pieces of legislation that outline what the responsibilities of professionals is, this helps professionals, volunteers and charity workers know how they could be working and what they can to do to promote and support theses pieces of legislation.

Employee responsibilities

Employees play an important part in health and safety, they need to look at legislation and fulfil the role they play in promoting procedures it the employees responsibility to make sure they are working to the right legislation, this is done though going on health and safety courses, this needs to be done a few weeks into employment, this is for employees to under stand the Health and safety at work act, and it is the employees responsibility to ensure they under go this course.  

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Another employee responsibility that promotes health and safety in the work place is being responsible for data protection this is done though training and ensure that any information saved is safe and can’t be accessed by people it’s not supposed to be accessed by, this includes information of a computer and written by hand, any information that is not longer need and is kept on paper needs to be shredder, not torn and put into a bin as people can still access and get the information and this could put some in a difficult and risky situation, there are ...

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