...Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace Student: PETAGAY CONWAY Lecturer: CATHY MANDAZA Group: 50 Definition of health and safety management is planned work and actions to identify dangers in workplace so you can reduce incidents and dealings to situations and substances that is harmful. As well as training of workers in prevention of accidents, incident responses, readiness for emergency, and use of protecting equipment’s and clothing. (Business dictionary, 2014) My assignment will show an understanding safety legislation how it’s implemented, responsibility and priority in the health and social care industry; outline understanding how health and safety requirements impact on patients and practitioners in the health and social care settings, illustrate kinds of monitoring, reviewing , own contribution in health and safety in the healthcare work settings. 1.1Task facing director at North Staffordshire Combined NHS Trust is ensuring information on H&S is effectively communicated to employees, service users and visitors to premises. The director will therefore need to look at the schemes, legislation’s, policies and procedures currently in place for communicating information, review them to ensure they are working efficiently. (ALDWORTH.2010.pp .101.106) Legislations is a group of laws design to rule or control behaviour. Policy is a document explaining the expected standards of establishment’s, procedures instruct how to carry out a duty to particular...
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...The aims and benefits of Occupational Health and Safety Management As known to all, there are always such-and-such potential hazards in people's work activities or work environment, which may cause property damage, be harmful to environment, affect human’s health and even cause injury or accident. People call the possibility of one or some danger causing incidents and its possible consequence as risk. The object of contemporary occupational health and safety management is the occupational safety and health risks. These hazards may be chemical, physical, biological, related to human work efficiency and others, the factors of which include personal factor, equipment factor, environmental factor and organizational and management factor. Occupational health and safety is a series of measures and the corresponding activities adloyee’s income, prevent employee from injury and create less stress from employee, thus employee may obtain more physical and psychological satisfaction. Occupational health and safety management includes accident investigation and recording, work system designing, examination of workplace, training, complete incentives, supervision and employee aids plan. What is a hazard? The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 defines a hazard as ‘anything (including work practices or procedures) that has the potential to harm the health or safety of a person’. Hazards can be grouped into five broad areas: o physical eg. noise, radiation, light...
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...Importance of Health and Safety in Workplace * developing health and safety policies; * conducting risk assessments which identify hazards and assess the risks attached to them; * carrying out health and safety audits and inspections; * implementing occupational health programs; * managing stress; preventing accidents; * measuring health and safety performance; * communicating the need for good health and safety practices; * training in good health and safety practices; . The employer’s duty of care includes providing: * a physical and psychosocial work environment without risks to health and safety; * safe systems of work; * information, training, instruction or supervision necessary to protect all persons from risks to their health and safety. This includes involving them when: * identifying and assessing the risks to health and safety in the workplace; * making decisions about ways to eliminate or minimize risks; * making decisions about procedures for monitoring the health and safety of workers or conditions at the workplace or providing information and training for workers on risks and controls. Management Role in Safety and Health The specific roles are summarized below: * Management develops and implements health and safety policies and ensures that procedures for carrying out risk assessments, safety audits and inspections are implemented. Importantly, management has the duty of monitoring and evaluating health and safety...
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...Implementing An Ergonomic Program In Workplace Introduction To Health And Safety System Dated 04/22/2015 Introduction: Ergonomics is a scientific discipline, which is concerned with improving the productivity, health, safety and comfort of people, as well as promoting effective interaction among people, technology and the environment in which both must operate. In a more practical sense, ergonomics is the science of human comfort. When aspects of work or the workplace challenge or stress the human body beyond its capabilities, the result is often a musculoskeletal injury (MSI). O/E (overexertion injury) RSIs (repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries) ASTDs (activity-related soft tissue disorders) CTDs (cumulative trauma disorders) Whatever name is used, these injuries belong to a group of sprain and strain injuries that can affect muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, blood vessels, or spinal discs in the body. To help avoid MSIs, work demands should not exceed the physical capabilities of the worker. A proactive initiative will be described in the following case study is how to implement an ergonomics program into a workplace of 20 employees. Human Resources Department’s support beside management in executing the ergonomics program will increase workers productivity and proficiency. In this case study there are five steps that will be used to develop and implement the program called ‘The Leadership Activities For Managing Control Model’...
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...Requirement North Shore Pulp and Paper Ltd. will develop a program to safeguard their employees from any potentially hazardous workplace environments and scenarios by complying with the standards set by the Occupational Health and Safety acts and legislation. Responsibilities * President: The President will ensure that all resources necessary to provide a proper legislation will be acquired in order to meet or exceed all requirements created. * Vice President: The Vice-President will be responsible for ensuring that the legislation is being properly implemented and also review the policy consistently to ensure that any changes necessary are being made. * Managers: It is imperative that management is developing all policies and procedures required. Managers are also responsible to ensure that all supervisors and employees are aware of their rights in regards to: The right to know about hazards (O. Reg. 860), The right to participate in the Health and Safety process (Act S. (43)), and The right to stop work (Act S. (44)). * Supervisors: Supervisors will be held responsible for ensuring that all employees are aware of the legislative requirements presented by North Shore Pulp and Paper. It is also their responsibility to inform the Health and Safety rep of any incidents and to aid in the investigation. * Workers: The workers will be dealing with the hazards on a first hand basis. It is their responsibility to ensure that they are following all procedure and putting...
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...worker can be exposed day after day for a working lifetime without adverse health effects. Strictly speaking, TLV is a reserved term of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, it is sometimes loosely used to refer to other similar concepts used in occupational health and toxicology. TLVs, along with biological exposure indices (BEIs), are published annually by the ACGIH. The TLV is an estimate based on the known toxicity in humans or animals of a given chemical substance, and the reliability and accuracy of the latest sampling and analytical methods. It is not a static definition since new research can often modify the risk assessment of substances and new laboratory or instrumental analysis methods can improve analytical detection limits. The TLV is a recommendation by ACGIH, with only a guideline status. As such, it should not be confused with exposure limits having a regulatory status, like those published and enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The OSHA regulatory exposure limits permissible exposure limits (PELs) published in 29CFR 1910.1000 Table Z1 are based on recommendations made by the ACGIH in 1968, although other exposure limits were adopted more recently. Many OSHA exposure limits are not considered by the industrial hygiene community to be sufficiently protective levels. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) publishes recommended exposure limits (RELs) which OSHA takes...
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...EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN LARFARGE (WAPCO) PLC. EWEKORO, OGUN STATE. 2012 EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN LARFARGE (WAPCO) PLC. EWEKORO, OGUN STATE. BY BADEKALE OLUSEUN FELIX B.Sc. INDUSTRIAL AND LABOUR RELATIONS (OOU) MATRIC NO: 165802 BEING A RESEARCH WORK SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS IN INDUSTRIAL AND PERSONNEL RELATIONS (M.I.P.R) UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, NIGERIA SEPTEMBER, 2012. BADEKALE, Oluseun Felix. B.Sc. ILR (OOU) Matric. No. 165802 Page 1 EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN LARFARGE (WAPCO) PLC. EWEKORO, OGUN STATE. 2012 CERTIFICATION This is to certify that this project was carried out by BADEKALE OLUSEUN FELIX under my supervision ………………………………… DR. E.E. OKAFOR ……………………………… DATE BADEKALE, Oluseun Felix. B.Sc. ILR (OOU) Matric. No. 165802 Page 2 EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN LARFARGE (WAPCO) PLC. EWEKORO, OGUN STATE. 2012 DEDICATION This research work is dedicated to the glory of God Almighty who within all ups and down has chosen to make this a success. BADEKALE, Oluseun Felix. B.Sc. ILR (OOU) Matric. No. 165802 Page 3 EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN LARFARGE...
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...employee under health, safety and welfare in a workplace. An employee is a person who is hired to provide services to a company. In exchange for the work they do they receive compensation. Employees have duties that they must follow. Good safety management is essential for the employer and employee to work together. An employee should talk to their employer if they have any questions that are related to safety, health and welfare. Every employee should ask their employer for the company's safety statement if they have not already received a copy of it. This is a plan on how to keep employees safe at work. An employee should always be alert and aware of their surroundings in case an accident was to occur. They should also look out for unusual behaviour from their work colleagues. If anything unusual does happen they should bring it to the attention of their employer. If an employee feels they are unsafe in the workplace and are unable to handle the problem, they should inform their employer. Accidents that occur in a workplace may happen due to people rushing their job, taking chances and cutting corners. An employee must think about what could happen if they are not careful and they must try to do everything they can to stop it from happening. Employees must remember that the worker safety, health and welfare is not en employers full responsibility. • Employees must follow the laws that are put in place. They should protect their own safety and health along with the safety and health...
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...occur. Statistical research has shown that 88% of all workplace related accidents are caused by unsafe acts, 10% of accidents are caused by unsafe conditions while the remaining percentage of 2 % is a result of providence or natural causes. The statistics clearly shows that accidents can be prevented and the ultimate losses can be minimized. It is a matter of individual and collective responsibility. UNSAFE ACTS Unsafe acts cause more than four times as many accidents as unsafe conditions. This clearly shows that people have more to fear from their own actions than any other job hazards around them. People deliberately expose themselves to injury and or death mainly where they perform an activity in a manner that threatens their health and safety and of others. Unsafe acts are mainly a result of negative and inconsistent attitudes by staff members. The following attitudes by staff members have a great potential to cause accidents; Over Confidence. Staff members have a tendency of being over confident with their work activities even on operations that are dangerous. They...
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...4 Essay No. 2 – Health and Safety (487 words) In recent years, it would seem that that there are more and more health and safety guidelines and regulations in the workplace that Engineers must be aware of. These apply to all sectors of the workplace, but are they doing anything to make the workplace any safer. The statistics would say that that the workplace has not got any safer over the last few years. The Health and Safety Authority statistics on work related fatalities tells us that in 1990 there were 73 work related fatalities, 69 in 1999, 70 in 2005 and 67 in 2007. For 2007, the construction industry had the highest number of fatalities (18) and this was an increase from 13 in 2006. This was followed by Fishing (12 compared to 2 in 2006) and then by Agriculture (11 compared to 18 in 2006). There were 2 worker fatalities in the Manufacturing sector. The latest European Union data also indicates that number of Irish work related fatalities is higher than the European average (approximately 3 fatalities per 100,000 Irish workers compared to approximately 2 fatalities per 100,000 European workers). There has been little change in the annual injury rate over the last four years. What do all these statistics mean to us as Engineers? Engineers are employed in virtually all of the sectors that these fatalities and injuries occur in, and there are many Engineers employed in the construction sector in particular. Larger companies, particularly in manufacturing have been...
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... INTRODUCTION/ HISTORY Companies suffer a considerable loss due to accidents, and it is reflected in paying insurance cost, repair of the damage machinery, slowing down of production, additional charges on training of new specialists, and so on. Thus, a special system of accident investigation or, in other words, loss causation investigation is widely in practice. Accident investigations are conducted not only to prevent material loss, physical injury or corrective measures – the point is also to assure that the injured worker gets all material compensation necessary, or, instead, to oppose false insurance claims. Thus, inadequate safety program is reflected in the lack of workers training, necessary inspections of the equipment and so on. Inadequate safety program standards are evident when workers do not understand the peculiarity of the safety program and how to apply it, that is why insufficient compliance to standards occurs. Before a loss occurs (Injury, illness, damage, loss in process), there are series of events that take place with a root cause that begins this series of events. The root cause is called a Lack of Control (Inadequate standards, lack of compliance for preparedness, knowledge and skill training, etc). This leads to a basic cause (or personal factor) such as lack of knowledge, stress, inadequate capabilities. This in turn leads to an immediate cause (substandard conditions and actions) such as operating without authority, working under the influence of...
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...Introduction/ Plan of action: This is a safety and health at work assignment. I will examine the following: * noise and sound * Stress * diet, exercise and lifestyle * dangerous chemicals, fumes and dust * occupational related illness * manual handling I will also select one occupational illness (musculoskeletal disorder) in my vocational area. This is one of the most common work-related illnesses. I’m going to discuss what musculoskeletal disorder is. (Causes and symptoms) I will also discuss the impact of this illness and the preventative measures. My vocational area is multimedia. I would like to work as a movie editor in the future. This September I started a course called Multimedia production and Digital movie. I’m studying eight modules (graphic design, multimedia project management, multimedia authoring, web authoring, digital movie production, health and safety at work, communication and work experience.) Contents: Introduction/plan of action:...................................................................2 Noise and sound:.................................................................................4 Stress:................................................................................................ .6 Diet, exercise and lifestyle:..................................................................8 Dangerous chemicals, dust and fumes:..............................................10 Occupational...
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...P1. EXPLAIN POTENTIAL HAZARDS AND THE HARM THAT MAY ARISE FORMS EACH IN A HEALTH AND CARE SETTING. POSSIBLE HAZARDS IN A NURSERY. POSSIBLE HAZARDS IN A NURSERY. 1. SHARP EQUIPMENT’S IN A CLASSROOM. Sharp equipment in a nursery room can include; mark pens, pens, pencils, razors, broken toys etc. If they are left everywhere in the room unattended they can injury the children. Children can pierce each other with this equipment; also they can put them in their mouth and swallow them and end up chocking. The pen ink can leak out of the tube and the children can end up licking it or staining their clothes and even the class room. If the children pierce themselves or their friends in the sensitive organs e.g. eyes, nose, they can end up being blind or can spending their lives with a disability. What makes these kids even more at risk is because they are innocent and vulnerable. They don’t think what they are doing is wrong, that’s why there are supposed to be under supervision all the time and the environment they are in has to be clean and tidy. The effective way to use this sharp equipment is to ensure that the staffs are around to monitor the children at all times. 2. SLIPPERY FLOOR. Slippery floor is a floor that has water, glue or paint on it, or it can be just an ordinary floor that is made out of slippery material. It’s hard to see the wet floor because when you get closer to it.Differnt types of shoes trigger tripping e.g. if children wear shoes with...
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...the workers body had with the floor caused for their right lower leg to get injured. The awkward impact of the fall resulted in the direct cause of the injury as the worker suffered a broken right lower leg. 3 a) what section(s) of the Act (and what Regulation(s) if cited in your case) were violated? Please write out verbatim those section(s) of the Act and regulation(s). Act Part 3 – DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS AND OTHER PERSONS Section 25 (1)(c) – an employer shall ensure that, the measures and procedures prescribed are carried out in the workplace; Regulation Material Handling Section 45 (c)- Materials, articles or things, to be removed from a storage area, pile or rack, shall not be removed in a manner that will not endanger the safety of any worker. 3 b) What OTHER sections of the Act and Regulations COULD the company have been charged with in your case? Provide at least four (4). Write out these sections verbatim. You do not have to defend your choices. Act...
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...The study of occupational health and safety is primarily designed to educate and impart knowledge on maintaining a safe working environment so as to reduce the occurrences’ of accidents which might claim lives. This essay seeks to discuss the utility of the different types of safety inspections in maintaining a safe working environment. Safety workplace inspections are a planned walk- through of a workplace or selected areas or locations of a workplace. Inspections are needed to critically examine all factors including equipment, processes, materials, buildings and procedures that have the potential to cause injury or illness, and to identify where action is necessary to control hazards. Safety inspections include policies and procedures and the purpose of this policy is to control losses of human and material resources by identifying and correcting unsafe acts and conditions. The purpose of the safety inspection program is to detect and address safety-related hazards and risks before the issues cause injury, property damage or environmental impact According to Schemerhan, one of the type of safety inspection is the formal inspection or just general inspection. Formal inspections are well planned and are conducted in a proper manner following outlined and well stated channels to maintain a safe working environment. Focus at this type of safety inspection is on specific work stations or work area and the safety committee performs formal monthly safety tours .Each tour is performed...
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