PWCS:37 Understand health and safety in social care settings 1.Understand the different responsibilities relating to health and safety in social care settings 1.1 Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting. ● Health and safety at work act 1974, often referred to as HASAW or HSW.This is the main piece of UK health and safety legislation, under this act the employer, the employee and the individuals being supported have responsibilities to ensure safety is maintained within the setting
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Safety is the state of being "safe" (from French sauf), the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be considered non-desirable. Safety can also be defined to be the control of recognized hazards to achieve an acceptable level of risk. This can take the form of being protected from the event or
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Front office and guest safety and security Security Issues ---------------------- Security encompasses areas such as security of the property itself, company assets, employees' and customers' personal belongings and valuables, life security, personal security etc. In all workplaces management stipulates that it is not responsible for valuables and employees personal belongings (their handbags, items kept in the personal lockers, etc.). Yet management must take all possible measures to
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legal acts relating to the general health and safety in social care. The most important one it seems to me would the health and safety at work act of 1974, it ensures that the employer, the employee have responsibilities to ensure that a good level of safety is attained in the workplace, and there should be a copy of this act on the works premises for use of any employee or service user. The legislations key goals are: * To ensure the health, safety and welfare of people at work * To protect
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Unit 4 Keeping children safe Health & safety at work Act 1974 Employers must ensure that the workplace is a safe environment and that posters are in and around the setting to promote this, also they must ensure that all staff members are made aware of this law and given essential information on this. The health and safety policy will be discussed in a staff meeting where they can be written up as a policy in the setting. All staff must follow this policy and work effectively
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hypercompetitive in nature and only those organizations survive in this era those have some form of competitive advantage. People or human resource is considered to be one of the main sources of achieving competitive advantage in this age. Considering the importance of human resource in organizations, many organizations these days are promoting and practicing best HR practices. In the study, CIMB and Microsoft have been found to promote and practice many notable HR practices. Since our company “CARA SKY” has
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BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF CENTRAL SECTION OF BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY A Thesis Presented to the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering College of Engineering BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfilment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering By Pinpin, Jerome Garcia July 2014 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study In the world of today, a major change in technology can be seen as an
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treatment, or change condition is critical. Without clear communication and collaboration, many negative consequences can occur, including putting the patient’s safety at risk. For my clinical experience I shadowed the Occupation Therapy and Physical Therapy Department. These discipline emphases on rehabilitating patients so they can return home after being discharged from the hospital. They also with work with those in long term care units, to help prevent the individual’s current status from progressing
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a Nigerian company to transport Nigerian pilgrims in and out of Mecca. The DC- 8 caught fire during take-off from Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Pilots noticed problems during early stages of take-off and only made it 671 meters in elevation before attempting to turn around for a emergency landing. It was too late; the under inflated tires had overheated began to catch fire. The fire grew and blew out the hydraulics which made the emergency landing impossible. This was the
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