2.1: Legislation Flashcards
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What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?
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- Established the Health and Safety Executive as the regulator for health, safety and welfare
- Established the key duties and responsibilities of employers and employees
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What is the Food Safety Act 1990?
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- Maintenance of good personal hygiene
- Keep records with food for tracking
- Remove unsafe food and complete incident reports
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What is the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992?
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- Employers avoid hazardous manual handling tasks where possible
- Eliminate/reduce risks associated with manual handling tasks
- Employers provide information, training and supervision about safe moving and handling
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What is the Food Safety Regulations 1995?
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- Amended in 1999 and 2004
- Identification of food safety hazards
- Food safety controls in place, maintained and reviewed
- Good condition of food environments for prepping and cooking (clean)
- Prevent cross-contamination by preparing raw meat and ready-to-eat products on separate chopping boards
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What is the Data Protection Act 1998?
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- Protects security of personal information
- Information kept up-to-date and accurate
- Information kept secure
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What is the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999?
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- Duty of employers to carry out and implement risk assessments for health, safety and security of employees and other inhabitants
- Work settings required to have arrangements in place (procedures for emergency situations)
- Employers required to provide information, training and supervision
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What is the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002?
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- Employers required to carry out risk assessments for the prevention of control of exposure to hazardous substances
- Employers required to have procedures for safe working with hazardous substances
- Employers required to provide information, training and supervision for safe working
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What is the Civil Contingencies Act 2004?
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- How organizations work together to plan and respond to local and national emergencies
- How organizations (emergency services, local authorities and health bodies) can work together and share information
- Requires risk assessments to be undertaken and emergency plans put in place
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What is the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013?
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- Employers are required to keep and report records of three years of work related incidents
- Procedures are in place for reporting injuries, diseases and incidents
- Employers are required to provide information and training on reporting injuries, diseases and incidents
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What is the Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015?
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- Health and Adult Social Care providers must share information about a person’s care with other health and care providers
- Health and Adult Social Care organizations required to use consistent identifier when sharing information about a person’s care
- Reduction of risk of harm and abuse by making provision for removing people convicted of certain offences from the registers kept by the regulatory bodies for health and social care professions.
