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Question 1

What is a hazard?

Answer 1

A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm e.g soiled bedding.

Question 2

What is a risk?

Answer 2

Then chance of harm occurring e.g getting an infection from the bedding.

Question 3

what are health hazards?

Answer 3

An incident or event leading to illness.

Question 4

What are safety hazards?

Answer 4

incidents leading to personal injury or damage to equipment or premises.

Question 5

What are security hazards?

Answer 5

Intruders, theft of property or information, kidnapping of individuals or individuals leaving without consent or supervision

Question 6

what are types of settings?

Answer 6

Health-e.g hospital GP surgery
Care- e.g residential care home and individual home
Childcare environment- e.g nursery or school
Public- e.g shopping centre or park
Transport- e.g minibus, ambulance

Question 7

what are potential health hazards?

Answer 7

Health- e.g Medication needs to be kept locked away as could be dangerous if given to the wrong person.

Question 8

What are potential care home hazards?

Answer 8

E.g hoists could be a hazard as an individual should be trained on how to use them effectively to move service users safely.

Question 9

what are potential childcare hazards?

Answer 9

E.g toys should be tidied away as they could cause a trip hazard,

Question 10

what are potential public hazards?

Answer 10

A park should have secure fencing so that children cannot run away onto busy roads.

Question 11

What are potential transport hazards?

Answer 11

E.g A vehicle should be road worthy otherwise it could cause an accident.

Question 12

Name a care setting hazard?

Answer 12

Environmental- Wet floors, uneven surfaces

Biological- Bodily fluids, waste

Question 13

Name a care setting hazard?

Answer 13

Chemical- unlabelled, cleaning fluid, hot oil

Psychological- stress, tiredness

Question 14

Name a care setting hazard?

Answer 14

Physical- Noise or radiation

Musculoskeletal- Manual handling

Question 15

Name a care setting hazard?

Answer 15

Working conditions- poor lighting, cold
Working practices- long hours, lack of training
Lack of security- Faulty smoke alarms, broken locks.

Question 16

Name a care setting hazard?

Answer 16

Lack of security- Faulty smoke alarms, broken locks. Hazards are all around you, but carefully managed they will do no harm- settings complete a risk assessment where they look at the hazards, the potential risk and then implement ways in which to minimise them.

Question 17

How do hazards impact an individual? - injuries or harm

Answer 17

Faulty equipment could cause individuals to be hurt as there could be an electrical shortage and give an individual an electric shock.

Question 18

How do hazard impact an individual?- illness

Answer 18

If kitchen where food is prepared is dirty then harmful bacteria may get into food and make individuals sick e.g Food poisoning.

Question 19

How do hazard impact an individual?- poor standards of care

Answer 19

If staff in care home are not trained probably and cant offer the best standard of care to service users they may feel vulnerable and lack trust in the care home staff.

Question 20

How can hazards impact an individual? Financial Loss

Answer 20

If there are a lack of locks on door then intruders could enter the setting and steal service users belongings.

Question 21

Types of harm and abuse?

Answer 21

Physical- Hitting, Biting
Sexual- unwanted contact
Emotional and psychological- Verbal abuse
Financial exploitation- withholding or taking money
Neglect- not meeting needs

Question 22

How may harm and abuse occur unintentionally?

Answer 22

Result of poor care such as care practitioners not following infection control procedures and therefore infecting their service users, or roughly moving a service user in bed causing them to be bruised.

Question 23

what is intentional harm and abuse?

Answer 23

The individual intends to inflict pain on another person or cause them harm.

Question 24

Why may harm and abuse occur?

Answer 24

harm and abuse may occur because carers are too stressed, lack of carer training, failure to monitor caregivers, financial dependency, prejudice an hostility, inadequate level of carer support.

Question 25

Name another reason harm and abuse may occur?

Answer 25

This may be because the care practitioners are also at risk through their working practices eg.harm from: Biological dealing with bodily fluids they are at risk of developing a infection.

Question 26

what is a musculoskeletal way of an individual getting harm and abuse?

Answer 26

Risk from lifting and moving patients as a considerable number of staff developed bad backs and have injuries. This may be unintentional exposure to harm e.g failing to explain a physical procedure.

Question 27

Types of abuse and consequence?

Answer 27

-unintentionally exposure to harm by, for example; failing to explain a physical procedure (e.g lifting)
- Not demonstrating or supervising a task probably ( e.g chopping food)
- failing to check the temperature of bath water.
Consequences- physical injury as a result of falling, cutting or scalding skin.

Question 28

Name another agent of harm or abuse?

Answer 28

Failure to follow infection control procedures e.g using unsterilized needles, or not washing hands correctly.
consequences- an individual may acquire an infection such as HIV or hepatitis B.

Question 29

Name another agent of harm and abuse and its consequence?

Answer 29

Being verbally hostile towards or critical of an individual.
Consequence- psychological distress such as loss of self-esteem, loss of self- confidence, feeling anxious or upset.

Question 30

Examples of long and short term abuse?

Answer 30

Short term- Bruise, cuts, Broken bones
Long term- Low self-esteem
Short term- pregnancy or STI
Long term- Mental health issues such as depression, self harm or suicidal thoughts/ attempts.

Question 31

Examples of long and short term abuse?

Answer 31

Short term- lack of confidence and poor self-esteem

Long term- inability to sleep, angry, upset.