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Question 1

What is a role?

Answer 1

The position or purpose someone has in a situation/organisation e.g. job

Question 2

What is a responsibility?

Answer 2

The specific duties a person is required to carry out to fulfill their role e.g. a procedure

Question 3

What is the role of employers?

Answer 3

Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and provide a safe place to work (training and safety equipment)

Question 4

What is the role of the NHS?

Answer 4

Provide secure environments that are healthy to work in and visit and must provide training and supervision to carry out work safely

Question 5

What are the 2 roles of local authority?

Answer 5

1) Promote health and safety- Provide guidance, information about roles and responsibilities, and raise awareness of health and safety in different settings.
2) Enforce health and safety standards- Carry out inspections and make recommendations for improvements and if standards aren’t met, they can re-inspect

Question 6

What is the role of a care manager?

Answer 6

Develop, review and update policies for health and safety and ensure accidents are properly recorded under RIDDOR

Question 7

What is the role of headteachers and governors?

Answer 7

Ensure safeguarding to protect the welfare of staff, students, visitors and all activities are halthy and safe

Question 8

What is the role of charitable organisations?

Answer 8

Safeguarding and promoting health and safety for their employees and those who require support e.g Mencap and childline

Question 9

What is the role of employees?

Answer 9

Use safe working practices to maintain the safety of themselves and others, attend training and report any hazards/accidents

Question 10

What is the role of the service users?

Answer 10

Follow health and safety instructions provided e.g wet floor signs and ‘no smoking’

Question 11

What are 3 ways employers can promote health and safety policies?

Answer 11

• Ensuring relevant health and safety policies are in place
• Ensuring all staff are aware of their responsibilities stated in policies
• Ensuring health and safety training is provided

Question 12

What are 3 ways employers can maintain health and safety policies?

Answer 12

• Keeping up to date with legislation
• Policies updated regularly
• Inductions for new staff

Question 13

What are 3 ways employers can enforce health and safety policies?

Answer 13

• Regular fire drill practices
• Ongoing supervision and training
• Implementing disciplinary procedures when required

Question 14

What are 3 ways that employees must use equipment or substances?

Answer 14

-Only used in accordance to training
- Taking care of themselves and people around them
- Not miss-using equipment

Question 15

What are 2 ways that employees must report serious danger?

Answer 15

• Immediately reporting hazards
• Implementing safeguarding procedures

Question 16

Whats one way that employees must report shortcomings?

Answer 16

Report shortcomings in health and safety procedures

Question 17

What are 3 ways that service users can understand health and safety policies?

Answer 17

• Participating in fire drills
• Reporting hazards
• Cooperating with safety instructions and risk assessments

Question 18

What DC is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 18

Direct costs- Financial implications for the setting e.g. being sued, legal costs and fines

Question 19

What IC is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 19

Indirect costs- Poor reputation leading to difficulty recruiting staff and loss of trust from employees and service users

Question 20

What DA is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 20

Disiplinary action- Disiplinary procedures based on the situation e.g warnings and dismissals
May also have increased monitoring (ofsted) and training

Question 21

What PC&C is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 21

Prosecutions criminal & civil- Prosecution for breaching and negligence if death or serious injury occurs e.g winterbourne

Question 22

What RFPR is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 22

Removal from professional registers- nurses and teachers etc are registered to a professional organisation and can be ‘struck off’ if they aren’t fit for the role (they are violent, dishonest or break regulations etc)

Question 23

What CI/H is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 23

Causing injury/harm- Employers, employees and service users can cause harm to themselves if health and safety isn’t followed and employees must be trained properly to work safely

Question 24

What BI/H is a consequence for not meeting responsibilities?

Answer 24

Being injured/harmed- broken bones, food poisoning and infections etc towards residents, staff and visitors caused by poor standards of care like neglect and abuse

Question 25

What can removal from professional registers involve?

Answer 25

Being ‘struck off’
Practice being restricted
Loss of professional status and reputation