Types of Abuse and Types of Hazards

Question 1

What are the types of environmental hazards?

Answer 1

Spillages, objects around the room, hard floors, frayed carpet, trip or slip hazards

Question 2

What are the types of biological Hazards?

Answer 2

Spread of infection through bacteria or bodily fluids.

Question 3

What are the types of chemical hazards?

Answer 3

Cleaning agents may be mistaken for other liquids if not supervised. unsupervised medication can be ingested and be dangerous. Spillage of chemicals may also cause damage.

Question 4

What are the types of psychological Hazards?

Answer 4

Types of stress caused from high stress situations such as work and abuse. Could be mentally tired from high workload.

Question 5

What are the types of poor working conditions?

Answer 5

disruptive noises, irregular temperatures in environments, long distance travels, poor lighting, dirtiness or messy environment.

Question 6

What are the types of poor working practices?

Answer 6

Lack of training for care or certain procedures, long working hours or lack of supervision for new volunteers.

Question 7

What hazards come from lack of security systems?

Answer 7

broken CCTV, broken fire alarms, broken security gate, broken fire doors.

Question 8

What are the types of abuse?

Answer 8

Intentional Abuse is abuse that is intentionally done to hurt someone emotionally, physically or financially e.g. insults, physical abuse and stealing money. Unintentional Abuse is abuse that is not meant to intentionally hurt a person and may be accidental or due to poor working practices.

Question 9

What are the effects of abuse?

Answer 9

1) physical injury
2) contracting sexual diseases
3)low self esteem
4) poor self image
5) displaying challenging or needy behaviour
6) negative emotions
7) difficulties with relationships
8) difficulties with addictions