Unit 3 Health, Safety and Security in Health and Social Care LO1

Question 1

What does this unit cover?

Answer 1

Creating settings that provide protection from danger, risk or injury and provide a sense of safety to deliver high quality, safe and effective care.

Question 2

What is a hazard?

Answer 2

Anything with the potential to cause harm e.g. soiled bedding.

Question 3

What is a risk?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Types of hazards

Answer 4

Health hazards
Safety hazards
Security hazards

Question 5

What is a health hazard?

Answer 5

An incident or event leading to illness.

Question 6

What is a safety hazard?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is a security hazard?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Types of settings

Answer 8

Health- hospital
Care- residential care home
Childcare environment- nursery or school
Public- shopping centre or park
Transport- minibus, ambulance

Question 9

Care setting hazards

Answer 9

Environmental- wet floors
Biological- bodily fluids
Chemical- unlabelled cleaning fluid
Psychological- stress, tiredness
Physical- noise or radiation
Musculoskeletal- manual handling
Working conditions- poor lighting, cold
Working practices- long hours, lack of training
Lack of security- faulty smoke alarms

Question 10

How hazards can impact on individuals

Answer 10

Injury or harm
Illness
Poor standards of care
Financial loss

Question 11

Types of harm and abuse

Answer 11

Physical- hitting, biting
Sexual- unwanted contact
Emotional and psychological- verbal abuse
Financial exploitation- withholding or taking money
Neglect- not meeting needs

Question 12

Harm and abuse

Answer 12

Can occur unintentionally.
Generally as a result of poor care.
Care practitioners not following infection control procedures and therefore infecting their service users.
Roughly moving a service user in bed causing them to be bruised.
Harm and abuse can happen to care practitioners at the hands of the individuals that they are trying to help and support.

Question 13

Reasons why harm and abuse may occur

Answer 13

Isolation of carer
Lack of carer training
Carers are too stressed
Resentment towards a vulnerable person
Prejudice and hostility
Financial dependency
Inadequate level of carer support
Failure to monitor caregivers

Question 14

Harm and abuse case studies

Answer 14

High profile cases of child abuse- Victoria Climbie, Baby P

Panorama

Question 15

Biological

Answer 15

Dealing with bodily fluids means that they are at risk of developing infections.

Question 16

Musculoskeletal

Answer 16

Risk from lifting and moving patients as a considerable number of staff develop bad backs or have injuries.

Question 17

Short term effects of abuse

Answer 17

Bruise, cuts, broken bones
Pregnancy or STI
Lack of confidence and poor self-esteem
Challenging or needy behaviour
Depression, anxiety or loneliness
Guilt, fear, blame.

Question 18

Long term effects of abuse

Answer 18

Low self-esteem
Mental health issues such as depression, self-harm or suicidal thoughts/attempts
Inability to sleep, angry, upset.
Anorexia or obesity, high stress levels
Inability to form relationships and trust others.
Addictions such as alcohol or drugs.