Unit 306- Safe working in health care Flashcards
What is heath and Safety
procedures intended to prevent accident or injury in workplaces or public environments.
Key terms unit 306: define them
- guideline
- Legislation
- Regulations
- Liability
- Diagnosis
- Care Quality Commission:(CQC)
- Codes of Practice; (cop)
- guideline:
a statement of a policy or procedure to follow regulations - Legislation:
a law or group of laws - Regulations:
a principle, rule or law designed to control behaviour - Liability:
taking responsibility for something - Diagnosis:
the medical condition a person has - Care Quality Commission: the independent regulator of health and social care services in England
- Codes of Practice:
A detailed guidance or rules in the workplace
What is a risk?
a Likelihood of an injury happening
What is a Hazard
Damage of harm arising
What is Harm?
An injury or damage caused
What is a policy?
Policies are rules, principles, guidelines of action
What is a procedure?
A way of doing something
What is a Risk Assessment?
To anticipate danger of a hazard and to make a plan to reduce the risk of that hazard causing harm
What is HASAWA? what do the employers do
Stands for Health And Safety At Work Act 1974.
Employers:
- carry out a thorough risk assessment before opening for business and updated regularly
- keeping records of all accidents and incidents
- provide safety equipment, written health and safety information and training
- ensure that there is health and safety policy written for the setting and appointed to someone responsible for health and safety
What do the Employees do according to HASAWA ?
Health And Safety At Work Act
Employees:
- take reasonable care of your own and other people’s health and safety
- not deliberately do anything that could jeopardise someone else’s health or safety
Name Some regulations under HASAWA 1974
- Manual handling operations regulations 1992
- COSSH:
Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 1992 - RIDDOR:
reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 1995 - MHSWR:
the management of health and safety at work regulations - Data protection act 1998
- Fire Precautions (workplace) regulations 1997
- Food Safety act 1990
What is manual handling?
It’s a piece of health and safety legislation that affects both employers and employees . It was passed into law in 1992 and
was amended in 2002.
making sure that the work place is risk free, before doing any manual labor make sure to make a risk assessment.
plan
Key points of Manual handling
- Take steps to reduce the risk of injury during those operations that cannot be avoided
- Use lifting aids when people cannot move independently or when moving heavy objects
- Plan every lift to be as safe as possible
- Avoid lifting from the floor- this may or will cause back problems
- Keep the load close to your body
- Avoid twisting your body while carrying heavy loads
- Have a colleague help if the load is too heavy
- avoid repetitive lifts
What is Riddor?
Reporting id injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 2013
RIDDOR is the law that requires employers, and other people in charge of work premises, to report and keep records of:
- work-related accidents which cause deaths
- work-related accidents which cause certain serious injuries (reportable injuries)
- diagnosed cases of certain industrial
diseases. - certain ‘dangerous occurrences’ (incidents with the potential to cause harm)
- an incident leading to someone being absent from work for three or more days
Who doe RIDDOR apply to?
RIDDOR applies to every workplace and puts duties
on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the ‘Responsible Person’)
- to report and keep records of: work-related accidents which cause death; work-related
accidents which cause certain serious injuries (reportable injuries)
- diagnosed cases of certain industrial diseases; and
certain ‘dangerous occurrences’ (incidents with the potential to cause harm)
- dangerous incidents that caused harm
- an incident leading to someone being absent from work for three or more days
What is COSSH? what requires employers to do?
COSSH is what requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health.
- Assess the risks posed by hazardous substances such a body fluids and sharps
- Devise procedures to prevent or control exposure to hazardous substances
- Ensure the procedures are followed properly
- Ensure health surveillance is carried out if employees to harmful substances in their work, to identify early signs
of disease - Prepare plans to deal with accidents, incidents and emergencies
- Ensure the staff are adequately trained to deal with things and supervised.
What is a subtances hazardous to health COSHH?
- chemicals
- fumes
- dusts
- vapours
- mists
- nanotechnology
- gases
- biological agents (germs)
- germs that cause disease
- Products containing chemicals
What is MHSWR?
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
It requires employers to carry out risk assessment , make arrangements to implement necessary measures appoint people to make appropriate information and training.
What do Employers need to do under the MHSWR?
- Provide a safe workplace
- Provide safe equipment
- Ensure staff are properly trained
- Carry risk assessments
- Provide proper facilities
- Provide a person to oversee health and safety
- Report any shortcomings in health & safety arrangements
- Report any dangerous situations
- Use equipment in accordance with training and instruction
- Take reasonable care of their own health & safety and those of others who may be
affected by their acts or omissions
What is the Food safety act 1990?
Gives powers to environmental health inspectors to inspect food and seize food unfit for human consumption. a notice of improvements.
Also powers to Shut down the place.
What is DPA 1998? what is its key features?
Data protection act 1998
The DPA 1998- relates to personal information held in paper and electronic format.
- information of the individual should be relevant and not excessive.
- Information should be obtained for lawful reasons and be accurate and current.
- Information should not be held for longer than necessary.
- information should be protected against unauthorised access and accidental destruction.
individual’s diagnosis is highly confidential and is only to be told if they are an authorised person;
information should never be disclose to an unauthorised person such as a member if your family.
Even a person has died, their information cannot be destroyed.
why do we need risk assessment? what are the 5 steps to risk assessments?
to protect ourselves and others from possible bad event from happening.
steps to risk assessments: 1- identify the hazards 2- decide who might be harmed and how 3- evaluate the risk and take actions to prevent them 4- record your findings 5- review the risk assessment
Describe methods of reducing health and hygiene risk to themselves
- using PPE (personal protective equipment)
- wearing uniforms
- not wearing jewellry
- ensuring own clothing is clean and appropriate
- using appropriate hair protectors in certain setting or for specific tasks eg.beards, head hair
- taking time off work if they are not well and if there is a risk they could spread infection to those
being cared for
How can fires starts? How can it be prevented?
start of fires: - smoking - candles - cooking How can they be prevented from spreading? - electrical checks - regular fire drills - fire alarm testing - use of fire wardens - fire extinguishers - fire blankets
Routes of pathogens which cab enter the body to cause infection
- inhalation eg covid
- ingestion eg salmonella
- breaks in skin eg. hepatitis b
- contact with the skin eg. Scabies
