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Unit 306- Safe working in health care Flashcards

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What is heath and Safety

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procedures intended to prevent accident or injury in workplaces or public environments.

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Key terms unit 306: define them

  • guideline
  • Legislation
  • Regulations
  • Liability
  • Diagnosis
  • Care Quality Commission:(CQC)
  • Codes of Practice; (cop)
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  • 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
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What is a risk?

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a Likelihood of an injury happening

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What is a Hazard

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Damage of harm arising

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What is Harm?

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An injury or damage caused

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What is a policy?

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Policies are rules, principles, guidelines of action

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What is a procedure?

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A way of doing something

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What is a Risk Assessment?

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To anticipate danger of a hazard and to make a plan to reduce the risk of that hazard causing harm

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What is HASAWA? what do the employers do

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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
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What do the Employees do according to HASAWA ?

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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

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Name Some regulations under HASAWA 1974

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  • 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
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What is manual handling?

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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

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Key points of Manual handling

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  • 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
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What is Riddor?

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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
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Who doe RIDDOR apply to?

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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

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What is COSSH? what requires employers to do?

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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.
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What is a subtances hazardous to health COSHH?

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  • chemicals
  • fumes
  • dusts
  • vapours
  • mists
  • nanotechnology
  • gases
  • biological agents (germs)
  • germs that cause disease
  • Products containing chemicals
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What is MHSWR?

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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.

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What do Employers need to do under the MHSWR?

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  • 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
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What is the Food safety act 1990?

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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.

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What is DPA 1998? what is its key features?

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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.

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why do we need risk assessment? what are the 5 steps to risk assessments?

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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
23
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Describe methods of reducing health and hygiene risk to themselves

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  • 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
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How can fires starts? How can it be prevented?

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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
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Routes of pathogens which cab enter the body to cause infection

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  • inhalation eg covid
  • ingestion eg salmonella
  • breaks in skin eg. hepatitis b
  • contact with the skin eg. Scabies

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