Health and Safety Legislation implemented in a Workplace
The health and safety are to be considered most importantly in any workplace. The health and safety are to be maintained with the management and the workers. There will be ways to analyze the legislation that is implemented with the health care services. There will be laws, rules and procedures that will ensure the safety in the health and social care workplace. There will be certain responsibilities of the management to health and safety that will be in relation to the organizational structures. The organization should also properly understand the safety priorities.
1.1 Review of the system and policies and procedures in the health and social care in workplace
From the above-mentioned case, I think there should be a proper monitor of the records of accidents in the hospital floors that will reduce the slips that are being faced. There is already problem regarding the wet in the floor that causes the persons working there to fall.
The U.K. government will enforce the health and safety rules in legislation. They will give the relevant guidance on the safety issues on the workplace. The systems and the policies will include the safe maintenance in the floors. They will maintain the safe access in the workplace. The laws and policies will provide adequate training to staffs that can ensure the safety and health. They will also give the adequate welfare provisions for staff at work. There should be system policies, procedures in the communicating information on health and social care. The communication should be must that will assess all the responsibilities specific for the health care in that workplace (Tombs and Whyte 2013). The system of the communication will include the verbal, written and graphic. The legislation policies are included that will satisfy the communication with the people they include the following.
- The health and safety at work act
- Safety aid regulation
- Management of health and safety rules
- RIDDOR 1995
- COSHH 2002
- Regulations of Manual handling operations
- Food safety Act
I think the methods for communicating will include the use of the health and safety bulletin board, newsletters, management websites. These resources will be useful to discuss the health and safety issues to the workers. There should be committees that will discuss with the employees on the use of the safety measures that should be taken in their work and the usefulness of the first aid. The management will form meeting with the employees to discuss all the facts. I can say that the usefulness of the mopping system, limited use of fluid in the floors can be well explained to the employees only by communication.
Figure 1- the procedure steps in the implementation of the legislature in the health and safety. (Source – Hale, Borys and Adams 2015)
1.2 The responsibilities of the health and safety in the health and social care
Methods for communicating Health and Safety Policies and Procedures in the Workplace
I think the ones who are involved in the ensuring the safety in the work has many responsibilities that are required to be followed by them. The health safety commission is enrolled with the task of managing the employees with the terms of their safety in the work. The commission duties are to encourage other people to lead the secure and healthy working conditions. They should encourage research in the workplace on the safety of the workers (Reese 2015). The health executive will work in the saving of thousands of workers from injuries in work. I can say that this will aim at reducing the accidents and harm and thus decreasing their costs of health and improving their economic and social cost loss due to the accidents. They will also assist and encourage persons with the operation in the objectives related to the safety of the employees. I can suggest that the executives should further keep the secretary in the state informed of the plans and will look for the alignment in the policies of the secretary of the state. The members of the board and senior managers will address to take all the possible steps required for addressing any issues related to the benefits in safety of the workers. They should aim to reduce the turnover rates of the accidents and take legal issues. They will also increase the productivity of the employees for the better reputation of the corporate responsibility. They will try to keep the employees healthier. Since the production statistics fails due to the absence of the worker, the main task of the managers is to manage them in keeping them safe at their workplace. The next responsibility goes to the employees who are required to follow the rules and the ways in order to keep themselves safe, report of the accidents. They will have to report on the hazards and risks. According to my point of view, the risks in that workplace mentioned can be reduced if the rules are well communicated and the rules of safety are followed properly.
1.3 Analysis of health and safety priorities
I can say here that the safety measures should get priority according to the nature, environment and the risk factors in the working place. The risk control should be identified on the organizational decision making. The measures should be implemented on the basis of the priorities and the risk assessment. They will aim to reduce the public work related deaths. There should be proper survey of the situations that will show the cases and on the basis of priorities will develop safety rules. The priorities for safety can only be understood by measuring the health and safety activities. The proper study is required that will indulge in the improvements required in the actions that are to prioritise (Graber, Bailey and Johnston 2016).
Understanding the Ways of Health and Safety Requirements
There should be imperative ways to make arrangements with the effective plannings and control monitors that will make the reviews on the preventive and the risk assessment. The managers should take systemic monitoring and induce the help on the basis which is required by the workers to keep themselves safe. Lastly, they should well evaluate to see if the functions are satisfying the priorities. They can use the Gibbs reflective cycles to see if the health and safety needs are well in practiced. There should be effective plans in promoting the positive health culture in the workplace. The policies and the laws that are to be taken should satisfy all the priorities (Nielsen 2014).
2.1 Analysis of the risk assessment
In the case study of the growing population in U.K, I will have to understand the risk that may occur with the loss in the bariatric policy. The bariatric policy is required for the proper planning process, assessment of the manual handling of the risks associated with the staffs, provision of the appropriate equipment for the intra and inter agency communication (Morton, Garg, and Nguyen 2014). In the risk assessment there I see the half of the policies is not well considered. The ambulances of about 30% are without the ambulance space and 33% of the respondents report of the inaccessible areas in the buildings.
In the risk assessment, I can see that without the bariatric policy the increasing risk of the obese patients could not be maintained. The bariatric policies will look into the surgical procedures of the obese people. I should look into the proper assessment of the risks that can be associated with it. The bariatric policy will take care of the combination of the care of the whereabouts of the weight loss strategies the nutrition and food that they should take. I should also monitor the safety of the obese patients with regards to the risks that are ambulance space. The policy will guard the obese people in terms of safety.
To prevent the fall of an outcome of policies, I should see that there should be such a way that should prevent the fall of the patients. The places and areas should be well guarded and protected. The next thing is that the environment of the hospitals that should be very safe. The hospitals should be clean and full of air and ventilations (Bahr 2014).
2.2 The dilemmas encountered in relation to implementing the safety rules
How Information from Risk Assessments Informs Care Planning
There are many dilemmas associated with the procedures of the policies and the safety measures that are implemented. The major problem in the organizational setting for safety rules is that related to the communication of the plans that are adopted within the organization. They are attached with the hierarchical levels of the structure of the organization. Most of the people remain acquainted with the policies but do not know how to use it in proper ways (Van Cranenburgh and Arenas 2014). They are also not familiar with the importance of the health and safety policies. Sometimes the staffs behave carelessly and create troubles. Further the lack of receiving the right training on the basis of handling machinery or working in construction areas with the proper use of safety measures. This is also another factor that causes the dilemma in the implementation of the safety and security. The above mentioned reason is the most troublesome cause in the safety care setting (Brauer et al, 2015). The training is one of the most important things that will prevent the negative outcomes in the safety measures. The other aspect could be not the proper cleanliness in the health and social care sector. There could be the case of spreading bacteria. I should see if the dilemma related to the adoption of the special bariatric policies are taken in time without the hindrance of the troubles. With policies, I would follow all the process that includes the safety of the obese people and planning of the safety measures that is taken on the basis of the risks that are being faced by the obese people. The management of the manual handling risks includes the both intra and inter agency communication that will formulate the policy and remove the dilemmas (Razavi, Jaff, and Miller 2015).
With respect to the dilemmas faced on the regards of proper maintenance of the health and safety rules and regulations, there should be addressing of the issues with the requirement in the legal aspects that should be aligned with the organization. There should be well compatibility between the internal and external legal aspects. There should be legal steps taken to eradicate the lack of training in the workplace. The seminars, meetings and conferences should be taken in daily basis for the removal of all possible dilemmas. The best was to be done is the training sessions that should be held that will give all the practical knowledge and the safety measures would be well explained. The policies will also adopt certain rules that will increase the size of the ambulance for the patients and there be no specialist vehicles. The inaccessibility is to be removed without delay. I think the proper planning needs to be made (Hai-Jew 2014).
Impact of Health and Safety Policy on Health and Social Care Practice
2.3 Effects of non-compliance experience in relation to the health and safety legislation in the workplace
There are different reasons linked to the non-compliance of health and safety regulations in the hospitals. The legislations should have a crystal clear in the problems that are being faced. The major bad consequence is the inability of the proper explanation of the roles and rules to be used in the aspect of taking safety measures. The workers will not be able to understand and comprehend well if the rules are not properly explained to them. This is one of the striking factors related to the non-compliance. The care workers do not understand all the aspects of the rules that are helpful for their safety grounds and also belongs to their rights. The delay in task completion will lead to the consequence of the experience of the delay in making decisions. There will be many negative effects faced by the patients and will this lead to the loss of the integration of the organization. There could be chance of chaos and confusion scenario. There should not be any differences in the rules that are to be regulated among the workers.
I should see to the non-compliance that is the appropriate use of the rules that were formulated for the benefit of the obese people. The obese people need to be taken care with full safety. I should also see that the analysis of the bariatric policy is been made. The staffs there should be made clear on handling the patients there (Hale Borys and Adams 2015).
3.1 The explanation of the monitoring of the health and safety in the case study
From my point of view on the monitoring and review of the health and safety in the Surrey and health care trust is that there should be monitoring of the equipments that are used. I should see the quality of the equipments that are being used. As mentioned in the study that there are issues of the compatibility in the equipments. The monitoring should be made with the issues regarding the compatibility of the equipment (Shea et al 2016). The cases show of the overspent of the money in the dynamic mattress. The monitoring should be made with the occurrence of the mentioned problems. The review should be made in such a way that will affect the measure taking for increasing the quality of the above mentioned issues and see the problems are not recurring. I should see if the groups are formed that will specify the performances of the equipment’s that are being used. There should be an immediate replacement of the faulty equipments with the right ones (Connor et al 2014). I should see if the equipments are well maintained and used. The groups that are formed will explain the trail of the equipments and will specify the tendors regarding the use of the equipments. Thus we should monitor and see the underlying cause of the problems. Sufficient reporting should be done. I should also see that there is investigation in the above- mentioned problems being faced. I should also the reporting is carried out properly. Thus preventive measures could be easily followed with this (Neuhaus, et al 2014).
3.2 The analysis of the effectiveness of the health safety policies.
Addressing Dilemmas Encountered in Implementing Systems and Policies for Health, Safety and Security
In the section of analysis of the effectiveness of the health and safety measures, we should examine to see if the sufficient reporting is being carried out. There should be preventive measures taken in carrying out and they should give the right informations (Dunn 2015). They will see to the proper training with the equipments that are being used. Proper use of the equipment is must in the safety places. They should be doing routine investigations of the issues and the problems above being faced. There they will see to the audit of the risk control equipments. The audit indicates the pressure ulcers that have the incidence rate of 11%. In the group formed we will specify the uses of the critical use of the equipments. We should properly examine the damaged equipments and try to remove the faulty ones with the repaired ones within 4 hours. We should keep track of the continuous changes in the procedures and we should adhere to the consequent changes that are to be made with the emergence of any problem. There should be drawing of the tender specification (Balas et al, 2014). The critical indicators need to be introduced in time. The overall critical equipments should be changed within 2 hours. There should be 6 month time duration in the change in the mattress with annual equipment audits. There should be monthly breakdown and maintenance of the reports. We will look into to get the review of the maintenance of the safety rules that are to be followed in line. We should see if there is risk management team that will take steps in the case of critical problems. We could see that the trust has been successful to bring about 500 EPBs plus mattresses. There we have seen the bringing of the chairs and tables extras to keep the comfortable environment.I think there has been well changes related to the 69% saving in the nursing time. The money that was bought was not cost effective but it did fulfill some of the goals of the nursing care.
3.3 Evaluation of the safety needs
Next the most important step is that I have to evaluate and see if the safety measures are been taken in time and properly in the workplace. I will evaluate to see if the equipments are replaced in the time above mentioned. The training groups are to be evaluated so that the process of the safety work goes in time (Kullar et al 2013). I should also see that the training in that workplace goes in time and well explains the use of the critical equipments. The bad conditioned mattresses and the faulty equipments should be removed. There I should see that there is proper cost that can take changes in the overall quality in the workplace (Shin, et al, 2014). Thus I should evaluate to see the substantial care in the improvements that is to be placed with the safety audit. Proper evaluation of the validity of the safety is what I should look. Next is the key elements is that I should properly evaluate the cases related to the safety interventions of the nurses. The cases related to the assessment in the best monitoring of the pressure ulcer incidence and see if the rate has fallen (Shekelle et al 2013). The evaluation will thus help in the formation of the structure and new thinking that can be used as the appropriate method to improve the quality and then evaluate the framework of the changes. The medicines should be evaluated, if that is given on time. Portfolios of datas I should maintain after the evaluation that will reproduce the changes required in the quality improvements. The main goal in the evaluation is that I should see if the goal taken in the above cases is reached properly without any problem. There I should see if the rates of the occurrence of the muscoskeletal injuries and the pressure ulcer. The rate of the failure of the occurrence is what that I need to evaluate (Goetzel et al 2014).
Effects of Non-Compliance with Health and Safety Legislation
Conclusion
The health and safety are the most important aspect in any workplace ranging from any working organization to hospital. The policy is the statement section that is made of all the laws that will protect the safety of the staffs or the patients. The arrangements and the laws need to be understood to the people working through good communication. The legislations and laws should be strong enough. There should be good access of the policies that are to be taken. Evaluation of the risks and the policies are to be performed in order that is also another important element in the molecule of the maintenance of the safety measures.
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