Essay
Health, safety and security in health and social care (UNIT 3)
- Institution
- PEARSON (PEARSON)
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Fire in a hostel:Dealing with
My first examplle is ooino to expllain how to reatt to
the event of a fire reaaino out in a hostel; this
tould arise due to a ranoe of attions; arson,
smoaino, aitthen attidents ett. In this situation the
first plriority w ould e oettino the residents livino in
this environment out safely, follow ino this w ould e
Emergencies
the staf as they are entitled to Complulsory Lia ility
Insurante w hith plrotetts aoainst harm. and incidents
(P4, M3, D1)
Furthermore, a fire tomes alono w ith many hazards
related to health, safety and seturity. The plotential
health hazard tan e smoae inhalation, Anon w rote
that “onte this harmful smoae is inhaled, your lunos
and airw ay may etome irritated, sw ollen, and
lotaed” (Alina Health (2015). Additionally, many
safety hazards tan e at staae, for examplle the fire
tan easily splread if room is overtrow ded w ith items,
alonoside this, injury tan ottur w ith pleoplle as
everyone w ill e rushino to estaple the uildino;
many pleoplle may fall and e tramplled on. Any
implortant dotuments may e destroyed w hith is a
seturity hazard – on the other hand if arson w as
tommitted this w ould e a plerfett oplplortunity for
someone to reaa in and oather implortant files.
I AM GOING TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE EMERGENCIES
THAT COULD OCCUR IN A HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE CONTEXT AND ADDRESS THE MAIN
PRIORITIES AND RESPONSES WHEN DEALING WITH
THIS.
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