C and D criteria, distinction level table format
Disclaimer: I received a distinction for these in 2019, if you don’t believe that this is worth a distinction I cannot help, however the qualified teachers believed they were.
Unit 7 Principles of Safe Practice in Health and Social Care
Assignment two – Keeping People Safe [Type here]
Outline Health and Explain how different Analyse how health and Explain the health and Analyse how individual
Safety legislation used in procedures maintain safety legislation or safety responsibilities responsibilities and health,
the UK. health and safety in a policies influence safe of employers, safety and emergency
D.P6 selected health or practice in a selected employees and others procedures contribute to safe
social care setting. health or social care in a selected health or practice in a selected health or
D.P7 setting. social care setting. social care setting. D.M4
D.M3 D.P8
Procedures
Health and Safety Work In my work setting This influences safe In my work setting Different people have roles as
ACT (1974) different procedures practice in my work setting everyone has a this ensures that they all done, if
Employers must ensure such as ensuring that as it decreases the risk of responsibility to report this was on one person then this
they protect the ‘health, visitors sign in and being injured due to any health and safety may be difficult to do in the busy
safety and welfare’ at work wear a visitors badge, wearing PPE, such as if concerns, the environment, although everyone
of all their employees, this ensuring that daily you were bit the PPE is maintenance staff have a contributes to ensure that there is
includes temporary staff, checks are done to made to be bite proof and duty to fix this as soon as safe practice. Emergency
casual workers, self- ensure that if there is therefore it would not they can and the procedures such as fire alarms
employed, clients, visitors any damage or puncture the skin. By employer has a duty to are tested every week by
and the general public. A anything that is not ensuring the daily checks ensure that this is done maintenance staff and everyone
written safety policy must working is reported to are done to the building it and fixed. leaves the building to practice
be in place and employees the maintenance staff lowers the risk of any this, some patients go to the front
must be educated on this. and completed, at my damage worsening as this of the building and some go to
Appointed people to work setting we have a can be repaired as soon as the garden area due to the risk
oversee workplace health health and safety possible. which has been risk assessed.
and safety. Risk officer who does the There are also risk assessments
assessments must be health and safety for if the patient chooses to stay
carried out and risks policies and also does in their room, staff are to leave
reduced. Employees must risk assessments them and put the door alarm on
be sufficiently trained to frequently to ensure and when firemen arrive to inform
ensure their health and that there are no new them of where they are. This is
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