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health and safety at work
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- Health and Social Care
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- Westminster Kingsway College (WKC)
Essay of 3 pages for the course Health and Social Care at WKC
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A2 safe working-task 1 legislation P2Health and safety at work Act
It’s important that the health and safety legislation will help protect people from injury or
potential hazards. It is the manager’s responsibility to make sure that the workers know the
health and safely. For example, the care manage tells the care workers how to be able to
work in a safe environment and would show information about health and safety rules. This
is important in the health and social care setting is so that they cooperate with their
employer about health and safety issues.
Management of health, and safety and work regulations
This regulation covers the way the duties are managed in legislation as the health and safety
at work etc Act at workplace.
Manual handling operations regulations
Workers have the responsibility to plan out how they are going to lift someone or an object,
wear suitable clothe, get more than one person to help lift someone or something up and
should do training on manual handling for health and safety reasons. It important that thing
and people are being handled safely so that they don't cause any injuries by poor lifting. For
example if someone had an accident, the doctors have to find the way of lifting the patient
up safely. Also they would make sure that the patient is in a right position. They should also
practice how to handle heavy object before lifting it for real.
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