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Health, safety and security in health and social care
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OCR Level 3 CambridgeTechnicals
Unit 3 – Health, Safety and
Security in Health and Social
Care
LO1 Work Booklet
,NAME: ___________________________
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
LO1 – Understand potential hazards in health, social care and
childcare environments.
LO2 – Understand how legislation, policies and procedures promote
health, safety and security in health, social care and childcare
environments.
LO3 – Understand the roles and responsibilities involved in health,
safety and security in health, social care and childcare environments.
LO4 – Know how to respond to incidents and emergencies in a
health, social care or childcare environment.
Unit Aim:
● What does it mean to be ‘safe’? Safety and being
safe is a basic human need.
● All individuals have a right to work in a safe
environment and all individuals who require care or
support also have a right to be safe in health and
social care contexts.
● There are responsibilities that practitioners must
actively promote in order to provide and maintain a
safe environment for colleagues and individuals who
require care and support.
, ✔ You will acquire the necessary knowledge and
skills to equip you in maintaining a safe working
environment for yourself, your colleagues and
individuals who require care and support.
✔ You will learn how legislation, policies and
procedures work to reduce risks in health and
social care and the consequences of not following
them.
✔ You will also learn how to respond to different
incidents and emergencies within health and social
care settings.
Key Terminology
A possible origin of harmful or an unfavourable
Hazard health effect.
Risk
Environmental hazards are manly common in
Environmental hazard crowded areas such as the, wet slippery floors,
broken objects on the floor, and tripping hazards.
Biological hazards are found in labs, hospitals and
Biological hazard surgical rooms. There could be traces of body waste,
blood; other body fluids before or after surgery. If
not properly cleaned or sterilised staff and patients
are at risk of catching an infection and spreading it.
Additionally, this will greatly affect a patient’s health
as they supposedly already have an illness they are
being treated for and they may leave with
something that could make it worse and potential
harm or kill them.
On the other hand, the institution would be at fault
for this as the were careless of their safety and the
patients. Therefore, under the COSHH ACT 2002
they could be prosecuted under the law if they find
, evidence of misconduct and poor training.
chemical hazards can be found in medications that
Chemical hazard can be stored in the wrong place, out of date, or left
with no lid. Also, cleaning agents, hot oil left
unattended to in the kitchen; unlocked cabinets with
dangerous chemicals in side and unlabelled chemical
fluids.
Psychological hazard Stress caused by people in a dentist waiting
room behaving in a challenging way; tiredness
caused by a high workload at work and due to
staff absence.
Physical hazard Bags lying on the floor which could cause an
accident, radiation, noise, poor lighting, and
long distance in between individual’s homes.
Working conditions Bags lying on the floor which could cause an
accident, radiation, noise, poor lighting, and
long distance in between individuals’ homes.
Room too hot or too cold.
Working practices Long working hours, due to staff being absent,
lack of support groups for adults.
Potential Impacts Injury or harm: for example, an individual
attending an appointment at their local GP fall
due to uneven stairs.
Harm/Abuse Bruises, scratches, cuts, burns and many more
are clear signs of harm and abuse.
Health Environment Hospitals, GP, intensive care units in hospitals,
surgery, or dentist.
Care environment An individual’s home, a residential care home
or a nursing home.
Childcare environment Crèches or schools
Public environment Shopping centres, parks, cinemas, and places
where large crowds gather.
Transport Centre minibus, ambulance.
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