Safety

avatar
Created by
Rebekah Heagren

Cards (34)

  • What is Discrimination
    The unfair treatment of groups of people with particular characteristics
  • The Equality Act 2010

    Legally protect people with the 9 protected characteristics from discrimination
    Age
    Disability
    Gender reassignment
    Race
    Sex
    Marriage and Civil partnership
    Pregnancy and maternity
    Religion
    Sexual orientation
  • Anti-discriminatory Practice

    Address own prejudice
    Understand and meet individual needs
    Challenge discrimination
    Ensure the setting is accessible
    Celebrate the contribution a diverse range of people can bring
  • Empowering Individuals

    Shared decision-making, equal decision making with professionals
    Enabling choice
    Personalised care and support planning, service users edit care plans
    Supported self management, increasing knowledge they have managing their own care
  • Individualised Care

    Takes time to find person's individual needs, make the feel confident enough to say how they would like to be cared for
  • Promoting Dignity

    Not doing anything that embarrasses others when carrying out personal care tasks
  • Health and Safety at Work Act
    Recording in accident books
    Having qualified first aiders
    Provide health and safety equipment
    Regulations, COSHH, RIDDOR
    Fire safety equipment, evacuation procedure
  • Employer Responsibilities

    Make sure workplace is safe
    Provide safe entrance and exit to work
    Ensure equipment is safe and maintained
    Provide protective clothing and equipment
    Provide first aid facilities
    Keep records of accident
  • Employee Responsibilities

    Take care of own safety
    Take care of others safety
    Work with employer to maintain safety
  • Risk Assessments

    Being prepared and aware, possibility of risks minimised
    Survey of risks and severity
    Employers responsibilities to anticipate danger and put measures in to reduce risks
    Staff responsibility to follow risk assessment
  • Risk Assessment steps 

    Observation - Look for anything that poses a risk, talk to staff about risks
    Who - Certain people may face more risk
    Evaluate - Consider level of risk, determine what will lower risk
    Record - Keep record of risk assessments, identify who it affects, adresss hazards, implement precautions
    Review - Change occurs, must be reviewed
  • Types of Hazards

    Physical environment
    Equipment
    Infectious substances
    Working conditions
    Security systems
  • Safeguarding

    Protect from harm as they have a right to feel safe
    Legal duty to protect service users, must know their responsibilities and receive training
  • How are people kept safe?
    Carry out risk assessments
    Record and report incidents
    Keep up to date with legislation
    Report and record concerns
    Promote anti-discriminatory practice
    Empower Individuals
    Maintain confidentiality
    Follow infection control procedures
  • Secure settings

    One man entrance with a secure door
    Families informed of unknown people visiting
    No resident details discussed on the phone
    Windows have restricted opening from inside
    Fire doors shouldn't open from outside
  • DBS Checks

    Helps employers make safer recruitment decisions, prevents unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups
  • Types of Abuse

    Physical
    Emotional
    Sexual
    Neglect
    Domestic
    Institutional
    Discriminatory
    CyperBullying
  • Physical abuse

    Intentional act that causes injury
    No explanation for injuries or inconsistency
    Frequent injuries
    Injuries inconsistent with lifestyle
  • Emotional abuse

    Subjecting another person to a behaviour resulting in psychological harm
    Lack of confidence
    Difficulty controlling emotions
    Extreme behaviours like outbursts
  • Sexual abuse

    Individual is touched sexually without permission
    Sexual behaviour or knowledge not age appropriate
    Pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease
    Avoiding specific people or places
  • Neglect

    Failure to care properly
    Dehydration, malnutrition, or hunger
    Poor personal hygiene, dirty clothes, body odour
    Untreated wounds and sores
  • Institutional Abuse

    Neglect of poor practice within a care setting
    Unsafe, unhygienic or overcrowded environment
    Lack of privacy or dignity
    Disregard for culture or religion
  • Domestic Abuse

    Incident of controlling, threatening, or violent behaviour
    Extremely apologetic
    Bruises or cuts
    Seemingly fearful or agitated
  • Discriminatory abuse

    Abuse focuses on differences
    Appear withdrawn, isolated, or anxious
    Harassment or deliberate exclusion
    Care provided does not meet their needs
  • Cyberbullying 

    Bullying that happens online
    Being upset after using the internet
    Being secretive of digital life
    Changes in mood, sleep disturbances
  • Illness Prevention Procedures
    Hand washing
    PPE, prevent cross contamination
    Check equipment and environment
    Complete mandatory infection prevention and control training
    Dispose of waste properly
  • COSHH

    Control of substances hazardous to health
    Hazardous waste disposed of correctly with risk assessments
    Waste is anything contaminated with urine, blood or bodily fluids
  • Reporting accidents and incidents
    Reported to employer, recorded in accordance with the reporting of injuries, diseases, and dangerous occurrences regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)
    Accident forms to report details, stored in accident book
    Completed within 48 hours so details are accurate
  • Provision of first aid facilities
    Recorded - name, injury, date, time, location, treatment
    Truthful and accurate, used in court if compensation is being claimed
  • Confidentiality 

    Keep information private, not sharing information without permission
    Individuals must trust professionals so confidentiality must be kept
  • Breaking confidentiality

    An individual is at risk of being harmed
    An individual is at risk of causing harm
    An individual is about to or has broken the law
  • How is information kept confidential
    Paper - Kept away when not used, stored in filing cabinet
    Electronic devices - Secure passwords, locked when not in use
    GDPR Act 2018 - Data protection rules guide people how to handle data
  • Multi-disciplinary Working

    When different professionals work together
    Assess needs of individuals
    Assess if there's a need for a service
    Communicating about care needed or given
    Agreeing how or when service will be available
    Evaluate if service is meeting targets
  • Multi-disciplinary Working Evaluation
    Improves efficiency of care system
    Ensure individuals are involved in decision making
    Holistic care so all areas are addressed
    Communication delays, details missed
    Personality conflicts
    Gaps in service provision