LO3

• Roles - expectations of an individual or an organisation. The function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a health and social care setting.
• Employers - NHS, local authority, care manager, headteacher, third sector (organisations). Employees and individuals who require care and support.
• Employers - role to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation. Employers must provide a safe place to work and any necessary training and safe work equipment.
• NHS - provide care to people's homes (direct care) services such as occupational therapy, provide staff with sufficient supervising, information and training to work safely. Provide environments that are secure and healthy to work in and visit.
• Local authority - 2 roles in promoting and enforcing health and safety . Promoting - provide guidance and raise awareness of healthy and safety by providing information about roles and responsibilities. Enforce - carry out inspections and make recommendations for improvements send advisory letters, re inspect and prosecute premises if don't maintain adequate standards. Care manager - develop, review and update policies and procedures, ensure effective systems for recording , reporting and investigating, accidents under RIDDOR.
• Headteacher - ensure school employ staff that follow health and safety policies, make sure staff know responsibilities and how to access support to manage risk appropriately. Up to date with policies. Oversight to ensure safeguarding and to protect the welfare of staff, students and visitors so the school site and activities are healthy safe and secure.
• Third sector - charity. safeguard and promote the health , safety and welfare of its employees and all those who work on behalf of the charity. Work closely with local authority and other agencies to promote and safeguard the welfare of individuals who require care and support. Age Uk etc.
• Employees - role is to use safe working practices to maintain their own and others safety, attend health and safety training, use PPE, report hazards in the workplace. Individuals who require support - follow all health and safety, instructions provided verbally by staff. Report any hazards they become aware of.
• Role of employees - must work together with employers to maintain health, safety and security. Maintaining own and others health safety and security, following employers guidance and instruction, attending health and safety training, using equipment provided for health and safety aprons etc. , reporting hazards found in the workplace.
• Roles individuals who require care and support - should be involved in maintaining safe and secure environments. Should follow health and safety guidance and instructions as to what to do in an emergency. Should comply with health and safety procedures, food safety and manual handling. Should observe health and safety signs, escape routes etc.
• Responsibilities - day to day tasks that meet legislation and organisational policies and procedures. These are required of both employers and employees within health and social care settings regarding health, safety and security.
• Responsibilities include - promoting maintaining and enforcing health and safety policies and procedures. Employees need to use equipment correctly as per their training and report any gaps in health and safety that could endanger lives. Service users need to understand health and safety policies and the practices that operate within the setting they use, ensuring they follow instructions.
• Responsibilities of employer - develop and maintain health and saefty policy/procedures. promote and enforce health and safety policy/procedures. discipline staff where necessary. deliver training -according to training plan, in response to incidents. Conduct and review and update risk assessments for all activities, facilities, incidents, individuals. purchase insurance cover. report and maintain records of notifiable incidents for at least 3 years.
• Responsibilities of employees - read health and safety policy/procedure, sign and date it. seek clarification if needed. participate in induction and mandatory training. attend supervised session where directed. identify, record and review potential and actual health and safety practices. store substances appropriately as per training. maintain tidy working environment to prevent accidents. minimise risk e.g. clean spillages etc. maintain accurate records.
• Responsibilities of individuals who require care/support - read through any material given by the organisation. attend any relevant meetings. cooperate with staff/ support completion of risk assessments. comply with policies and procedures.
• Direct costs - claims on employers and public liability insurance, sick pay, fines.
• Indirect costs - recruitment costs, overtime payments, low staff morale.
• Disciplinary action - first verbal warning, final written warning, dismissal.
• Civil and criminal prosecution - satute law.
• Being removed from professional registers - medical, teaching.
• Causing injury or harm or being injured or harmed.
• Disciplinary action - employers can bring about disciplinary action. First they carry out an investigation to establish all the relevant facts during this period an employer may be suspended. If no misconduct is found the employee may be asked to return to work and resume their responsibilities. Evidence such as witness statements should be made available to the employee.
• Health and safety at work act states that if a director/senior manager personally commits an offence and their actions are deemed grossly negligent and can cause a person's death - then a charge of gross manslaughter can be brought.
• Being removed from professional registers - regulators of professionals, hold registers of professionals because they have a duty to safeguard the public and ensure professionals provide high standards of care. Midwives and nurses must be registered in the Uk. If the professional is deemed not fit to practise or failure to assess risks safely they can be removed from the register or be suspended for a period of 2 years or be subject to a 'conditions of practise order which restricts their duties/responsibilities. e.g. general medical council, nursing and midwifery council.
• Causing injury/harm - employer/employees/ individuals who require care and support, may harm/injure themselves or to others if they fail to carry out their responsibilities. not having a clear procedure in place to carry out risk assessments could mean the employer cannot identify health and safety hazards. Employees have a responsibility to only carry out tasks that they are competent to do.
• Causing injury/harm - if they are unsure about a task or have not recieved sufficient training they must record to their employer and not doing it could lead to injury/harm themselves colleagues or individuals they provide care or support to. Individuals are responsible for working with employers and employees in promoting their own and others' health, safety and welfare. not doing so may lead to putting themselves and others working and visiting the setting in danger and could result in injuries or harm.
• Being injured/harmed - failure to meet health and safety responsibilities can lead to a range of injuries/harm - some minor, more serious and even fatalities.
• Importance of risk assessments - awareness and identification of actual hazards, identification of those at risk, eliminating and/or controlling the hazard, preventing injuries, preventing illnesses, evaluating the likelihood of a hazardous incident occurring using likelihood scales. risk level= likelihood severity of risk.
• Impacts of hazards - potential impacts of hazards for individuals who require care or support, employers or employees. injury/harm, illness, poor standards of care, financial loss.