Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace

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Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care
Workplace

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Introduction

• In this assignment, we are going to review
  the system policies and procedure for ensuring
  that communication regarding information on
  health and safety in health and social care
  workplace is going accordance with all
  legislative requirements and assessing the
  responsibility of a manager in managing health
  and safety in regards of Fleet Wood Hall Home
  case study.
• It has been found that after the proper
  inspection from time to time regarding health
  concern in Fleet Wood Hall Home it was inadequate
  and not properly managed and communicated
  regarding health and safety concern.

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• Not enough staff was available on duty as par
  the people living in the home. Medicine
  management was also not so strong. Various error
  and mistake were found in administration and
  monitoring of medicine.
• Complaint management system was inadequate.
  Missing of some complaints received.
• Safety in regards to the environment is not
  adequate and missing. Not proper flooring in the
  mental unit is found.
• System to monitor the level of safety and
  quality was ineffective and not strong.
• The provider was not able to communicate the
  Care Quality Commission about all the events .so
  overall rating of care quality Commission was
  inadequate.

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Review

• The overall system of management was inadequate.
• 1.After reviewing the case, it was found that
• 2.Not proper training is given to the staff in
  the home to manage the system.
• 3.The home was not full filling all the
  requirements (breach of requirements).
• 4.Minimum required amenities is missing.
• 5.Managing the medicine and its administration
  and monitoring system is not strong enough that
  is robust.
• 6.Not proper grievance redressal system was
  implemented.
• 7.Not enough staff was there to provide service.
• 8.Level of managers understanding is not up to
  the mark.
• 9.Staff culture and practice were outdated and
  not timely training is provided to the nurse and
  the staff.
• 10.Quality and safety system of monitoring is not
  effective.
• 11.Views of people and families were not
  considered in regards to safety and health
  concern.

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Policies and procedure

• There are a lot of existing policies and
  procedure for communicating information on health
  and safety in the health and social workplace one
  among them is data protection act which is now
  more pertinent. It implies right to privacy. In
  this, no clear policies are followed. Ambiguous
  policies are found.
• As a New Director, he or she must adopt
  the data privacy system in the workplace. And
  proper grievance redressal mechanism should be
  implemented.
• Medicines were not given in accordance to
  the home's medication policy, and the not even
  proper procedure is followed as per Mental
  Capacity Act 2005.
• No proper policies are there to ensure the
  safety and health.

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References

• Cite a Website - Cite This For Me.
  (2018). Cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2018,
  from http//www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new
  _reports/INS2-2471399261.pdf