HEALTH AND SAFETY

Health and Safety

Health and Safety

Introduction

A healthy and safe working environment leads to healthy and motivated employees. Employees who are healthy and safe working are sick less often, arched or disability, are more motivated and generally perform better. This saves employers unnecessarily high morbidity and replacement costs and insurance premiums (Goetsch, 2011, p.34). This paper demonstrates the health and safety in health and social care workplace with respect to risk assessment and monitoring.

Discussion

Employers are primarily responsible for ensuring that their employees safe and healthy to do their work. Employees also have their responsibilities herein. Example, they are required to keep. Comply with the safety regulations within the company

To promote safe and healthy work it is important that employers inform their employees of their rights and obligations and maintain. It is also important that employers perform a structural, adequate and up-to-date health and safety policy. It is recommended to your health and safety policy in cooperation with the works council or employee representation set (Dollard et al., 2010, p.580).

Health and safety of employees includes:

Preventing the possible risk of injury or damage to persons or clients.

Evaluation of the necessary safety measures to eliminate dangerous radiation sources, reducing the risk of technological and organizational measures and the use of personal protective equipment.

The constant use of security measures to ensure the reduction of the risk of injury and damage to health.

Providing a safe and supportive working environment for employees in accordance with the nature of its activities, using appropriate, ergonomic equipment to provide opportunities for work (Curtis, 2012).

Preventive medical examinations and the reception staff to the positions given the state of their health.

Periodic monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the health and safety of employees in the work, including the objectives and programs of improvement.

Carrying out hazardous work in strict accordance with the instructions and under the supervision of senior officials.

Policies Health and Safety in Health and Social Care Workplace

The Department of Health Policy and Safety is linked to the Department of Social Welfare Policies.

Among the main activities of the Department include:

Assisting in the formulation and propose guidelines and standards relating to the intersection between the actions of health and safety at work and enforcement actions and recognition of pension benefits arising from environmental hazards at work (Black et al., 2011);

Coordinate, monitor, evaluate and supervise the actions of the General Social Security, as well as policy directed at Social Security Regimes, in areas that keep interrelation with the safety and health of workers;

Coordinate, monitor and oversee the updating and revision of plans Costs and benefits, together with the Department of the General Social Security, on subjects of their area of ??competence;

Studies, research and propose training activities in order to improve the legislation and the actions of the General Welfare Regimes and Social Security, within its competence;

Propose in social security and in conjunction with the other agencies involved, policies for the health and safety of workers, with emphasis on protection and prevention.

Safe handling of work

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