HSC WORKPLACE

Health and safety in health and social care workplace

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Health and safety in health and social care workplace

Introduction

Health and safety plays an inevitable role in enhancing the performance and productivity of the company. Violent acts including threats of assaults and physical assaults towards the person at workplace disturbs the performance of the employees. Health and safety policies, procedures and methods must be present within the workplace in order to make the performance of the workplace's employees efficient. In recent years, service workers of health and social care are facing considerable risks regarding their job related violence. Assaults and violence signifies a serious health and safety hazards within the workplace of health and social care (HSA, 2005, Pp.2-4). Many guidelines and policies have been proposed by agencies in order to reduce violence at the workplace. Furthermore, numerous private and public violence programs are being implemented in the workplace of health and social care in order to reduce violence and insecurity from the workplace. These programs are ensuring the provision of health and safety to the employees in the workplace of health and social care. These violence prevention programs which ensure the health and safety are encouraging employers to their progress in order to reduce assault and violence in their work. Adoption of the available prevention programs and policies can greatly assist in reducing this serious threat to the safety of the worker (Victorian Work Cover Authority, 2001, Pp.3-7).

Discussion and analysis

Health and safety legislation in HSC workplace

According to the study of BLS i.e. Bureau of Labor statistics, it has been observed that safety and health violence is growing in the workplaces of health and social care. It found that in the year 2000, almost 48 % of all of the non-fatal wounds from occupational violent acts and assaults occurred in the services of health and social care. Most of these violent acts are occurring in nursing, residential care services, personal care facilities and hospitals. Attendants, aides, nurses and orderlies are suffering from the most non assaults which are resulting in harms. There are numerous risk factors for the workers of health and social care workplace (HSA, n.d., Pp.5-8). Workers of health and social care are facing an increased challenge of assaults related to their work due to several factors. One of the significant factors is the growing usage of hospitals by criminal justice system, and police for criminal holds and also for providing care to intensely violent and disturbed individuals. However, the prevalence of weapons like handguns among patients or their friends or families also appears as the primary reason. The accessibility of money or drugs at clinics, pharmacies and hospitals are becoming the main reason for robbery targets (HSA, n.d., Pp.5-8).

Policies, procedures and systems in health and social care workplace

This unit of the paper will assist in enabling learners to gain an understanding of security, safety and health for each and every individual in the workplace of health and social care. Many legislation, procedures and policies ...