How To Btec Business Level 3 Unit 3 Health And Safety And Security P1
How legislation, policies and procedures influence and promote the safety of individuals in health and social care settings.
In this assignment I will be outlining how legislation, policies and procedures relate to health, safety and security and how they influence different health and social care settings. I am also going to analyse the consequences of breaking the law or disobeying policies by including examples of a variety of appropriate policies and procedures for a working practise within the health and social care environment.
How does law become law?
Laws are rules that must be obeyed by every UK citizen. In a democracy like the UK nobody is above the law and everybody must abide by them or face the consequences of punishment; …show more content…
Laws are also put into place to protect vulnerable people, such as the Data Protection Act 1998 was put into place to securely protect an individual’s information and for it to be only be seen by the correct professional people such as doctors and the individual him/herself. If a particular person has a mental illness if they’re information is not correctly stored away somebody could misuse that information and it could potentially lead to abuse.
Summary of Legislation’s
Regulations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Since the start of the health and safety at work act (generally known as HASAWA) were first passed extra rules have been added as time has moved on, these regulations include
Manual handling operations regulations 1992
Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR) 1995
Control of substances hazardous to health regulations (COSHH) 2002
Food safety act 1990
Food safety (food preparation) regulation 1995
Data protection act
In this assignment I will be outlining how legislation, policies and procedures relate to health, safety and security and how they influence different health and social care settings. I am also going to analyse the consequences of breaking the law or disobeying policies by including examples of a variety of appropriate policies and procedures for a working practise within the health and social care environment.
How does law become law?
Laws are rules that must be obeyed by every UK citizen. In a democracy like the UK nobody is above the law and everybody must abide by them or face the consequences of punishment; …show more content…
Laws are also put into place to protect vulnerable people, such as the Data Protection Act 1998 was put into place to securely protect an individual’s information and for it to be only be seen by the correct professional people such as doctors and the individual him/herself. If a particular person has a mental illness if they’re information is not correctly stored away somebody could misuse that information and it could potentially lead to abuse.
Summary of Legislation’s
Regulations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Since the start of the health and safety at work act (generally known as HASAWA) were first passed extra rules have been added as time has moved on, these regulations include
Manual handling operations regulations 1992
Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR) 1995
Control of substances hazardous to health regulations (COSHH) 2002
Food safety act 1990
Food safety (food preparation) regulation 1995
Data protection act