Health and Safety
Explain how health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed.
Define the following: ❖ Health and Safety- According to World Health Organisation health was defined as ‘a state of complete psychic, mental and social well-being [which] does not merely consist of an absence of disease or infirmity’. The scope of health and safety includes protection of the worker’s well-being, social and psychological as well as physical. Social well-being may be affected by the organisation of work, such as space, working time patterns, isolation; psychological well-being (psychosocial hazards) may be affected by factors such as workload and speed, stress at work, monotony, lack of social contacts, absence of collective representation and unfair remuneration. ❖ Accident Book- a book that must be provided in every workplace by the employer in which all workplace accidents must be recorded. ❖ Care Centre Managers- is a person assigned who plans, organises, directs, control and coordinates the activities; the one who prepare the centre’s budget; to coordinate activities with other divisions and departments and perform related work as assigned. ❖ Manager- a person, who directs, manages an organisation, industry, shop, etc. ❖ Supervisor- person in the first line management who monitors and regulates employees in their performance of assigned or delegated task ❖ Safety Representatives and Health and Safety Committee – employee or a member of a union, who represents the employees with regard to their health and safety at work. He/she can have a very positive impact on levels of safety and health in the workplace ❖ Individual Employees- any individual who performs services if the relationship between the individual and the person for whom the services are performed is the legal relationship of employer and employee. This includes an individual who receives a supplemental unemployment pay benefit that is treated as wages. ❖ Health
Define the following: ❖ Health and Safety- According to World Health Organisation health was defined as ‘a state of complete psychic, mental and social well-being [which] does not merely consist of an absence of disease or infirmity’. The scope of health and safety includes protection of the worker’s well-being, social and psychological as well as physical. Social well-being may be affected by the organisation of work, such as space, working time patterns, isolation; psychological well-being (psychosocial hazards) may be affected by factors such as workload and speed, stress at work, monotony, lack of social contacts, absence of collective representation and unfair remuneration. ❖ Accident Book- a book that must be provided in every workplace by the employer in which all workplace accidents must be recorded. ❖ Care Centre Managers- is a person assigned who plans, organises, directs, control and coordinates the activities; the one who prepare the centre’s budget; to coordinate activities with other divisions and departments and perform related work as assigned. ❖ Manager- a person, who directs, manages an organisation, industry, shop, etc. ❖ Supervisor- person in the first line management who monitors and regulates employees in their performance of assigned or delegated task ❖ Safety Representatives and Health and Safety Committee – employee or a member of a union, who represents the employees with regard to their health and safety at work. He/she can have a very positive impact on levels of safety and health in the workplace ❖ Individual Employees- any individual who performs services if the relationship between the individual and the person for whom the services are performed is the legal relationship of employer and employee. This includes an individual who receives a supplemental unemployment pay benefit that is treated as wages. ❖ Health