Health and Safety Ontario workers experience about 200‚000 injuries p/year 100‚000 roughly are strains and sprains Strains/sprains are known as Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) Inspections are to identify hazards Hazardous agents are: Chemical‚ biological and physical Hazard pathway Source of hazard path to worker affect worker Example: Chemical use in unventilated room vapors in air toxic to worker Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) “Right to know” Global Harmonized System
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Explain potential hazards and harm that they may arise from each in a health and social care setting (P1) There are lots of hazards that may occur in health and social care settings‚ these hazards pose risks of harm that effect specific service user groups. The essay is based on a private residential care home for the elderly with dementia‚ these people have mobility issues and other health issues associated with old age‚ e.g. high blood pressure and diabetes. There are 20 residents with 8 permanent
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staff from any hazards. Hazards can occur from equipment‚ any activities done in the nursery‚ material and going on trips from the nursery. Doing a risk assessment in the nursery setting minimizes the risk of hazards occurring. However‚ when doing a risk assessment you must also consider children’s development. You don’t want the environment to be overly safe because children need some level of risk but these level must be suitable for the child. There are many risks and hazards that can be
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Safe Construction Over the last few decades the impact of natural disasters on lives‚ property‚ livelihood and infrastructure has skyrocketed‚ because of rise in world population and people having started living in areas that are prone to natural hazards. We can live safely in such areas provided due precautions are taken. We should construct disaster resistant buildings to curb the loss to life and property. This approach should be incorporated at the earliest possible time while doing design
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hospital. Priorities and response you use when in a hospital if there was a fire- As with all other areas of health and safety in the workplace‚ a thorough risk assessment of potential fire hazards should be carried out and is fire safety strategy. The important things you need to decide is whether a hazard is significant and whether you have covered it by taking precautions so that the risk is acceptably low. Your main priority would be getting everyone out the building and ensuring you do it in
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environment Part 2 – a hazard checklist of the location(s) Record a brief description of three location hazards that may arise in your work environment. For example‚ car park‚ stairs‚ uneven floor. For each of these hazards please include: a description of the location a description of the hazard – in relation to the location the number and occupation of people who could be affected by the hazard – in relation to the location whether a risk assessment is recommended Part 3 – a hazard checklist of permanent
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reflect whatever it contains‚ it needs to identify hazards in the workplace and which staff might be harmed‚ and employers need to identify how the individuals might be harmed. Hazards in the working environment A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life‚ health‚ property‚ or environment. Employers as well as employees have to co-ordinate their work‚ so that they ensure that no-one gets hurt during the process. Most of the hazards which are mostly found in hospitals surroundings
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process or minimize by founding earlier the hazard. For example‚ have a look around how many hazards are exist. If there is a broken toy‚ we can hurt or injury by small sharp plastic pieces. At that case‚ if we eliminate the hazard‚ we can’t face with that dangerous situation. And also‚ assume the wet floor. It probably possible to fall down or broken legs while running children or walking adult didn’t recognize the floor is wet. We can avoid this hazard using the yellow small caution standings.
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Risk assessments should be carried out before an activity to identify and minimize potential hazards before occurring. The risk assessment for a water play activity should include the risks‚ the identified potential hazards‚ who are actually at risk‚ the level of risk after evaluation and the appropriate action to be taken to minimize the risk or hazard. The risk assessment that was carried out for the outdoor activity I have called ‘puddle play’‚ was for children between the age of 3 and 4 years
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Step 1: Identify the hazards: First you need to work out how people could be harmed. When you work in a place every day it is easy to overlook some hazards‚ so here are some tips to help you identify the ones that matter: * Walk around your workplace and look at what could reasonably be expected to cause harm. * Ask your employees or their representatives what they think. They may have noticed things that are not immediately obvious to you. * Visit the HSE website. HSE publishes practical
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