P7 - Explain how different procedures maintain health and safety in a selected health or
social care.
There are procedures that are used when recruiting staff within a health and social care setting.
A procedure is DBS stands for ‘Disclosure and Barring Service’. The main aim of the DBS is to
aid employers in making safer recruitment decisions and ensuring that unsuitable people do not
work with vulnerable individuals. A DBS check is a way from employers to find out if the
potential employees have had any ‘spent and unspent convictions’, any cautions that the
individuals have and any reprimands and final warnings. This information would be given to the
employers so that they are able to determine whether the individual applying for the job is
suitable for the job. There are 3 different types of DBS checks. The standards DBS checks for
the minimum whereas the enhanced DBS checks for the minimum ‘plus any additional
information held by local police’ that can be considered relevant to the profession the individual
is applying for. The third type of DBS is the ‘enhanced with list checks’. This DBS provides all
the information for the enhanced DBS but also includes barred lists. The DBS would show if the
individual is named on any barred lists. If they are then individuals aren't able to work with
children or vulnerable adults. Everybody who works or wants to work with vulnerable people are
required to have a DBS. A DBS check is simply a way of safeguarding the vulnerable individuals
that the professionals would have to work with.
A Disclosure and Barring Service check is a procedure that is put in place to maintain health
and safety within a health and social care setting and to safeguard vulnerable adults, children
and young people. The DBS shows if the individual has been involved in any criminal offences.
The employers would then have the responsibility to make the decision on whether the service
users would be safe around the potential employee. If the service users would be safe, then the
employer would have the responsibility to dismiss the individual applying for the job.
Within the case study, about Lizzy D, Amina Patel (the ward manager) would have been a part
of the recruitment team when individuals were applying for a job at the hospital or within the
ward. Amina would have been one of the individuals that had to look at the DBS of the potential
employees. Amina would have had to consider the health and safety of the service users within
the ward and determine whether the persona applying for the job is suitable to put the service
users at risk.
Another procedure that is used to maintain health and safety within a health and social care
setting is Fire Safety, Evacuation and Security. This procedure is used for responding to
accidents and emergencies. Every health and social care setting have procedures for fire safety,
evacuation and security. The procedures can be split into separate procedures, but they all
amount to the same thing. To maintain health and safety within the health and social care
setting. Fire safety refers to the planning tht is done to help prevent fire within a workplace and
to ensure safety for everybody within the setting if a fire does occur. Each workplace setting will
have their own fire safety procedures that includes a fire risk safety assessment, what can be
used to stop a fire before it spreads and where all the fire exits are. An evacuation is ‘temporary
, but rapid removal of people from buildings or disasters’. With a care setting, if a fire was
happening, to maintain the health and safety of the service users, the staff would have to follow
a procedure to evacuate the service users in a sensible way that wouldn’t affect the service
users badly. Security is ‘the state of being free from danger’. This means that security is a way
to provide safety for people and not to harm them.
Around a health and social care setting, write ups of all this information would be posted around
the setting so that everybody is able to see it. Having these write up helps the staff, service
users and any visitor be aware of what to do in an emergency. These settings didn’t have write
ups, there may be confusion on what to do and how to react while an emergency is happening.
This could put everybody in danger.
Within the case study about Lizzy, this procedure should be used. The case study shows that
the entrance door is being propped open. This related to the security part of the procedure.
People can just walk in and out and that would put everybody on the ward in danger.
social care.
There are procedures that are used when recruiting staff within a health and social care setting.
A procedure is DBS stands for ‘Disclosure and Barring Service’. The main aim of the DBS is to
aid employers in making safer recruitment decisions and ensuring that unsuitable people do not
work with vulnerable individuals. A DBS check is a way from employers to find out if the
potential employees have had any ‘spent and unspent convictions’, any cautions that the
individuals have and any reprimands and final warnings. This information would be given to the
employers so that they are able to determine whether the individual applying for the job is
suitable for the job. There are 3 different types of DBS checks. The standards DBS checks for
the minimum whereas the enhanced DBS checks for the minimum ‘plus any additional
information held by local police’ that can be considered relevant to the profession the individual
is applying for. The third type of DBS is the ‘enhanced with list checks’. This DBS provides all
the information for the enhanced DBS but also includes barred lists. The DBS would show if the
individual is named on any barred lists. If they are then individuals aren't able to work with
children or vulnerable adults. Everybody who works or wants to work with vulnerable people are
required to have a DBS. A DBS check is simply a way of safeguarding the vulnerable individuals
that the professionals would have to work with.
A Disclosure and Barring Service check is a procedure that is put in place to maintain health
and safety within a health and social care setting and to safeguard vulnerable adults, children
and young people. The DBS shows if the individual has been involved in any criminal offences.
The employers would then have the responsibility to make the decision on whether the service
users would be safe around the potential employee. If the service users would be safe, then the
employer would have the responsibility to dismiss the individual applying for the job.
Within the case study, about Lizzy D, Amina Patel (the ward manager) would have been a part
of the recruitment team when individuals were applying for a job at the hospital or within the
ward. Amina would have been one of the individuals that had to look at the DBS of the potential
employees. Amina would have had to consider the health and safety of the service users within
the ward and determine whether the persona applying for the job is suitable to put the service
users at risk.
Another procedure that is used to maintain health and safety within a health and social care
setting is Fire Safety, Evacuation and Security. This procedure is used for responding to
accidents and emergencies. Every health and social care setting have procedures for fire safety,
evacuation and security. The procedures can be split into separate procedures, but they all
amount to the same thing. To maintain health and safety within the health and social care
setting. Fire safety refers to the planning tht is done to help prevent fire within a workplace and
to ensure safety for everybody within the setting if a fire does occur. Each workplace setting will
have their own fire safety procedures that includes a fire risk safety assessment, what can be
used to stop a fire before it spreads and where all the fire exits are. An evacuation is ‘temporary
, but rapid removal of people from buildings or disasters’. With a care setting, if a fire was
happening, to maintain the health and safety of the service users, the staff would have to follow
a procedure to evacuate the service users in a sensible way that wouldn’t affect the service
users badly. Security is ‘the state of being free from danger’. This means that security is a way
to provide safety for people and not to harm them.
Around a health and social care setting, write ups of all this information would be posted around
the setting so that everybody is able to see it. Having these write up helps the staff, service
users and any visitor be aware of what to do in an emergency. These settings didn’t have write
ups, there may be confusion on what to do and how to react while an emergency is happening.
This could put everybody in danger.
Within the case study about Lizzy, this procedure should be used. The case study shows that
the entrance door is being propped open. This related to the security part of the procedure.
People can just walk in and out and that would put everybody on the ward in danger.
