Task 5 – Risk Assessment and Policy
Within any organisation there are huge requirements which involve ensuring the companies can definitely fulfil their responsibilities and duties when it comes to the health and safety issues. The purposed of any organisation is not just restricted towards earning the profits and ensuring the sustainability. It is acknowledged that there are various strategies that can be put into place that will minimise the risks. All that needs to be done to do this is by identifying them before anything bad happens. Special considerations have been paid to identify the risks that are associated with the organisational setting and taking the correct procedures to minimise these. Further the dilemmas have also encountered with respect to the implementation of policies and procedures related to the health and safety and security measures (Baldock, James, Smallbone & Vickers, 2006). It is very much considerable and prioritized element within the study. The Legal compliance has also explained the perspective of ensuring heath and safety at workplace. All the information provided as been gathered from proper risk analysis processes. This information could also be used in various situations and could provide different opportunities to improve the current health and safety standards, along with strengthening the decision-making processes that are being used at this current time.
2.1 How information from risk assessments can inform planning for the care of the individuals and how an organization might undertake organizational policies decision making.
The Risk assessments that are provided for patients and staff to see are very much positive in informing everyone about the care of the people and patients. All risk assessments help in making everyone familiar with any possible risks that could arise in the health and social care setting but most importantly its reflections could be experienced when left with the task of the decision-making process. If the risk assessment is not legitimate and true to the possible risks that could arise then the policies related to health and safety cannot be implemented or designed in the most suitable way. The systems and procedures could also become lead towards the entirety of the business could end up expecting that every patient and risk is the same and therefore it will start to be not familiar to their real problem and issues. The risk assessment process has the one main advantage related to the fact that it enables an organization to identify the problems and issues which they are facing currently. In the risk assessments the weak aspects and all the errors in the health and safety could also come into notification. The risk assessment process also provides the facility to compare the actual standards with the current standard and through comparative analysis the improvements could be introduced. The planning process could be improved as it enables an organization to get hold on their review and monitoring process as well. The major contribution is that the areas of concern and possible risks could be assessed in painstaking manner and huge level of security measures could come’s into existence. The guidelines could also be identified in an appropriate and effective manner by the company. With the help of those guidelines the equipment’s and machineries could be installed accurately. The international standards could be followed as risk assessment process indicates towards following all the internationally set benchmarks. The changes into the existing policies could also be facilitated if the existing policies are not compatible to set guidelines. The decision could be effective and result oriented and most importantly could benefit all the people associated to the health and social care organization. By doing a risk assessment the safety of people could be ensured but it should always be done in an effective and honest way, this is the only way of getting all the correct results from the risk assessment process. Therefore, in this the planning could be improved at very large scale through these risk assessment practices and every kind of health care unit could undertake this process and avail the positive consequences.
2.2 Impact of one aspect of your health and safety policy on your own practice with service users and the care team.
It is to acknowledge that there are various factors that can help on the ground of making the perfect combination of health and safety for clients and staff. Only one single factor could not be helpful with respect to the health and safety of employees. Cleanliness hygiene, operational theatre architecture, layout and most importantly the handling of equipment’s and machineries etc. these are some of the major aspects that can facilitate the high level of security not only for the patients but for staff also. One aspects of health and safety policy is to ensure the cleanliness and hygienic environment at the workplace. Cleanliness and hygiene could be helpful in ensuring the security as very large scale. It is to acknowledge that if the cleanliness is not proper within the organizational setting than the bacteria could be spread and most importantly the virus could create harmful effect for the society as well. The care team and own practices suggest that it has been found in past as well that neglecting the element of cleanliness even at very small stage have created such blunders and negative consequences for the health of people. It should gain huge consideration into the organizational policies. The cleanliness and hygiene could be helpful with respect to disseminate the healthy environment. The hygiene could need to be ensured in operation theatre where the threat of infections is very immense. In case of risk analysis, it has been found that avoiding the clean environment within the operation theatre cause harmful effects to both doctors and patients. The nursing staff as well as the helping team also faced lots of negative implications. This is the only reason that why cleanliness and hygiene maintenance have got huge priority into the health and safety policy. For the same purpose it has been taken care of that every operation must be conducted in highly hygiene environment, washing facilities like hand wash, clothing laundry etc. must be appropriate so that the bacteria could be killed on immediate basis. It is a best way to prevent germs and viruses to get spread in whole environment (Clarke ; Cooper, 2004). Beyond these aspects the waste materials also required to be dumped as per the instructions. The set of instructions have been passed with respect to the implement this policy within the organizational setting in stringent manner.
2.3 Possible dilemmas encountered in relation to implementing systems and policies for health, safety and security and how these may be addressed.
There are various problems related to the implementation of policies and procedures related to the health and safety measures of at organizational setting. The major dilemma could be related to communicate all the plans and procedures within the organization at various hierarchical levels. However most of the people remain familiar with these aspects but still there could be proper requirement of following these health and safety policies. Sometime the situation arises that some people within the staff behaves in very careless manner and it just creates troubles with respect to ensuring the safety. Further the lack of training towards operating the machineries and equipment’s could also be a dilemma in relation to implementing the systems and policies for health and safety and security. It is one of the most troubling issues for the health and social care setting. The training is one of the major sections of ensuring the patients security. Other dilemmas could be related to sensitivity related to spreading of bacteria and virus or harmful germs. Therefore, these are certain dilemmas that could be faced by health and social care sector. With respect to addressing these issues there is requirement of aligning with the legal aspects within the organization. The internal legal aspects should be compatible as per the external legal aspects. It can provide highly security and safe environment. All the departments and staff people were required to behave in attentive manner and the element of carelessness could be avoided. Therefore, the role of legal aspects is very immense in ensuring the avoidance of dilemmas. Further the role of training is also huge to ensure the effectiveness of security measures. The dilemma related to the lack of training could be eradicated very easily (Verderber, 2010). The training could be imparted in various areas or fields. It is to ensure that training should have proper modules and sessions must be categorised in such a way that it caters all the areas. The seminars and conferences can help in eliminating the dilemmas in appropriate manner. The training could be beneficial in providing the practical knowledge to the employees and most importantly the equipment handling process could be explained. Therefore, in this way these dilemmas could be addressed or removed in effective manner.
2.4 Effects of non-compliance experience in relation to health and safety legislation in the workplace.
There are various factors associated to the noncompliance of health and safety regulations in the workplace. If the legislations are not clear than lots of problems and issues could be faced. The major negative consequences could be that the roles and responsibilities of care workers could be explained in proper way. It is one of the major problems related to non-compliance. The care workers won’t be able to understand various aspects which are helpful on the ground of their rights as well. The delay in tasks completion could be faced and most importantly the delay in decision making could be experienced. The integration among the staff people could lower down and it can create lots of negative aspects. The chaos could be created, and confusion can make the scenario worst. The teamwork could be hampered and differences among the staff people could be realized. It is to acknowledge that it might be noticed that peace and harmony among the staff people has been minimized and the level of grudges is also very high. It lowers down the productivity as well and the working efficiency could be diminished. Irresponsible attitude could be developed among them. it is one of the major issues related to the non-compliance experience. Therefore, the legislation must be implemented and followed in an appropriate manner. Ahead problems could be faced in achieving the organizational goals and objectives (Ludhra, 2014). The reputation of the firm could also be spoiled at very large scale if the legislation practices are not so appropriate. People can never put their faith and it just minimizes the footfalls ratio of patients.
Based on above study, it can be concluded that the marketing has power to establish the business and it integrates with another department as well. To improve the position of company within the market the marketing mix elements must be used in effective and proper manner. the major learning of the study is that marketing mix elements could be designed in proper manner if the marketing audit has been done in an appropriate way. It includes both internal and external environment assessment. For the travel and tourism company they need to focus on variety of segments even they are focusing on tourism activity. However, it is very risky for any business, but uniqueness could be supported through marketing strategies. Overall it could be stated that all the marketing strategies are inter linked to each another and must be designed in well-organized as well as well systematic manner. Further the study has contributed well in developing the intellect towards the difference between Business 2 business marketing and business to consumer marketing along with international and domestic marketing. It is very crucial as well as significant learning of the study.
