Unit 249 Principles Of Supporting An Individual To Maintain Personal Hygiene Level 2 1 Credit

Changing circumstances within the workplace can cause hazards because other workers can be put at risk because they haven’t been made aware of the changes and management needs to be informed. Risk assessment is a method put in place that is suitable and sufficient to control the risk to health and safety to both employees and other persons who may be affected.

Within my role I have to compile risk assessments that recognise the choice and independence of residents, whilst ensuring the safety of residents and staff members. The risk assessment may be regarding social activities that may involve equipment or actions, which could cause harm or injury.

* Risk assessments – Local and governing authorities make compulsory the use of risk assessments. Risk assessments are carried out to evaluate any potential hazards that may

We should not normally discuss our personal beliefs with service users unless those beliefs are directly relevant to their care. We must not impose our beliefs on service users, or cause distress by the inappropriate or insensitive expression of religious, political or other beliefs

Keeping a good standard of personal hygiene is important for the prevention of the development and spreading of infection, illnesses and bad odours. Children are taught from an early age about personal hygiene and its importance at giving across a positive body image and to reduce the risk of being bullied. People don’t like to be talked about in

It is important to identify individual’s specific and unique needs so that they can receive the best care possible. Taking a person centred approach is vital, treating a service user as an individual person and acknowledge that

2. Explain how and when to report potential health and safety risks that have been identified

Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:

Risks assessments will identify any hazards and/or dangers and who might be harmed and how this may happen, allow the risks to be evaluated and check if the precautions are

There can be underlying personal factors in an individual that may be a cause of poor personal hygiene. These range from physical and mobility issues, to physiological and financial issues. These are explained below.

3.7. Using a risk assessment to promote health and safety is very important to ensure that the individual is kept safe in the work place. Risk assessments evaluate the risks and identify hazards to put precautions in place to reduce the risks. Reporting and recording the outcome of the risk assessments make things more clear and is careful to keep everybody protected and safe.

It is important to assess health and safety risks in order to reduce or eliminate them. Risk assessments are vitally important in order to protect the health and safety of both you and the individual’s you support. You should always check that a risk assessment has been carried out before you undertake any task in order for you to follow the steps identified and reduce any risk posed. There are many regulations that require risks

Activity 3: Regularly provide and clearly explain to the work team, information about identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and control

According to Spector (2017), the religious affiliations can help to understand its links in a complex chain of life events, hence, the caregiver must be aware and prepare to treat the individual as unique with a view that may differ from their own. I will be asking myself if I have enough understanding of what it requires to provide a culturally competent care to this patient.

Practicing proper hygiene is important to your mental health and helps you feel better about