Safeguarding
- Created by: Grace.2006
- Created on: 21-10-22 09:59
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- Safeguarding
- Protecting service users, staff, and volunteers from infection
- Staff and volunteers need to ensure they maintain a clean and hygienic working environment
- Work to minimise transmitting infections
- Washing hands:
- Before work and when you leave work
- Before eating
- After using the toilet
- After coughing or sneezing
- Before and after carrying out personal care
- Safe disposal of clinical waste
- Contamination by blood, urine, saliva, or other bodily fluids
- Safe handling/ disposal of sharp articles
- Needles
- Soiled linens kept in designated laundry bags
- Cleaning all equipment to agreed standard
- Wearing PPE
- Control and disposal of substances harmful to health (COSHH)
- Hazardous waste must be disposed of properly
- Reporting and recording accidents and incidents (RIDDOR)
- A regulation that asks HSC professionals to report serious illnesses, diseases, and deaths
- Became law in 2013
- Less serious accidents and incidents also have to be recorded
- Accidents may not be reported because:
- Incident is not seen as important
- From too long
- More pressing duties
- May not know how
- Provision of first aid facilities
- Governed by health and safety regulations 1981
- Must be in place to include equipment and trained staff
- Complaints procedure
- A complaint is a statement that something is unsatisfactory or unacceptable
- All HSC settings must have a complaints procedure
- Protecting service users, staff, and volunteers from infection
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