Health, Safety And The Environment

It is my responsibility to take care of myself and other people affected by my work. To be responsible for correct use of products and equipment. In accordance with Health & Safety at work Act 1974.

Under the Health & Safety at work Act I have many responsibilities as an employee. These responsibilities must be obeyed in order to maintain a safe working area and minimize any potential hazards or risks to yourself or others. Some of my responsibilities as an employee are as followed:

The President's Task Force on Environmen-tal Health Risks and Safety Risks to Chil-dren was formed in 1997 by executive order. It consists of government officials from the EPA, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and others. One of its first projects was to formulate a plan to eliminate childhood lead poisoning, 42 a goal that was incorporated into the Healthy People 2010 goals for the nation. For the first time, the strategy concentrated on primary prevention and was directed at housing. It did not require that a lead-poisoned child first be identified before a house was considered eligible for participa-tion (the principle of primary prevention).

It needs to be made sure that there is a balance to ensure that the health and safety of a person is not put at risk and the independence of others is not restricted. Good standards of health and safety cannot be achieved without cooperation of employees.

Consulting with the existing staff will help to create relevant and achievable goals, and will also increase employee commitment towards achieving those goals. An example of a goal for current employees would be; ensuring that all information in each category of the training schedule is covered within the allotted time frame. Considering their involvement, consultation with employees will benefit the controlling function during implementation of the

To overcome the issue, Laman Grill has to measure overall employee activity and productivity. One of the ways to improved employees is a role model to other employee that can help in working environment. Furthermore, employees should be train multi tasks to help each other’s. Staff shortages won’t impact the restaurant environment if hostesses are trained as backup servers and kitchen workers are trained to do many tasks in

Unfortunately, I have not worked at a facility yet but I will try my best to answer the prompt. Aside from treating employees as family to create good ethical standards and reflect that on the restaurant, not all models were well implemented. This fast restaurant I used to work at lacked in distribution of authority, the manager really did not take the employees into account for making decisions. My former manager expected us to listen to his decisions and abide by them, it would have been better if he heard what we had to say before he had the last word and I bet the restaurant would have done better in economy and team

Stress in the workplace is becoming a major concern for employers, managers and government agencies, meaning the Occupational Health and Safety legislations are requiring employers to practice a ‘duty of care’ by providing employees with safe working environments which also cover the psychological well-being of their staff.

When a staff member is employed they will have a checklist when the begin work, to follow the plan to learn every aspect of the restaurant. Start with running meals, taking orders for 1-2 tables then working way up to 3-6, pass, table set-up and bookings. This will enable the correct trained staff to work at appropriate times and so that the restaurant is not understaffed or utilising undertrained staff.

Since there is such a large amount of food waste, where does it go? Although not all food waste ends up in landfills, there is a large amount that does. Studies show that “food wastage in 2007 represented the production of 1.4 billion hectares of land, equal to about 30 % of the world’s agricultural land area, and larger than the surface of Canada” (“Global Food Wastage”). With landfills taking up such a large percentage of land, there is less land for farmers, housing, and other resources. Landfills also give off multiple dangerous chemicals. For example, landfills give off greenhouse gases, dioxins, furans, and mercury (“Public Health, Safety, and the Environment”). Landfills are also a severe cause of deforestation. Also, landfills take

My health and social care setting is an under 5’s nursery, within my setting there may be many incidents or emergencies. There could be incidents within my setting such as bumping their heads, falling over, tripping over toys. An emergency within my setting could be things such as fires or severe injuries such as being knocked unconscious. In this assignment I will cover two incidents or emergencies, the ones I will be covering are actual and suspected abuse and exposure to infection.

Enterprises should protect the environment within the framework of environment laws in the countries in which they operate. They should not pollute the environment, public health and safety. In particular, enterprises should collect all the information about the environment where they operate and analysis the environment, safety and health impart due to their activity of operate. They need to make specific plan about how to improve the local environment performance and recycle the nature resources. And timely verification of progress of the plan of environmental performance. They need to make emergency plan to prepare and control the emergency situation that can damage from the operations. The enterprises should consider environmental imparts when they develop their product or services, such as reduce use of nature resource, reduce any greenhouse gas emissions and use recycled resource. And the employees also need to be train to protect the environment, including more general environmental knowledge, deal with toxic materials.

Humans are constantly interacting with the environment. As a result, maintaining a healthy environment is key to increasing quality of life and years of healthy life. Globally, nearly one-quarter of the global disease burden, and more than one-third of the burden among children, is due to modifiable environmental factors. (Prüss-Üstün, 2006). Environmental health hazards generally fall into one of three categories: physical, chemical, or biological. The impact an environmental hazard may have on the health of an individual can be greatly affected by the person’s genetics, life style, and their risk perceptions. The influence of poor environmental quality on health is greater in people whose health status is already at risk. Therefore,

Bartram, J., Lewis, K., Lentron, R. & Wright, A. (2005). Focusing on improved water and

The amount of overtime hours being worked in the United States has been increasing steadily for a number of decades. Consequently, concern regarding the influence of overtime and longer working hours on the health and safety of workers has grown amongst both members of the scientific community and the healthcare industry itself. There are many studies illustrating the adverse effects on the general health and wellbeing of workers resulting from frequent overtime shifts and extended working hours. Specifically, evidence of a relationship between long working hours and an increased risk of occupational injuries has been found repeatedly “among nurses, anesthetists, veterinarians, and other healthcare professionals” (Kirkcaldy, 1997). Despite this, there is still much to be discovered until researchers are able to fully understand the impact long working hours have on the health and safety of healthcare workers.