Hazard: anything that can cause harm (e.g. chemicals, electricity, moving and handling service users).
Most hazards need managing immediately.

Reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences in health and social care (2013) RIDDOR requires employers and others to report deaths, certain types of injury, some occupational diseases and dangerous occurrences that ‘arise out of or in connection with work’. Generally, this covers incidents where the work activities, equipment or environment (including how work is carried out, organised or supervised) contributed In some way to the circumstances of the accident.
Reports for RIDDOR alert the enforcing authorities to incidents and helps them to decide whether they are serious enough to investigate. Reports enable HSE or local authorities (the ‘enforcing authorities’) to identify where and how health and safety risks arise
REPORTABLE
A patient hoist collapses or overturns.
A laboratory worker spills a sufficient quantity of formaldehyde from a container to cause damage to the health of a worker or others present.
A container of a TB culture is broken and releases its contents.
A cleaner suffers a needle stick injury from a syringe known to contain hepatitis B blood.
NON- REPORTABLE
An older woman with Dementia wanders out of a care home into the car park or main road.

A RISK
Risk: the chance, high or low, that somebody will be harmed by the hazard.
How many different levels of risk can you identify?
TASK 1
P1 Identify potential hazards that might arise in Health and Social Care environments Identify the hazards in the following 3 Health and Social Care environments.

P2: Outline the main features of current health and safety legislation as applied in Health and Social Care
Legislation and guidelines: What is legislation?
Why is legislation needed to guide health and safety in the workplace?
The main act relating to health and safety at work is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSW Act).This lays out general duties of employers, the self-employed, people in control of premises and employees.
The HSW Act is the umbrella legislation under which other regulations are made. These regulations usually relate to specific activities such as the management of health and safety, safety of machinery, the workplace environment