P3: Using examples from work experience describe how policies and procedures promote health, safety and security in the health and social care workplace

Roles of the employee and employer

Being an employee and employer gives you a lot of roles to undertake and depending on which you are, you have more or less to do, in the table below, there are the roles in which the employer and employee have different and what they share.

Responsibility of the employers

Responsibility of the employee

Responsibilities of both employees and employers

The employer must plan for a safe environment. They have to have done a risk assessment.

To ensure they know how to use the machines in the establishment before they do use it.

To ensure the safety of the clients.

To provide health and safety information.

To work by the policies and procedure in place.

To ensure the safety of the environment.

To provide training for whom they employ in health and safety.

To report anything wrong with the machines or if the procedures aren't right.

To keep everything up to date.

Roles determine what you do in certain situations. You may have to deal with a hazard and other times you may just need to call your manager and let them deal with it.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities are more of what you have to do, if you are responsible for something it has to be done or it can have severe consequences. When working in a care setting it is imperative you know of your responsibilities.

Policies and procedure

Organisations