Chapter 20: Occupational Health and Safety
Overview:
- Identifies potential hazards and risks in aged‐care facilities
- Provides solutions for the avoidance of potentially harmful incidents
Description:
The management of occupational health and safety requires constant attention in all industries and workplaces. Elderly people are highly vulnerable to hazards and risks because they are often unable to protect themselves. Aged‐care nurses therefore must be responsible for safety issues within their own workplaces to protect themselves and those within their care.
Topics:
- Introduction
- Self-regulation
- Components of a safety-management system
- Assigning members to a safety committee
- Deciding on the committee structure
- Developing the terms of reference
- Developing committee meeting rules
- Holding regular and frequent meetings
- Formulating policies, procedures, and protocols
- Collecting and collating data
- Discussing and debating issues raised at meetings
- Evaluating outcomes
- Undertaking statistical analyses
- Documenting all information
- Adhering to reporting mechanisms
- Hazards and risks
- Accidents and incidents
- Emergency systems
- Conclusion
Speaker / Author:
Sue Forster
Sue Forster completed her general nurse training in the Queen Alexandra Royal Naval Nursing Service in the UK and abroad. She has extensive clinical, educational, and managerial experience at senior levels gained from a long nursing career in Europe, Australia, and Africa. For the past ten years Sue has managed her own educational consultancy business. Her special interests include gerontic care, continuous quality improvement, and human resource management. Sue is dedicated to the education and empowerment of her nursing colleagues through the provision of sound evidence‐based practice within a holistic framework of quality care.
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