LO1 – Understand how health and safety legislation and regulations affect a business

working environment

P1/M1/D1

Explain the legal The employees of any organization are supposed to face several
requirements and kinds of risk in the workplace. Considering this fact, the government
regulations for of the UK has introduced some of the important legislations to hedge
ensuring the health, those risks segments. These legal requirements along with the
safety, and security of regulations are described below.
those employed in
“The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
business
1999” is such a regulation that plays very important role in the case
of minimizing the risk portion of the business. It is required to
collect all the documents related to the risk assessment in a proper
manner as per the given legislation (Grammeno, 2013). The security
documents are required to be arranged and the safety issues are
mandatory to be observed by appointing skilled employees. The firm
should disseminate the safety-related information to the employees
along with the proper training session.
The Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 is such an act that
works as the main legislation in terms of health and safety in the
UK. The employers are bound to ascertain the health and safety
issues in case of the workplace. It is required to maintain all the
machines, equipment to eradicate the danger for the employees. The
adequate space should be ensured in case of the safety in the
workplace. The records regarding the health and safety issues should
be kept as per the given act. The Proper training session should be
arranged in this regard.
The Workplace, (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulations 1992
is the regulation that is focused on the overall environment of the
workplace. It is required to maintain the safety of the building. The
ventilation, as well as the lighting systems, should be sufficient in
this regard. Pure drinking water should be supplied to the
employees. Some of the essentials like first aid boxes, cleanliness
 should be maintained (Mendeloff, 2011).
Food Safety Act 1990 has been introduced for ensuring the food
safety within the workplace. All the elements of the food that can be
responsible for the contamination of the food should be avoided by
the company. The firms should ensure the notorious values of the
foods. The safety measures taken by the firm in case of preparing the
food should be audited as per the act. The quality of the food items
should be ensured by the organization.
Analyse the effect of Bupa has been selected as the organization on which the effect of
health and safety the health and safety legislation will be analysed. Bupa has such a
legislation and business working environment where all the legislation will be
regulations on a given applicable.
business working
By the inclusion of the “The Management of Health and Safety at
environment
Work Regulations 1999” in Bupa, the employees of Bupa will be
motivated and that is why the employees turnover of the
employees can be reduced in Bupa. That is how Bupa can
accumulate the experience of the employees (Harris, 2011). If the
health and safety management issues are properly controlled, the
services receivers will be motivated to come to the Bupa.

The deprivation of the employees can be protected by the help of

the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974. The employees of
the Bupa have got the legal ground to take legal actions against
Bupa if Bupa does not maintain the health and safety issues. Bupa is
bound to do the risk assessment of the employees and take
corrective actions to minimize the degree of risks.
The absenteeism of the employees can be reduced by the help of the
Workplace, (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. The
welfare issues will help Bupa to motivate the employees towards
gaining the organizational goal of Bupa. The workplace has been
more comfortable for the introduction of such legislation. The
injuries among the employees of the Bupa have been reduced
dramatically by the help of the given act.
 Food Safety Act 1990 will help Bupa to maintain the nutritious
values and the act will be helpful in case of maintaining the safety
environment in Bupa. Bupa has been able to maintain the
restrictions of the law.

Evaluate the need for Bupa has the great need of the health and safety legislation in the
health and safety workplace.
legislation and
Bupa will be able to create the safety workplace due to following
regulations for a
the legislation. Bupa will be able to assess the risks of the
given business
employees and take corrective actions. Bupa will be able to reduce
working environment
the absenteeism and employee turnover from Bupa. Bupa will be
able to create comfortable as well as safety workplace. Bupa can
maintain the nutritious value of the food. Bupa can minimize the
business loss by the help of this legislation. Bupa will have
protection against the most valuable assets. Bupa can minimize the
chance to avoid all the potential conflicts by the efficient
workforce. The productivity of the Bupa will be increased by the
given legislations (Friend, 2012).

LO2 – Know the requirements for healthy, safe and productive working conditions

For this outcome, you need to research a business of your choice and work through the
questions below

P2/M2

Business Name Bupa

What type of business Bupa is one kind of international medical Centre that is located in
is this? London. The range of service Bupa used to prove is the primary and
secondary health care service. It has been providing special service
to the outpatients. Bupa arranges mobile free medical camp each
year. It is a limited company. more than 80000 employees work in
 Bupa

What sector is this Bupa is such a business that has been doing its activities in Medical
business in? and Health Care Sector. The medical and health care sector is the
most promising sector in the UK having the growth rate over 7%
each year. The 2.5 million of 85 years old people come to the sector
for the medical service. That is why Bupa has the chance to expand
its business to worldwide.

Describe the The responsibility of Bupa is to ensure the healthy and safe
requirements for a workplace in case of the health, safety as well as welfare
healthy and safe requirements that are considered to be the part of the physical
workplace, as applied requirements.
to the physical
Health requirements for Bupa in working environment
environment and
equipment used Bupa should have effective ventilation systems that will ensure the
flow of air in the interior of Bupa to be supportive for the patients.
Bupa should make sure the equilibrium temperature. The building
of Bupa should have proper lighting systems to evade the darkness.
Sufficient room space should be allocated in each of the room and
the decoration of each of the room should be innovative (The
Health Hazard Evaluation Program at NIOSH, 2014).

Safety requirements for Bupa in working environment

There are various aspects for which Bupa has to abide by the safety
requirements to avoid all kinds of potential threats and loss. Bupa
has to recruit experienced and skilled staffs for the purpose of
ensuring the maintenance activities. The floors are required to be
kept always clean. All the sections of the Bupa should have
transparent glasses to observe the activities. Bupa should arrange
lifts and escalator for the purpose of benefit of the service users.
Bupa should have emergency exit systems by implementing by
moving gateways.
 Welfare requirements for Bupa in working environment

Bupa has to abide by the welfare requirements for the purpose of

keeping all the employees motivated to the Bupa. All the equipment
of the Bupa should be free from germ and technology should be
used for this purpose. The sanitary conveniences should be ensured
by Bupa. the pure drinking water is required to be supplied
(Stranks, 2016). The common room should be provided for the
female patients for the purpose of breastfeeding for the children.
Bupa should implement a lounge for taking rests for the doctors.

Analyse the The healthy and safe working conditions play very important roles
importance of healthy in case of the productive working conditions of Bupa.
and safe working
Bupa can maintain a better standard of working with the help of
conditions in
the healthy and safe working conditions that will be useful for the
promoting productive
generalization of the working policies. It is assumed that the Bupa
working conditions
will be able to reduce the business cost at least by 8% by the help
of the reduction in case of the disruption. The safety and healthy
working policies can be helpful in case of increasing the brand
value as well as the goodwill of Bupa and that is responsible for
increasing the market value of Bupa. The conditions will improve
the safety environment of Bupa as well as keep the valuable
patients of Bupa. The valuable assets can get protected by the safe
working conditions (Stahl, 2012). The health and safe working
conditions may reduce the working injuries of the common
employed that is why the absenteeism of the employees will be
reduced at the same time. At the same time, Bupa can get rid of
different legal procedures with the help of these conditions. Bupa
may witness the reduction in the employee turnover.

LO3 – Understand the role and responsibilities of key personnel

P3
Explain the health and Bupa, as the social and health care organization, must have to carry
safety responsibilities out some of the responsibilities. First of all, Bupa is supposed to
of employers assess the risk and give weight to each of the criteria. Bupa has the
responsibility to explain all the health and safety issues available to
service users of Bupa. Bupa is supposed to deal with the employees
about the health and safety issues. Bupa is supposed to bear all the
cost regarding the training session.

Bupa is supposed to adapt all the working policies. Bupa has to

implement health and social policies to the employees. Other aid
services should provide other aid conveniences like insurance
policies, health, and safety policies etc. Bupa has to recruit
experienced and skilled staffs for the purpose of ensuring the
maintenance activities. The floors are required to be kept always
clean. Bupa should arrange lifts and escalator for the purpose of
benefit of the service nurses.

Explain the health and The employees must have to carry out some of the responsibilities to
safety responsibilities the Bupa the employees should try to achieve the organizational
of employees goal of Bupa. The employees should be persistent in terms of
increasing the employability skills. The budget should be allocated
to the employees. The employees of Bupa should abide by the
instruction of Bupa. The employees should abide by the
instructions and policies of Bupa.

Describe 3 key roles Facilities and operation manager

in an organization that
The working conditions should be observed by Bupa in terms of
have health and safety
playing the facilities and operation manager job role. The policies
responsibilities
taken by the facilities and operation manager should bring benefit to
the employees. The budget allocation is the key responsibilities of
facilities and operation manager.

Human resource director

HR directors should make decisions based on the participation of

 the other employees. The working policies should be upgraded by
the HR director. The HR director should motivate the employees to
bring the success of the Bupa.

Health and safety officers

The health and safety officers should bring favorable safety

policies for the Bupa. The safety environment in the workplace
should be ensured. The policies should be free of all kinds of
conflict of interest (Mendeloff, 2011).

Select an organization you are familiar with and answer the questions below

Who are they key Bupa is such a health care service providing organization that has
people in this been engaged in the operation run by the key people. The key people
organization are those individuals who run the organization. Doctors, nurses, HR
responsible for health directors are the key people of Bupa.
and safety?

Describe their roles

The main job role of the doctors is the service provider role. The
and responsibilities
main responsibility of the doctors is to provide medical service to
the service users, to maintain good behavior to the patients and
to be supportive to all of the employees of the organization
(Grammeno, 2013).

The main job role of the nurses is the service assistant. The main
responsibilities of the nurses are to abide by the instruction of the
doctors, to take care of the patient and to behave in a friendly
way with the patient.

The key role of the HR directors is the decision maker. The

directors should implement those policies so that the rights of the
employees remain upheld. The main responsibility of the
directors to issues the organizational policies in favor of the
 employees of the Bupa (Health and safety legislation, 2016).

LO4- Be able to assess and manage risk

P4/M3

Design and create your own risk assessment form for an office work environment

Carry out a risk assessment using the form you have created

Bupa is a globally recognized healthcare organization and it has been in a position to assess the
risk of the Bupa in terms of various aspects. The main threat for Bupa is the medical reactions
and the service users are in the danger one of having the comical reactions. Bupa has already
taken the initiatives to follow up the advice of the doctors. Bupa has further planned to recruit
more professionals in Bupa. The physical injuries risk of Bupa can be mitigated by the help of
proper training session along. Bupa will have to arrange more training session for the employees
to remove the physical injuries. Good housekeepers have been deployed by Bupa to avoid the
risk of slips, trips, and falls. Bupa has further planned to arrange training for the housekeepers
in the near future. The fire safety is required for all the employees and other staffs of Bupa.
Bupa has taken steps to form the fire service units and has taken initiatives to use automatic fire
distinguisher from in the Bupa (Risk assessment - roles and responsibilities, 2013).

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