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Your Work Life & Risk Assessments

Your Work Life & Risk Assessments. Nessie Brooks Staff Care Services 01732 526910. ME. All decisions based on risk assessment Life or death History of the ‘hazard’ Outcome effect Managing consequences Response from OH……….

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Your Work Life & Risk Assessments

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  1. Your Work Life & Risk Assessments Nessie Brooks Staff Care Services 01732 526910

  2. ME • All decisions based on risk assessment • Life or death • History of the ‘hazard’ • Outcome effect • Managing consequences • Response from OH………

  3. Aim – Is to agree Risk Assessments are on-going throughout your working life

  4. Outline • Stages in your working life • Risk Assessments - rationale • Employment Assessments • Pressure at work • Aging Population

  5. Starting Out

  6. Good Work is Good for you

  7. That’s only the case if there is a reasonable fit between individual capability and the nature of the work Assessing the Risk is not Rocket Science!

  8. Employment Screening • Health Questionnaire - confidential • Advise on Workplace adjustments – • A2W • Managers’ decision to implement – • Costs • Effectiveness • Practicability • Effect on others

  9. The Happy Workforce

  10. The Manager Caring for your staff

  11. What Risk Assessments?

  12. A main cause of sickness absence (KCC) • Mental Health

  13. Managing Pressure • Know the difference between Mental Health and Mental Illness • There are NO stress Regulations • The Management Regulations 1999 impose a duty to perform a risk assessment

  14. Managing Pressure • Valuing people for what they do • Recognising the workplace is a shared environment – we all have responsibility • Most people appreciate some sense of control • Most problems can be dealt with • When bigger problems occur they are managed on the basis of their impact.

  15. Legal Bit • The claimant must prove psychiatric damage • Unless the employer knows of some particular problem or vulnerability an employer is usually entitled to assume that the employee can stand the normal pressures of the job. • The employer is only liable if he could have ‘reasonably foreseen’ that the employee was being made ill by the stresses of the job and failed to take ‘reasonable’ care to assist - by….

  16. Adjustments • Reducing workload • Providing assistance • Disciplining a bullying manager • Arranging treatment or counselling

  17. The Aging Population

  18. The Aging Population • There are now 17,000 people with early onset dementia (onset before 65) in the UK. (comparatively rare) • Mostly Females

  19. The Aging Population • Signs & Symptoms (some) • Ability to acquire and remember new information • Reasoning and handling of complex tasks • Poor judgement • Visuospatial abilities • Language function • Changes in personality and behaviour • Impaired activities of daily living

  20. The Aging Population • Workplace Adjustments • Reduce complexity • Avoid Risk • Reduce pressure (stress) • Work under supervision

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