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Health and Safety
Top 10 Tips to improve flu vaccine uptake in care home and home care staff
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)This year is not a typical year. On average, flu kills over 11,000 people each year and hospitalises many more....
Love your Bones Day – What to do to reduce your risk of falls?
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)Download our poster here, it tells you what you can do to reduce your risk of falls Download Now Did you know... ...
Food For Thought! – Kitchen Safety
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistIntroduction Now that the festive season is over and the pressure of the last few weeks to get all the extra...
What You Need To Know About The Safety Of Ionising Radiation
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistIntroduction In the social care sector, the most common use of ionising radiation is within hospitals and dentistry in the form...
How Safe Are Staff Vehicles For Residents’ Outings?
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistIntroduction Outings are part of resident activities, giving them supervised access to the world outside their home! Some care homes and...
Ladder Safety – Are You in Control?
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistIntroduction As Christmas fast approaches it's time to get the tree up and those Christmas decorations from the store room in...
First Aid Arrangements – Being Prepared
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistIntroduction From time to time accidents occur in the workplace regardless of environment. First Aid, as the name suggests, is that...
Health and Safety Risk Assessments – What do I Need to Record?
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistIntroduction Part of managing risk in Health and Social Care is having effective systems in place. Like all industries, none are...
Outdoor Health and Safety in Gardens and Patios – Are You in Control?
Dave Bennion Health and Safety SpecialistOutdoor Health and Safety - Introduction As the nights draw in and winter approaches, this is a busy time for maintenance...
The use of mobile phones at work – Part 2 of 2
Sally Beck QCS Expert Health and Safety ContributorIn the previous blog, we wrote about how the use of a mobile phone by a support worker resulted in...
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