A-Z of health and social care

A

Asthma and healthcare

B

• Bariatric patient handling (Research Report RR573)
• Bed rails
• Birthing pools
• Burns (see Scalding and burning)

C

• Care Quality Commission (CQC) / HSE Memorandum of Understanding
• Care Homes (Health and Safety in Care Homes, HSE booklet HSG220)
• Challenging behaviour
• Clinical waste
• Construction safety
• Cytotoxic drugs

D

• Dermatitis
• Diathermy
• Direct payments and local authorities
• Domiciliary care

E

• Electric profiling beds
• Electrical safety
• Equipment safety
• Enforcement (See Notices and/or Prosecutions in health and social care)

F

• Falls from windows and balconies
• FAQs

G

Gas safety

H

• Health, Safety and Wellbeing and Partnership Group (HSWPG) - Workplace Health and Safety Standards
• Health and social care
• Hoisting

I

• Infections at work (healthcare)
• Ionising radiation

L

• Laboratories
• Latex allergy
• Leadership (HSE leaflet INDG417)
• Legionella in hot and cold water systems
• Lifting operations and lifting equipment

M

• Managing health and safety
• Migrant workers
• Moving and handling

N

• Needlestick injuries
• Using nitrous oxide (gas and air) safely

P

• Pneumatic air tube transport systems
• Prosecutions in health and social care
• Publications

R

• Radiation
• Regulators in health and social care
• Reporting injuries/RIDDOR
• Respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and fit testing

S

• Safety alertsm
• Scalding and burning
• Scotland 'Care Inspectorate' / HSE / LA Protocol
• Sensible risk assessment
• Sharps injuries
• Slips and trips
• Sonography
• Stress (see also Workplace Health and Safety Standards)
• Stress in hospital staff (Research Report CRR 435/2002)
• Surgical smoke

T

Transport (workplace)

U

Using contractors: A brief guide

V

Violence and aggression

W

• Waste
• Windows (falls from windows and balconies)
• Workplace Health and Safety Standards