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Personal Care

Personal care refers to anything that is done for yourself. This could involve personal duties like bathing, showering, applying creams and lotions, dressing, and toileting, as well as continence management¹ and regular laundry, all done in the privacy of your own home.

Employer must:

Ensure safe place of work

Provide safe equipment

Provide information, training, instruction & supervision.

Employee:

Has a duty to take reasonable care of their own health & safety

Has a duty of care to other employees, clients, visitors, etc

Must co-operate with the employer in performing duties under the act and report any concerns.

Our Occupational Health and Safety advisors can guide you through the relevant Health and Safety legislation to your business and can introduce practiced systems to help companies meet the necessary requirements.

We work with companies on a long or short-term basis advising on how best to proceed to ensure changes are implemented and regularly reviewed.

Within an initial workplace gap analysis, the following areas are reviewed (if applicable):

General Safety Requirements
Safety Management Systems
Risk Assessments
COSHH Assessments
Asbestos
Maintenance
Training
Emergency Equipment and Procedures
First Aid
Welfare

Noise
Working at Height
Site Traffic
Company Vehicles
Meeting the Public
Confined Space
Accident/Incident Investigation
Lone Workers
Personal Protection Equipment
Display Screen Equipment

Can you answer No to any of these questions?

	Yes	No
Do you comply with H&S at Work Act and Management of H&S Regs?
Do you have a Safety Management System?
Do you have Risk Assessments?
Do you have COSHH assessments?
Is all your equipment tested & maintained?
Do you have Fire and other emergency procedures?
Do all your staff have basic safety awareness training?
Do you have Risk Assessments in place and do you review them regularly?