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P1- Explain potential hazards in health and social care This assignment is going to look at hazards in the working environment. Hazards A hazard is a source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone under certain conditions at work. A hazard has three modes: Dormant (there are no people around; there is no risk), armed (there is a person or people in the vicinity; there is risk), active (human reaction time is too slow to combat the effect of the hazard; it is too late to prevent the consequences of the hazard). A hazard can cause harm or adverse effects (to individuals as heath effects or to organisations as property or equipment losses). Sometimes a hazard is referred to as being the actual harm or the health affect it caused rather than the hazard. For example, the disease tuberculosis (TB) might be called a hazard by some but...

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