We have different uses of
risk assessment in health and social care settings including food safety, fire
safety, moving and handling, medication management, nutritional and
environmental. These risk assessment processes must be carried out agreed ways,
using person centred values which support individual’s choices. If we carry out
risk assessment person centred way, then individual and family members will be
involved in procedures, which can help individual to support their own choices.
Agreed risk assessment processes not only support to identify and eliminate
risk but also promote and support individual’s choices. It is very important
that an individual must not be deprived of their choices due to risk assessment
and legislations. If agreed risk assessment processes do not support
individual’s choices then it can fall under the standard and can become
safeguarding issue.
