Regulatory And Regulatory Services

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Introduction

What are regulatory and advisory bodies? Many people cannot understand the difference between these two bodies. These two different groups of people exist across the world and form part of everyday life as they have such an important role in organisations that provide services like medical rescue. This is why it is important to know what is meant when talking about one of these groups.

Regulatory bodies
What is a regulatory body?

What are regulatory bodies? Regulatory bodies are comprised of a group of people that set the standards for certain thing and these standards are seen as the law. A regulatory body sole function is to protect the public. It does this by implementing standards, requirements and restrictions in relation to any activity regarding safety. They also ensure the enforcement and compliance of these standards.
These standards must be met in the specific field standards are set for. There are many different regulatory bodies that set standards for the different fields of work, but the most common regulatory bodies for the emergency medical care setting is the HPCSA or Health Professions Council of South Africa, OSHA or Occupational Safety and Hazards association, NFPA and the Western Cape Government.

Vision of a regulatory body?

Most regulatory bodies have the same vision they strive for in their line of work. The vision for regulatory bodies for Emergency Medical Services are to enhance the quality of health by developing strategic policy frameworks for proper co-ordination and setting proper healthcare standards. With this goes the mission of most regulatory bodies in the EMS system. This mission is “Quality healthcare standards for all.” To be more specific, the mi...

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... on a particular product deeming it fit for use. They can advise ways in which to maintain the product but the actually maintenance of the product is the owner’s responsibility (Anon., 2010).

Training

Each regulatory body has a different way of training people to join them or even just train people on how to follow their standards. The NFPA for example has a conference and an expo each year, online seminars, seminars, online courses, events, training videos and also scholarships and grants. OSHA has different training courses as well. They can train people to become Occupational Health and Safety workers in all different fields of rescue and services delivered. This requires a prerequisite of about 3-5 years of work in that specific field and that they should come back every 4 years for the training course to keep up to date with standards and codes (OSHA, 2014).

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