OFFICE SAFETY

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OFFICE SAFETY
Courtesy of Safety and Environmental Management
Office
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What Can Go Wrong In An Office?

• Statistics
• absences
• sickness
• conflict
• Injuries
• physical
• psychological
• illnesses diseases

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Types of Hazards

• Basic Hazard Categories
• Physical
• Chemical
• Ergonomic
• Psychological
• Radiation
• Biological
• Risk Assessment

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Office Machinery

• Electricity
• cords, cables electrical hazards
• Photocopiers
• toner, developer, noise, ozone, light,
• Printers
• noise, inks, ozone (laser)
• Computers - VDUs
• eyestrain, posture, radiation?
• Typewriters

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Manual Handling

• Statistics
• injuries
• costs
• Office Equipment Furniture
• Stationery Supplies
• Correct Lifting Techniques
• Twisting Bending
• Mechnical Aids
• Teamwork Lifting

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Office Ergonomics

• Office Equipment
• workstations, chairs, keyboards
• Placement of Equipment
• strains, sprains O.O.S.
• Posture
• height distance of equipment
• periods of sitting standing
• Breaks Exercises
• 5-10 minutes per hour suggested

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Electrical Safety

• What is Electrical Equipment?
• Injuries
• Types
• Testing Tagging
• Frequency
• Contractors
• Reporting Faults
• how? to whom? when?

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Contaminated Air

• Stale air
• CO2
• Heat
• Humidity
• Ozone
• Smoking

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Noise - In Here - Pardon?

• What is noise?
• Legal limits - 85dB(A)
• Control strategies
• elimination
• engineering
• separating
• enclosed
• administration
• staff rotation, timings

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Lighting Glare

• How do you Know?
• headache?
• fatigue?
• eyestrain?
• nausea?
• Testing
• who? how? when?
• Benefits
• reduced absenteeism, reduced sickies

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Housekeeping

• What is Housekeeping?
• cleanliness, tidiness, maintenance
• taking care of your work area
• good housekeeping calls for constant care
• Benefits of Good Housekeeping
• safer, easier, better, more fun
• Advantages of Good Housekeeping
• less tiring, more space, less aggravating, more
  business-like
• Part of YOUR Job

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Slips, Trips Falls

• General Housekeeping
• Cupboards, Cabinets Carpets
• Cords, Cables Wires
• Telephone outlets
• Personal Belongings
• Furniture
• Fluids Floor Surfaces

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Office Chemicals

• Cleaning Agents
• Toners Developers
• Inks, Cleansers,
• Solvents
• Paints

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Fire Safety in the Office

• Emergency Control Organisation?
• Appropriate Equipment?
• alarms, extinguishers, hoses, detectors
• Know where to go? How?
• Raising the Alarm?
• Training?
• Visitors, Clients, Public?