Although office workers are not exposed to as great a risk as industrial workers, there are certain health and safety risks in the office that can lead to ill health, injuries and accidents.Office workers are exposed to risks such as working with Display Screen Equipment, Manual Handling and injuries due to slipping, tripping and falling.
Carelessness and neglect cause majority of office accidents and ill health. People assume that the office is a safe place and do not seriously consider the effects of their actions. Many of these injuries and ill health could be avoided by making office workers aware of the health and safety hazards in the office and by reducing the risk of exposure to the main risks.
There are many pieces of legislation in place to protect people while at work. These place certain duties on employers and employees. Safety applications for office safety and health are addressed through regulations listed below to the office environment:
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974;
Management of Health and Safety at Work regulations 1992;
Display Screen Equipment regulation 1992;
Work Place Regulations 1992;
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992;
Manual Handling Operations regulations 1992;;
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989;
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 1988;
First Aid Regulations 1981;
Fire Precaution Act 1971;
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have been chosen from the Word Processing Teacher to be the monthly SAFETY INSPECTOR. Your job will be to educate and inform all of the students here at Montgomery Co. ATC of safety policies, rules and procedures.
One of your first tasks will be to reasearch safety procedures/protocol in the office setting. You will be preparing an educational Office Safety two page report using MLA style writing and reference citing. You will be responsible for creating a test and answer key on Office Safety. You will also be creating three different informational safety flyers on the following topics:
1. General Safety
2. Classroom Safety
3. Office/Employee Safety
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have been chosen from the Word Processing Teacher to be the monthly SAFETY INSPECTOR. Your job will be to educate and inform all of the students here at Montgomery Co. ATC of safety policies, rules and procedures.
One of your first tasks will be to reasearch safety procedures/protocol in the office setting. You will be preparing an educational Office Safety two page report using MLA style writing and reference citing. You will be responsible for creating a test and answer key on Office Safety. You will also be creating three different informational safety flyers on the following topics:
1. General Safety
2. Classroom Safety
3. Office/Employee Safety
You will be working with a "safety committee" of two other people from your classroom. You may use appropriate clipart for your flyers. Keep in mind that no more that two fonts should be used on this document. You may however utilize other font features such as bold, underline, italics, etc. Take advantage of various point sizes and colors to bring special attention to important features.
You may use the links below to assist you with this project. In addition, please find at least two other cites which is helpful in discovering safety issues in the office setting.
http://oregonstate.edu/ehs/bulletin/si51.pps#1
http://www.safetyworld.com/topics/office.htm
http://www.leon.k12.fl.us/Public/RiskMgmt/EmployeeSafetyRules.htm
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