Office Safety

Reporting Incidents Safety Poster

Reporting Incidents Safety Poster We’ve just taken delivery of our new safety posters from the SAFETY TOOLSHED. WE were extremely impressed with the quality of the graphics and the thick glossy stock they are printed on. In a decent frame, they would not look out of place in an office environment or even the board [...]

Safety Poster Work Functions

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Safety Poster Work Functions New safety poster. Perfect timing for the pending “silly Season” see them all here: SAFETY TOOLSHED

New Office Safety Poster

Office Safety

New Office Safety Poster This new range of safety posters are simple, quirky and highly effective. See them all at the SAFETY TOOLSHED

Floor Cable Covers

cable covers

Floor Cable Covers – trip prevention and cable protection for hard floor surfaces and carpet One of my pet hates is exposed cabling running across floors. Its not only an eyesore but presents a number of safety hazards and risks. Here is a guide to selecting the best products and examples of a few of [...]

Cable Covers

cable covers

Floor Cable Covers – Trip and Fall prevention Nothing more embarrassing than running a safety training session and having someone trip over your power cords or data cables. Nothing more ugly and unprofessional looking as masking tape to prevent trips and falls on cables. We were involved in the early days of advising the [...]

Cable Covers and Protectors – Prevent Trips and Falls

cable covers

CABLE COVERS and PROTECTORS V COMMON SENSE Do you know the difference or understand the implications of choosing the wrong product and are they replacing good old fashioned common sense? Cable Covers are a Trip Prevention product, or personal safety product in that they are designed to reduce or at the very least, control any [...]

Ban Hand Sanitiser – its making us sick

Health and Safety

Ban Hand Sanitiser – its making us sick Every workplace I go into now has this stupid hand sanitiser everywhere! On everyone’s desks, in the staff room, at reception………. This product was introduced so that the use of the toxic DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE could be discontinued (we urge you to read about that substance and the [...]

Are your office plants a health and safety danger?

Air Quality

Article from one of our newest contributors in the UK – visit their site: http://whatishealthandsafety.co.uk/ Are your office plants a health and safety danger? We all like to give our office a bit of greenery with the help of a plant or two. It helps to brighten the place up and create a relaxing, [...]

Office Safety Tips

Ergonomic Assessment and Evaluation

Workplace Health and Safety in an Office environment Image Source These risks are sometimes taken for granted or not taken as seriously as say in mining or construction. However, given the number of people employed in these environments and the seriousness of some office injuries ie electrocution, stress, manual handling, ergonomics etc. Anyone who works [...]

Ergonomic Workstation Assessment

Ergonomic Assessment and Evaluation

Ergonomic Workstation Assessment Watch this space for a new resources to assist you to perform an ergonomic workstation assessment or evaluation. Over time, we will be providing free tools and ergonomic evaluation templates, checklists and information on how to properly set up your workstation including the benefits of saddle chairs and other ergonomic furniture. Need [...]

Office Safety Checklist

Checklists

Health and Safety Checklists for Office Environments Health and Safety Image from Cartoon Studio First published in 2001 and updated in 2006, Worksafe VIC’s "Officewise" – provides an excellent guide to health and safety in the office. It is a 100 page publication intended for use as as a resource for office managers, supervisors, safety [...]

Injury in the Office

Office Safety

Injury in the Office By Karla Ramirez Big and tall office workers have to worry about repetitive motion injuries even more than average size people do. This is because their bodies are more susceptible to the injuries common in the workplace even without the added stress of repetitive motion. This makes it even more [...]

Microwave Oven Safety Tips

Electrical Safety

This photo is from an article about a flat being destroyed by a microwave explosion. Read it here Microwave ovens are everywhere and we use them everyday without a second thought. However, if you have a communal oven such as in an office evironment or shopping centre parents room there are some risks you should [...]

Office Risk Assessment

Office Safety

[picappgallerysingle id="5282865"] Risk Assessment: Tips for Assessing Risks in an Office When discussing risk assessment, most risk is attributed to factories, mining, construction sites, and other high-risk work areas. However, risks exist in every single workplace, and risk assessment should be completed in even the lowest risk environments. Let’s look at risk assessment in offices. [...]

Laptop Computers Create a Safety Risk

Computer Safety

[picappgallerysingle id="7293571"] Just reading a recent article about long term injuries being caused by using a laptop computer as its name suggests. Excerpt: Working with a laptop sitting on your lap could be dangerous for your skin. Exposing skin to the high temperatures created by laptops can lead to “toasted skin syndrome,” warns a new [...]

Preventing Computer-Related Injuries

Ergonomics

Preventing Computer-Related Injuries If your employees spend a lot of time at their computers, they are subject to many work-related injuries. Computer users can suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome, eye fatigue, and back strains. To minimize risk to your employees, you could offer them the following free ergonomics tips: Position the monitor at or slightly [...]

Emergency Preparedness

Articles

Life is unfortunately filled with potential emergencies, and offices should be prepared with an emergency plan, including a trained emergency response team. Offering some employees free first aid classes and CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation), forming an emergency response team, and offering first aid tools could save one or many lives in an emergency situation. First [...]

Office Risk Assessment Tool

Office Safety

UK Health and Safety Executive have released a new online risk assessment tool that they claim will: “help cut back the time it takes to weigh up the hazards in offices to just 20 minutes”. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help employers to consider relevant hazards in their [...]

Office Safety Tips

Articles

Even though office work is thought to be some of the safest work available, office work can be straining. Office workers can suffer from carpal tunnel, muscle strains from uncomfortable working angles, and eye strain from poor illumination or lengthy exposure to computer screens. Many other hazards exist in the office workplace, including the following: [...]

Wonder Woman’s Guide to Office Safety

Office Safety

Wonder Woman's Guide to Office Safety

Whether you're dealing with a fire drill or a giant attacking squid, Wonder Woman's got tips that&#…

NAUGHTY WORKERS

Office Safety

NAUGHTY WORKERS

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Stress in the office ….

Office Safety

Stress in the office ….

How unmanaged stress can look in the workplace … we can help

Office Safety Lesson : don’t lean back on your chair !

Office Safety

Office Safety Lesson : don't lean back on your chair !

watch and learn and you could save your self some embarrassment.

Office Safety DVD – Safety training video for the office – Safetycare free preview

Office Safety

Office Safety DVD – Safety training video for the office – Safetycare free preview

This program has been produced to inform and educate on the safety…

Funny Office Safety Training Retro Video! Hilarious!! ‘You and Office Safety’ – Safetycare free prev

Office Safety

Funny Office Safety Training Retro Video! Hilarious!! 'You and Office Safety' – Safetycare free prev

You and Office Safety! is the most hilar…

Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls

Building Safety

Slips, trips and falls are a regular source of workplace injuries Are we creating an environment for possible slips, trips or falls without even knowing it? Have you ever: Run down a flight of stairs? Slips on snow or ice? Walked in the workplace while reading something, talking on a mobile phone? Worked in areas [...]

New Cable Covers – Trip and fall prevention

cable covers

Do you rely on masking tape or mistakenly use Cable Protectors as trip prevention devices in pedestrian environments? Cable Protectors are a load bearing device designed to protect cords and cables and have no minimum height or contrast requirements. They are not designed as or intended to be used as a trip prevention device. The [...]

Office Safety Checklist and Guide

Office Safety

How many people snigger or cringe when it is suggested that a safety inspection be done in an office? These environments may not immediately strike you as particularly hazardous but there are numerous potential risks in an office, many of which have caused serious short and long term injury at other workplaces. First published in [...]

Ironic Slice of Injustice

Office Safety

Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up: @ PRISON @ WORK You spend most of your time in a 10X10 cell @ PRISON You spend most of your time in an 6X6 cubicle @ WORK You get three meals a day, fully paid for @ PRISON You get a break for [...]

Do compression garments prevent sports injuries

Office Safety

All of the manufacturers and retailers of sports compression garments claim that their products help prevent sports related injuries. The benefits of wearing compression garments for preventing DVT are well documented but we could only find one article that provides any “scientist proof” of injury prevention - Recent article from the Australian Sports Commission (see [...]

Downside of sitting on our Backsides

Ergonomics

We recently wrote about the risk of DVT to Office workers. Here is a recent article from the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety Downside of Sitting on Our Backsides Risks of sitting too long Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, trips to the gym, lunch hour walks – the value of exercise is [...]

Pool Safety for Residential Apartments

Child Safety

This article covers recreation areas such as swimming pools, spas, gymnasiums, BBQ’s and playgrounds. Recreation facilities are an important part residential complexes, often used in marketing a property and often considered by prospective purchasers and guests. However, many of the more serious injuries and larger liability claims are as a result of incidents occurring in [...]

OHS Implementation Plan Example

Office Safety

OHS Implementation Plan This plan should be used in conjunction with other relevant OHS Policies and Procedures documents. In the OHS Policies and Procedures document there should be guidance notes (Why this is important and What to do) for implementing elements of an Occupational Health and Safety management system. There are a number of activities [...]

Safety Improvements In An Office Environment

Office Safety

MORE RISK MANAGEMENT CHECKLISTS Checklist and typical recommendations for an Office based business employing over 30 people (based on QLD WHS Legislation): Implement an OHS Management System to achieve compliance with QLD WHS Act, 1995, s.29 (d). Develop a plan with accountability and timelines as a means of managing safety within the workplace (AS4801 – [...]

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