office safety

Health Benefits of an Ergonomic Office

Health Benefits of an Ergonomic Office Guest post Save money and live better by making your office a healthier place to work If you work 40 hours a week throughout your adult life, you’ll spend about 10% of your life at the office. That’s why it’s so important to make sure your workspace is a [...]

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 Technorati Tags: office safety, safety posters

The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system

Safety Management Plan

Another article by legendary Safety Guru, George Robotham (www.ohschange.com.au). You can find more of his work at here: SAFETY REFLECTIONS George’s Safety Reflections-Number 6 The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system Have well developed internal standards of OHS excellence. Define what excellence in implementation of the standards will look like. Train [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]