THE RELEVANCE OF SAFETY EDUCATION

Office Safety Tips Being aware of hazards in the workplace and learning office safety tips goes a long way toward preventing accidents. Basic Office Safety Tips Slips and falls are the most frequent cause of workplace injuries and people working in an office are twice as likely to be injured by falling than people who are working in other types of workplaces. Some Common Sense Use basic common sense in your daily comportment around the office. Here are some basic tips: ·          Sit upright in your chair, with your feet touching the floor when you're working at your desk. Before sitting down, look to make sure your chair is beneath you and hasn't rolled away. ·          Look where you're going whenever you're walking around the office. ·          If you've got to carry anything from one place to another, don't stack things up so high that you can't see directly in front of you. ·          Walk, don't run. ·        

BEYOND COMPUTERS . Most office workers usually spend one-third of their day in front of a computer.                                                                                                                                                                 When such a person stays in a fixed position for a long time, the individual experiences fatigue, eyestrain and low back pains. These three listed bodily pains are referred to as work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are associated with workstations and work done on the computer. This is the more reason one has to look beyond just considering the computer in terms of one’s workstation. Here are some tips on how to make your workstation less prone to WMSDs: 1.        Consider the entire workstation and not just your chair, look at the seating.                                                                                                                                  

Safety Awareness Safety Awareness is like almost everything else we do . . . it is learned, not instinctive. We aren’t born with awareness for safety concerns . . . in fact anyone who has a young toddler or grandchild knows this first hand as they see them going around doing unsafe things constantly. We learn through various means. Some learn by doing, others by watching, some by reading. Others learn by their mistakes or the mistakes of others which is one reason we talk about near misses and direct incidents and also emphasize that both be reported by staff that were involved or were eye witneses to these kinds of incidents. So how do you know you have developed good safety awareness? Here are some good examples of behaviours that suggest you have good safety awareness: 1.       Before you begin a job, you consider how to do it more safely 2.       You ensure you know how and when to use personal protective equipment if your job task exposes you to inherent hazards

HAZARD AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOU. Hello friend, I want to first of all congratulate you on your successful entry into February. We will be going through something that is very relevant to your work and even your surrounding. WHAT IS A HAZARD? This is anything that has the potential of causing human injury or illness. It could be an object say a knife or scissors,stapler for instance.It could also be the state of mind of a worker if he is being distracted while at work and not giving his or her best on the job or an unsafe condition that has been put in place by someone. Another example is say for instance, you spill oil while working in the kitchen and because you are in a hurry, you leave it and you don't clean it up. Anybody that enters into that environment could slip and fall down and sustain some injury.  It is very important for you to be able to identify potential hazards in your surroundings especially where you work because that is where you spend most of your time