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 t...

BEYOND COMPUTERS . Most office workers usually spend one-third of their day in front of a computer.                                                                                                                                                      ...

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 equi...

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 t...

SAFE WORK HABITS In most of the things we do while at work or even at home, we find a way to make the process go easier and faster. These processes we develop become work habits and are used not only at work but in our everyday activities as well. We can become so used to a process or embarking on a task that we might overlook the underlying factors that can cause injury. Some say it takes 21 days of continual discipling and reminding yourself to develop a habit. Some of us have very good habits; some of us could use a little work. Let's look at a few tasks: (1) Do you fasten your seatbelt everytime you enter a car?                                             (2) Do you confirm the power is truly disconnected after you lockout a machine?    ...

ARE YOU SAFE? When you woke up this morning, maybe you mumbled some few prayers talking to God and probably went to take a bath and jumped with your suitcase or for some of us, a bagpack strapped to your back like a mother carrying her three year-old son before you rushed out of the house.   The hustle and bustle of another day starts, you enter a public bus and join the traffic all in the quest of meeting up with time inorder to get to work early. But did you caution the driver not to overspeed and overtake other vehicles because you do not want to get late to work.   At all times, we need to be safety conscious anywhere we find ourselves. Some drivers are even fond of answering a phone call which comes in while driving, this is very very dangerous.   People always like multi-tasking to the detriment of their lives.The ideal thing is to either ignore the call or better still park your car and then answer the phone call. The phone call can wait and one can d...

THE BENEFITS OF BEHAVIOUR-BASED SAFETY TO ORGANIZATIONS Behaviour -based safety combines the aspects of behavioural science with industrial safety in order to create a   ”new”   process to promote safety in the workplace. Research has indicated that as safe behaviours rise, safety incidents reduce.  FOUR COMPONENTS OF BBS.                                                                                                             ...