extra things for unit 6

1.2

Luckily for me, working in an office doesn’t pose a massive amount of hazards and risks. However, anywhere can be dangerous, if you aren’t familiar with basic health and safety. For example, if the water cooler runs out of liquid and the container needs replacing, changing it is an easy task, but if you aren’t familiar with how to safely lift heavy objects, it’s the process could damage your back. Another example would be using a shredder. Even with all the safety precautions built in to them now days, if misused they could still seriously hurt someone. So make sure you think twice before unjamming it by clearing the block with your fingers.

2.1

When you sign your health and safety contract, you are giving yourself a responsibility. You are promising to follow the health and safety conduct, which is individual to each company, and at my work covers everything from not drinking a cup of tea over a computer to not using untested electrical items in the workplace. abiding to this document is essential, if you do not the company has every right to, and probably will, fire you for putting yourself and others at risk.

2.2

If, for example you find a crack in the ceiling, it should be reported straight away, but if it’s so bad that pieces of plaster are falling onto people, the area should be sectioned off and the relevant people should be called right away. In this case a plasterer or a builder would be the best people to get into touch with.

3.2

An unsafe practice I have come across in my workplace, and it is something that most people there do unintentionally, is not stretching and relieving their eyes. Aside from it being in the contract, it is common knowledge that if you work in an office, or indeed any place that requires you to sit in one place for long periods of time in front of a screen, it can be very dangerous and dangerous for your back and eyes, both from bad posture and sitting in front of a screen with out breaks.