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Posted By Eamon Murtagh
I am looking for information relating to the best location for a photocopiers.
Eamon
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Eamon
What does your supplier say?
Paul
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Posted By Frank Hallett
Hi Eamon
Once you've sorted out the manufacturers recommendations you will need to consider the ergonomic issues of routine use, access for paperloading, cartridge changing and maintenance as well as any additional loads on services such as air-conditioning and humidity control.
After that, consider your fire risk assessment and emergency response to fires etc.
Frank Hallett
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Posted By J Knight
Hi,
As Frank almost says, photocopiers are a minor fire hazard, and should not be on a fire escape route or between workers and a fire exit,
John
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Posted By Frank Hallett
Thanks for expanding on my point John.
I also have considerable opinion about them being placed on any traffic routes. Whilst it may be relatively easy to navigate in normal circumstances ["After you; No, after you!"] this all goes to pot in an evacuation situation and placing any large or traffic width reducing items on any part of an evacuation route is no different to suddenly closing of 2 lanes and the hard shoulder of a 3 lane motorway at 07.30hrs. The consequences are tailbacks, delays and further accidents.
Oh yes, that includes coat-stands, filing cabinet drawers that open into the trafic route and all the other paraphanalia found in so many workplaces - especially offices.
Frank Hallett
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Posted By Joe Ridley
Hi there,
I am having all sorts of bother with the location of our photocopier, it was in a corridor parked in a nice little recess surrounded by reams of paper which was deemed to be unsafe, so it was moved into a location next to a main electrical switchboard - against my concerns - where it resided for a few weeks.
Then it broke down and the engineer was not too happy with the location and lo and behold it has ended back in original position. However, the location does not block any fire escape route as the route takes the opposite direction and if, for whatever reason the primary route is not usable, the alternative route is not blocked by the photocopier as it does not restrict the passage of people as width of the passageway is the same at where the copier extends outwards.
I still have some nagging doubt about this and would appreciate any comments/advice on this.
Cheers
Joe
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