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#1 Posted : 19 March 2007 09:22:00(UTC)
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Posted By DavidW
Does anyone have any examples of accidents occuring in offices. I'm doing a presentation shortly on Managers responsibilities for H&S but most of my examples are industry based so often not seen as relevant by Managers in an office. Any help gratefully recieved.

Thanks

David
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#2 Posted : 19 March 2007 10:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
David

There are some good photographs here: http://www.safetyphoto.co.uk/ Go to 'Photos 1' and look under 'offices'.

Paul
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#3 Posted : 19 March 2007 11:35:00(UTC)
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Posted By Cathy Ricketts
Slips, trips and falls - cabling, other people's bags and belongings, walking into areas and not bothering to switch the lights on

Manual Handling - despite training - moving furniture, lifting stationery boxes, carying laptops etc

Kitchens - burns and scalds - coffee making, porridge, dropping and spilling hot drinks

Bruising - catching self on edges of furniture, keys left in equipment, things falling off shelves and hitting people.

Here are just a few realities from the working office to keep you going
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#4 Posted : 19 March 2007 11:37:00(UTC)
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Posted By Cathy Ricketts
There is a video/dvd which concentrates on office safety by the FPA called Stay Alive from 9 to 5 - a guide to avoiding accident and injury in the office. I have used this is risk assessment training for managers when looking at office risk
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#5 Posted : 19 March 2007 13:48:00(UTC)
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Posted By HarryJ
This is amusing but not sure whether you can use it an presenetation.

www.stationaryisbad.com
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#6 Posted : 19 March 2007 14:56:00(UTC)
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Posted By Aileen Williams
Er, shouldn't that url be stationEryisbad?
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#7 Posted : 19 March 2007 15:13:00(UTC)
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
but you do need to look at what it happening in the backgrounds.

Gilly
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#8 Posted : 19 March 2007 21:18:00(UTC)
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Posted By DavidW
Excellent, thanks for those examples and the videos were great but I don't think I'd get away with using them on this presentation. I do have another audience in mind though who would certainly appreciate them. I'll definately be using some of the examples tomorrow though.

Thanks again

David
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#9 Posted : 20 March 2007 15:58:00(UTC)
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Posted By J Knight
Brilliant videos. On this theme, but perhaps of no use to David the investigation dvd with the new style MS is excellent,

John
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#10 Posted : 20 March 2007 16:32:00(UTC)
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Posted By steve e ashton
or you could try:
http://ath-x.ath.cx/funn...te-OfficeLinebacker.html
and watch terry's world...

I wonder if that approach to safety has ever been successful?

Steve
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#11 Posted : 20 March 2007 17:02:00(UTC)
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Posted By Merv Newman
Steve,

of course it's been tried. It's the traditional management way of handling safety. Wait until someone breaks a rule then give them a good kicking.

Never works

Merv
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