Occupational Health and
Safety Policies and Procedures
Presented by: Group 1(Hanna & Cherry)
Occupational Health and Safety
Policies and Procedures
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is a
planned system of working to prevent illness
and injury by recognizing and identifying
hazards and risks in the workplace.
Implementing health and safety procedure is
the responsibility of all persons in the
computer and technology industries. You must
identify the hazards where you are working
and assess how dangerous they are. Eliminate
the hazard or minimize the risk that they
present.
Safety measures and preventive practices that we
should observe as we do our daily chores in the
workplace ,in your case, the computer laboratory.
Also known as the do's and don'ts in computer
operation, these policies and procedures must be
observed at all times in the computer laboratory for
a variety of reasons: to avoid accidents in any
untoward incidents that may occur due to
misconception and negligence; to prolong the
lifespan of tools and equipment, in your case, the
computer system and its peripheral devices; and to
foster good work habits.
There are three steps to manage health and safety
at work: Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and
Risk Control. You can use these three Think Safe
steps to prevent accidents from work.
1. Hazard Identification
A hazard is anything that could hurt you or someone else.
Examples of workplace hazards include:
o Frayed electrical cords (could result in electrical shock)
o Boxes stacked precariously (they could fall on someone)
• Noisy machinery (could result damage to your hearing)
During working hours, you must remain alert to anything
that may be dangerous. If you see, here is smell anything
odd, take note. If you think it could be hazard, tell
someone.
2. Risk Assessment
Assessing the risk means working out how likely it is that a
hazard will harm someone and how serious the harm could be.
Whenever you spot a hazard, assess the risk by asking
yourself to questions:
How likely would the hazard harm me or someone else?
How badly could I or someone else be harmed?
Always tell your employer, supervisor, health and safety
representative, or in your case, your teacher about hazard you
can't eliminate yourself, especially if the hazard could cause
serious harm to anyone.
You can ask your teacher for instruction and training before
using equipment, ask for help in moving or lifting heavy
objects, and tell your teacher if you think a work practice
could be dangerous.
3. Risk Control
In a work setting, it is your
employer's responsibility to
eliminate hazards. In school, there
are times when you may able to
eliminate simple hazards yourself,
as long as you don't put yourself or
others at risk. For example, you
can pick things up from the door
and put them away.
Common Hazard Related to
Computer
A hazard is an agent which has the potential
to cause harm to vulnerable target. Hazard
can be both natural and human induced. The
situation could involve a task, chemical or
equipment used. Hazard management is a
continuous process that can be used to
improve health and safety in all workplace.
1. Physical Hazards
One of the most common physical hazard involving computer
users is cables running across the floor. If someone trips, falls,
and gets hurt because of a cable you ran across the floor, you
are your teacher's negligence may have the legal
consequences. if you need to temporarily run a cable across the
floor, place a "danger" sign similar to those "wet floor" signs
used by cleaning services.
For computer users such as call center agents and
telemarketers, long periods in front of the computer can also
cause harm in different body parts. For examples, working in
front of the monitor for long hours may cause eye strain. Back
pains, muscle pains, stiff neck, cramps and headaches may also
occur if the pressure in sitting for long hours is not addressed
immediately. Constant typing, use the mouse and gaming pads
may lead conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome, which
may be caused by hand strain.
2. Mechanical Hazards
When working on electronic equipment, ask
yourself "Is there any way this equipment
could hurt me?" Simple printing
troubleshooting, for example, might do you
harm if you stick your hand in the printer and
the paper feed arm suddenly moves, feeding
not only paper through the printer, but a piece
of your finger too.
When working on electronic equipment,
always be alert to any possibility of being hurt
by moving parts, hot components, or sharp
edges.
3. Chemical Hazards
There is a wide array of chemicals used in electronic
equipment. This include display cleaning chemicals,
keyboard cleaning chemicals, compressed gas dirt
and dust removers, in many cleaning solvents. Some
of these can be harmful if accidentally swallowed,
come into contact with their skin, or get in the eyes.
Always read the warnings and instruction on the label
before using any chemicals for electronic equipment.
Also, be very careful when dealing with inkjet printer
cartridges, or laser printer toner cartridges and ink
containers for printers with a continuous ink system.
Ink and toner can stain skin, clothing and surfaces.
4. Electric Shock Hazard
Inside computers and electronic equipment,
there is a range of voltage from 3.3 volts to 25
volts, most of which are harmless. But at the
power supply, you will find line voltage, which
is lethal 220 volts.
The workplace should have safety guidelines
to follow to:
Protect people from injury,
Protect equipment from damage, and
Protect the environment from contamination
QUIZ:
1. A planned system of working to prevent illness and
injury by recognizing and identifying hazards and
risks in the workplace.
2. Anything that could hurt you or someone else.
3. What kind of hazards when there is a wide array of
chemicals used with electronic equipment?
4. What kind of hazards when the users trips, falls, and
gets hurt because of a cable they ran across the
floor?
5. An agent which has the potential to cause harm to a
vulnerable target?
6-8 Give atleast 3 chemicals used in equipment.
9-10 Give 2 hazards that we discuss
ANSWER
1. Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
2. Hazards
3. Chemical Hazard
4. Physical Hazard
5. Hazard
6-8
Display cleaning chemicals
Keyboard cleaning chemicals
Compressed gas dirt
Dust removers
9-10
Physical hazard
Mechanical hazard
Chemical hazard
