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Would Your Office Pass a Health and Safety Inspection?

WOULD YOUR OFFICE PASS A HEALTH & SAFETY INSPECTION? Are you constantly dodging hazards at work? If your pathway to the printer looks like an obstacle course, you have to navigate your way around stacks of paperwork to find your stapler and your office chair leaves you with chronic back pain, the chances of your office passing a health and safety inspection are slim to say the least. Here's some of the most common health and s afety violations found in the office and how to avoid them. KEEP YOUR DESK CLEAN 000000 80% of infections are transmitted via contaminated surfaces, such as an office desk, not coughs & sneezes KEEP DRAWERS SHUT 7000 workplace injuries were caused by moving objects, that’s 10% USE A STEPLADDER Don't cla mber over office furniture. 300 injuries were caused by falls from height in the workplace PREVENT TRIPS & SPILLS 81000 trips and s lips occured in the workplace in 2014 ADJUSTABLE FURNITURE Back pain affects 1 in 3 adults Adjustable furniture is a must to combat lower back pain PROVIDE ADEQUATE TRAINING The total number of working days lost from 2013/14 was 28.2m TEST YOUR FIRE ALARMS The yearly cost of fire to the UK economy is estimated at nearly £8.3 bn test SHEilds SAFETY, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT COURSES WORLDWIDE www.sheilds.org REFERENCES www.nedicaldai ly.con/clean-youn-desk-office-space more hot-spot gerns toilet- seat-313738 webarchive.nattonalarchives.gov.uk/20121108165934/http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1838338. pdf www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/a-z.htn יLLLLLL; notes <---

Would Your Office Pass a Health and Safety Inspection?

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Highlights of some of the safety precautions that office workers should consider in order to pass an inspection.

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