Course Objectives:
Increase employees’ awareness of their safety responsibilities to themselves and others regarding office and home safety.
- Ensure that employee can identify office hazards and the appropriate preventative action before any accidents occur.
- Providing trainees why ergonomics are important, how to minimize musculoskeletal disorders and illness due to the ergonomics problems.
- Ensure that office employees can define the causes and consequences of poor ergonomics and how to implement engineering control to eliminate ergonomics hazards and protecting them from injuries.
- Promote ergonomics healthy work patterns (i.e. incorporate break and job rotation for repetitive tasks and highlight the common causes of repeated motions injuries)
- Promote employees awareness with the electrical hazard and safety precautions in the office.
- Personnel understand the dangers associated with office tools, office machines and office chemicals.
- Recognize the employees with the emergency evacuation arrangements and what he has to do in case of fire of incident.
- Trainees will be familiar with office firefighting methods, types of office fire, and what to do.
- Increasing employee’s awareness of hazards of slips, trips, and falls in the office environment.
- Teaching Employees with the 5 causes of home injuries or deaths:
- Falls B-Poisoning c- Fires d- choking/suffocation e-drowning
- Providing employees how to keep them safe when handling materials in the office environment.
- Applying housekeeping as a good work practice to keep your work area safe.
- Fire safety at Office and Home.
Training Methodology:
- Participants will learn by active participation during the program using exercises, questionnaire, syndicate and group discussion.
Course Outlines:
- Introduction
- Objectives
- Responsibilities
- Definitions (accident, incident, risk, hazard, near miss, work injury and road injury)
- What is ergonomics in the office environment?
- Causes of poor ergonomics consequences.
- Ergonomics tasks, ergonomics risks and consequences and control measures.
- Ergonomics: Repetitive motion injuries and solutions in the office.
- Types of hazards at home and office.
- Material handling in the office environment.
- Definitions (Fire – fire fighting – emergency plan and emergency drill)
- Office firefighting
- Emergency plans and evacuation in the event of an incident at office and home.
- Electrical Safety in the office
- Tool Safety in the office
- Office machines and equipment and safety control measures.
- What are office chemicals and how to use MSDs (Material Safety Data Sheet).
- Office slips, trips and falls hazards and safety precautions.
- Office Housekeeping
- Office furniture layout.
- Office environment.
- Safety trips for office employees.
- Ideal safe office.
- Course Assessment.