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Office Health and Safety – Overview |
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Although office workers are not exposed to as
great a risk as industrial workers, there are
certain health and safety risks in the office
that can lead to ill health, injuries and
accidents. Office workers are exposed to risks
such as working with Display Screen Equipment,
Manual Handling and injuries due to slipping,
tripping and falling.
Carelessness and neglect cause majority of
office accidents and ill health. People assume
that the office is a safe place and do not
seriously consider the effects of their actions.
Many of these injuries and ill health could be
avoided by making office workers aware of the
health and safety hazards in the office and by
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There are many pieces of legislation in place to
protect people whilst at work. These place
certain duties on employers and employees. PSI’s
Office Health and Safety solution addresses the
application of all the regulations listed below
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Health and Safety at Work Act 1974;
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Management of Health and Safety at Work
regulations 1992;
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Display Screen Equipment regulation 1992;
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Work Place Regulations 1992;
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Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1992;
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Manual Handling Operations regulations
1992;;
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Electricity at Work Regulations 1989;
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Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
Regulations (COSHH) 1988;
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First Aid Regulations 1981;
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Fire Precaution Act 1971;
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Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963.
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Features and Benefits |
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Provides employees with comprehensive
information on the Health and Safety risks
in the office and how they can be avoided;
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Facilitates the workplace risk assessment
and re-assessment process;
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Allows management of information and
reporting to be carried out locally as well
as centrally;
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Provides Trends and statistical analysis for
department, sites and the whole
organisation;
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Enables Risk analysis and hazard
identification for individuals;
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Provides Remedial action and control measure
management capability;
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Ensures compliance as it is designed by
health & safety experts and evaluated by
Robens Institute;
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Is fully customisable to meet your
organisation’s exact requirements;
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Is user friendly and intuitive;
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Is extremely cost effective;
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Available on several platforms and operating
systems;
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Ideal for all networks LAN, WAN,
INTRANET;
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Requires little effort to Install,
distribute and Support (especially the
intranet version);
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Year 2000 Compliant.
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Office Health and Safety Training |
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PSI‘s Office Health and Safety Solutions provide
you with the means to deliver consistent
training across your organisation. You no longer
need to organise classroom training. A
comprehensive Technology-Based Training or
course will ensure that every member of staff
will have access to the course directly from
their PC.
New members of staff can go through the course
and be made aware of health and safety issues as
a part of their induction to the company. |
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The software supports book marking. This means
the users can go through the entire course or
parts of it at their own convenience.
They are also able to revisit the course at any
time. What’s more you can monitor the progress
of all staff undertaking the training from a
central training administrator database sitting
on your desktop.
Office Health and Safety training is a graphical
and menu driven training course. The Course has
been designed with close consideration given to
the guidance on the Regulations by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE).
The course is fully customisable in terms of
content, graphics and flow. Therefore it can be
tailored to reflect the exact requirements,
terminology and corporate image of your
organisation. Office Health and Safety
Technology Based Training Course is available on
both Windows and
INTRANET.
Content:
The course covers the following topics:
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Working with Display Screen Equipment;
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Manual Handling;
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Working with Electricity;
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Working with Hazardous Substances;
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Fire and First Aid;
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Health and Safety Legislation;
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Slips, trips and falls;
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Good office practices, good house keeping,
office layout and harmful equipment;
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Common Injuries and Illnesses;
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Health and safety problems in the office;
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Stress and sick building syndrome.
There is a quiz at the end of the training
course aimed to test the students understanding
of the course content. The test is scored and
the records can be stored on the Risk Management
Reporting database.
Target:
Display Screen Equipment Users, Office Workers
Platforms:
DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Intranet (UNIX and
Windows based servers)
Network:
LAN, WAN, INTRANET
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Office Risk Assessment |
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The solution completely simplifies the risk
assessment process. You no longer need to assess
each office worker directly. Staff would simply
complete a self-assessment questionnaire through
a computerised Office Assessment questionnaire.
Access to this module is provided directly from
users PCs. The responses to the assessment
questions are recorded and stored on a central
Risk Management Database. |
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The office assessment questionnaire comprises of
checklists that have been designed to identify
office workers who are exposed to any health and
safety risks as a result of their work.
In each question the users are presented with a
set of possible responses to choose from whilst
being able to add comments (free text) at any
stage during the assessment. Users are guided
through questions and sections with intuitive
navigation buttons. Graphics, explanations and a
glossary of terms are used to help the users
understand the questions.
The Office Self Assessment computer based
questionnaire will take away the tedious task of
filling paper risk assessment forms for each
member of staff and gives you more time and
resources to measure, track and reduce risks in
your organisation. The Technology Based
Self-Assessment is available on both Windows and
INTRANET Platforms.
Content:
The questionnaire is divided into the following
sections:
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Health Symptom Checklist;
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General Office Health and Safety Checklist;
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Fire and First Aid Checklist;
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Specific office activity Checklist
(including DSE, Manual Handling, Electricity
and COSHH checklists).
Target:
Display Screen Equipment Users, Office Workers
Platforms:
DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Intranet (UNIX and
Windows based servers)
Network:
LAN, WAN, INTRANET
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Risk Management and Reporting |
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Providing training and collecting risk data is
only one aspect of the risk management process.
You need to be able to analyse the data
collected, quantify the risks, identify the
individuals exposed and devise an action plan. A
Powerful Reporting and Risk Assessment Database
is available to help you easily do all this and
more.
The Risk Management Reporter acts as a secure
central storage facility for all your Office
Health and Safety related records. |
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It will help you collate and analyse the
information and maintain historical records of
all the training and the risk assessments taken
place in your organisation.
PSI’s Risk Management Reporter will help you
accurately assess and reduce the Office Health
and Safety risks. The system supports corrective
measure selection, scheduling and tracking
giving you total control over the implementation
of any remedial action required.
The Risk Management Reporter provides detailed
statistical analysis of data and is capable of
producing standard and ad-hoc reports such as
hazard reports, correlation reports and response
report for the whole organisation, departments
or individuals. These reports play a fundamental
role in identifying and reducing risks.
Platforms:
Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows
NT, Windows 2000
Network:
LAN, WAN
Database:
MS SQL Server, MS Access
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