http://www.publicarartigos.com.br/ Articles at Publicar Artigos - Mostre seu conteúdo pt-br http://www.publicarartigos.com.br/ingl%C3%AAs/health/avoiding-trips-and-slips-in-a-clean-office.html http://www.publicarartigos.com.br/ingl%C3%AAs/health/avoiding-trips-and-slips-in-a-clean-office.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:16:23 -0200
It is a good idea to take a walk around your office once a day and take a good look. Examine all areas for any safety hazards and make sure any hazards that you see are taken care of immediately. The longer you leave the hazards in place, the more likely it is that you have left yourself open for liability and claims. In an office environment, people are often focused on something in their hands or in their mind rather than really watching where they're going. They are likely to back up and fall over something or simply walk right into something because of their inattention.

File rooms are infamous places of injury. Just by their very nature they have files, boxes and loose paper lying around. Work out a filing routine. Have set places to check out files and return files. If you put these places out of the way, you are less apt to have a problem. The person that handles your filing should not be allowed to put boxes or loose files on the floor during the course of their workday. Everything should be off the floor at all times. A filer could set a file on the floor in order to place another file, turn and step on the loose file, have the pages slip and sent them tumbling backwards causing an embarrassing moment at the least and serious injury at the other end of the scale.
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Watch out for these kinds of issues, because you don't want to end up with a serious injury because you weren't paying attention. If you see unsafe conditions, you should not only avoid them, but you should warn others about them and report them to whoever is in charge, so that other people aren't put at risk. A lot of serious accidents - and even some fatalities - could be avoided if people were just more careful and more concerned about other people, and if they reported problems instead of just ignoring them. In some cases, it might be appropriate for you to take onsite safety into your own hands, but in other instances it's not a good idea because it's too dangerous and there's someone paid to handle it.

That's especially true with issues like electrical problems, because they can be extremely dangerous. Trying to tackle something like that isn't the same thing as someone moving a box off of the stairs so that their co-workers don't trip. The same is true with cleaning up a spill. If it's water anyone can handle it. If it's some kind of chemical it's better to let a trained person handle it so you don't have to worry about getting injured. Anyone who works, no matter in what environment, has the potential to get injured. By being careful and reporting problems promptly, and kind of onsite issue can be resolved and accidents can be avoided.
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Every employer has the responsibility to take their employee's health and safety into consideration when planning working conditions and providing working tools. The responsibility the employer has depends on many things including the age of the employee. If you need to bring a claim against your employer for compensation, you will need a solicitor that will be able to show the duty of care that your employer was responsible for providing to you. In your work environment, your employer should provide competent staff to interact with you, if your injury was caused by the actions of incompetent staff, your employer will have responsibility for that. Your employer is also responsible for providing adequate tools to perform your job. This means anything from a wrench to an office chair. Your employer is responsible for considering the environment you will be working in, the job you will be performing and choose the tools that are correct for both, meaning very simply, the right tools for the job. If your employer provides inadequate or incorrect tools to do your job and it results in injury to you, your employer is responsible for that injury.

Your employer is responsible for figuring out the system and mechanics for performing your job in the safest way possible. For instance, if you are working in a restaurant and there is a blind corner, a mirror should be installed in such a way that it reveals anyone coming in your direction before you turn the corner. If you are injured for lack of safe practices in a situation like this, your employer would be responsible for your injuries. If you perform a job that is repetitive in nature, it could result in RSI or repetitive strain injury, your employer will need to design your work schedule in such a way as to reduce the possibility of this type of injury to a minimum.

If you are unsure as to whether or not you are qualified to file a claim, you may want to check with a solicitor, there are many solicitors that offer free compensation and others that work on a no win, no pay basis.
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