Office Safety (Update Available)

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number

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Overview/Description
This course is designed to cover hazards that may be encountered when working in administrative areas. These areas of concern are ergonomic stress, hazard communication, bloodborne pathogens, and electrical safety. The content in this course is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. Learner objectives are to: identify office noise abatement and air quality/ventilation strategies; identify the signs and symptoms of ergonomic hazards and how to reduce injuries; identify how to prevent office hazards and injuries; identify potential office hazards and common injuries, such as back strain, slips, trips, falls, inadequate lighting and eye strain, and electrical shocks.

Target Audience
Personnel working in administrative areas

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Office Safety

identify office noise abatement strategies.

identify strategies to improve air quality in an office.

identify strategies to improve ventilation in an office.

identify symptoms resulting from ergonomic hazards.

identify ways to reduce the chances of developing ergonomic injuries.

identify factors that influence the occurrence of accidents and injuries in the office.

identify ways to avoid back injuries in the office.

identify factors related to fall injuries.

identify how poor lighting can cause eye strain.

identify factors related to risk of electrical injury.

Course Number:
SAH0458