How To Ensure Safe Working Practice In A Business Environment

Task 1 (A01) Safe working practices in a business environment

Prepare some text to explain, using examples, measures that should be taken to ensure safe working practices when using ICT in a business environment. In your explanation you must include the potential danger that each measure is designed to address. The more detail the higher the grade you will receive for this section. You can store pictures for your evidence in an images folder in A01

Complete each section with as much explanation as you can:

|Working Practice |Dangers arising and measures to be taken to avoid these.Give reasons for each of|Examples (Images of the risk in the work place/ classroom) |
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A bad posture can occur when someone is slouching or | |
| |sitting uncomfortably on a chair on a chair that could change the shape of your | |
| |spine. | |
|Taking regular breaks/ change of activity |Taking regular breaks is very good for your body you can help by stopping |[pic] [pic] |
| |headaches and other aches on the body. Also a change of activity would very | |
| |helpful because if you have been typing for 8 hours then your hands would ache |
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|Eye sight checks |Eye sight checks could be useful because if you stay on the computer for too |[pic] [pic] |
| |long your eye sight could be getting worse without you even knowing about it. | |
|Health and safety training |Health and safety training can be supportive so if there are any risks that have|[pic] [pic] |
| |occurred at work you could do the training to avoid hazards from happening | |
| |again. |