Occupational Health And Safety - Electrical Equipment In The Workplace

Occupational Health & Safety

Electrical Safety In The Office

Electrical Safety Issues

• Clearing jams in photocopiers, paper shredders• Liquid spillages• Condition of appliances• Extension leads• Overloading

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Electrical Safety Hazards

• Inserting fingers or metal objects (screwdrivers, letter-openers) into working parts of office machines.

• Electrically powered machine, appliance or tool that may become 'live' to the touch after having liquid spilt over it.

• Electrical appliance or tool has developed a fault, or has defective insulation or exposed wiring.

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hazards!

Electrical Safety Hazards

• Extension lead which has exposed wiring or damaged insulation.

• Using a series of adaptors to connect additional appliances to a power socket may overload the circuit to which it is attached, and cause an 'outage'.

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Electrical Safety Solutions

• Check that photocopiers and shredders can not be opened whilst power remains switched on.

• Ensure staff know correct (safe) procedures for accessing machines to clear paper jams.

• Call for technician to deal with problems which staff can not resolve using instructions provided.

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Electrical Safety Solutions

• Alert staff for need to keep liquids well away from all equipment connected to the electricity supply.

• Advise staff to disconnect equipment from power supply before mopping up spillages.

Electrical Safety Solutions

• Have all electric appliances inspected, tested and tagged on a regular basis.

• Where equipment is identified for repair, it should be immediately removed from service and appropriately labelled to prevent further use.

• Use extension leads for temporaryconnection - not as a permanent method ofsupplying power. • If an extension cord has to be used andis exposed to foot traffic, make sure it issecured (taped down?) and protected from damage.

Electrical Safety Solutions

Electrical Safety Solutions

• If additional appliances needed permanently, install a larger power socket (eg. 4 - sockets).

• Discourage the use of adaptors and connection of unauthorised appliances which may overload the circuit dangerously (eg. fan heaters, electric radiators in winter).

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Electrical Safety Examples

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Electrical Safety Examples

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Electrical Safety Examples

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