Task 6

Part 1

I have found, working at home to be rather pleasant but it has been hard to implement the ideal OH&S solutions within my home work space as the budget never seems to stretch far enough.For example check out the photos of my work station on my PhotoBucket account

And you will have an idea of the issues that I have had to face while working at home.Having spent all of my money on a 32 inch high definition screen and stylish notebook, there is none available to purchase a suitable chair.So for the mean time I will have to persevere with the old rickety chair, but soon a new chair will be purchased and this particular OH&S issue can then be resolved.

So I guess what this Image really highlights about OH&S is that these issues need to be considered when you are doing your budgeting, and funds need to be left aside for OH&S issues that may arise in the future as otherwise, once an issue is identified there will be no way to resolve the issue, if solving the problem requires monetary expenditure.

Part 2

The report on the OH&S issues at Real Fresh brought up a number of issues that will need to be dealt with.The task of identifying these issues is made a lot easier having used a text based form as opposed to a form that over relies on check boxes.

The height of the benches on which the computers that are used for invoicing reside was found to be problem, and a suggestion on how to fix this was recorded in the report.The habit of removing chairs from the work area by members of other departments, was also noted and rightly identified as an issue that affects the ergonomics of the work place.

Overall the report results suggested that the ergonomics of the work place were mostly OK, with only the problem of desk height being of any real concern.The results do indicate that staff training as regards safety issues such as use of fire extinguishers and the storing of hazardous chemicals will need immediate attention.