We take safety for granted, everyone does really and it's easy to develop a sense of complacency when you work in an office. What can possibly go wrong in an office setting? Actually, quite a bit if you're not paying attention and I'll return to my previous mention of a sense of complacency. A paper cut? These actually hurt and I've seen employees in a really bad mood because of a paper cut. It's same sort of mood you get into when you're dealing with a stubborn hangnail or a long meeting with a group of people you don't like. Lighting, lighting has been a problem for some people because we used to work in a darker room. Some of these folks have been relocated to a windowed cube and they hate it, they're not as productive anymore.
My job is to perform a safety stand-down, now that we're moved in. I have to identify the safety hazzards of working in an office. Especially making sure that ergonomics is being comfortably observed. I also have to look for earthquake hazzards in case the big one slaps us. We've been hearing about the "the big one" for as long as I can remember. I think some people get a kick out of predicting doom but not really preparing for it. I was in in the NOrthridge earthquake, they're not fun and people were REALLY scared.
Tomorrow, Cherryl and I will walk through our four department's floor and inspect every office, officle and cube for lethal working conditions. We'll record every complaint from lighting to unregistered odors to loud phone talkers to just about, everything that's hazzardous in an office setting.
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