OH&S Role Play

1. Welcome to our studio’s OH&S
induction presentation
Going through this presentation
today with you will be: Tom

2. What we will be covering today:
• Current Safety Procedures
• Equipment safety checks
• Our safety representative
• Hazards in the studio
• Controlling risks
• Reporting risks
• Inspection and consultative process’s
• Emergency procedures
• Responsibilities of employers and employees
• Hazard signs and safety symbols
• OH&S national policies

3. Our Current Safety Procedures
• Employees are required to take a 5 minute break for every 30 minutes of
constant computer work.
• We make sure your posture is correct, your desk is adjusted to the right
height, and that your monitor is adjusted to be just below your eye level
and at a viewing distance of 35 – 70cm.
• Everyone’s computer chair must be set to the appropriate height to avoid
problems with their back and posture.
• Large desks with enough room to easily reach the items around you.
• We allow you to get up at anytime and stretch, to relieve any built up
stresses or strains.
• We make sure that the lighting levels are adjusted to reduce glare.

4. Equipment Safety Checks
We ask our employees to do daily checks on the
equipment such as:
• Ensuring no faults with the computer chairs, desks, or any
furniture and also making sure they do not have too many
appliances plugged into one power board.

5. Our designated Safety Representative is Dan
• If you have any questions or problems
about safety or risks ask Dan, he’ll be
happy to help you out.
Common Hazard Signs and safety symbols:

6. Important existing & potential
hazards in the studio
1. RSI: Repetitive Strain Injury
2. Back injury due to poor posture
3. Eye injury
4. Stress
5. Handling Heavy items
6. Poor air quality
7. Lack of training in correct safety procedures
8. Catching virus off another employee
9. Electrocution due to liquid spilling on electronics
10. Overworking - working for too long in one session

7. Controlling These Risks and taking on
responsibilities in the workplace
• Ensuring 5 minute breaks every half an hour.
• Checking your posture is correct every time you
start.
• Stretching or getting up and walking in your 5
minute breaks.
• Listening to your training, make sure you
understand what you are doing.
• Avoid placing liquids near electronics.
• Don’t come to work sick.
• Keeping the room ventilated and cooled/heated.

8. Reporting Risks and Incidents
At all times if you see a risk, or an incident
occurs, you must report it immediately.
If you see a risk or an incident occurring, you
must immediately get a “Report a risk or
incident” forum from the office and fill it our
thoroughly, then get it to your manager straight
away.

9. Our OH&S inspection and
consultative process
• The process we go through is to take the inspector or
consultant throughout our workplace, going through each of
our OH&S setups, showing what we have in place and that
everything is being maintained.
• If we have an issue that needs to be resolved, we talk to them
about how we are working on fixing the issue.

10. Fire, Injury, assault and power-outs
• Fire directions are available next to the door in every room,
head to the exit nearest to you in case of a fire.
• In case of a Injury in the workplace, call an ambulance if
necessary, if not, contact a manager and get the closest
medical kit.
• If you see assault in the workplace, tell your manager and
they will talk to the assaulted. Police will become involved.
• In the case of a power-out, head towards the nearest exit,
wait for instructions there from your manager.

11. Images
• Some information from the document: 03_OHS.pdf
• http://alertforce.com.au/wp-content/uploads/occupational-health-and-
safety5.jpg
• http://stupidknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/smiley-face.jpg
• http://www.paintquality.co.uk/health/images/Hazard-icons.gif
• http://www.health-safety-signs.uk.com/productimages/fire-extinguisher-
sign.gif