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Health and Safety Around Computers

Safe Working Practices

Computer rooms contain a lot of expensive equipment and can sometimes be quite dangerous!

This lesson we will think about some of the issues you need to be aware of, and how to avoid any dangers.

Safe Working Practices

Look at the following scenarios and vote on whether you think they are safe or not.

Vote YES for safe, NO for unsafe.

YES NO

Safe?YES NO

A nice tidy desk

Safe?YES NO

Why bother cleaning?

1 in 5 people do not wash their hands after going to the

toilet!

Did you know?

Safe?YES NO

Save time - eat at your desk

Keyboard or a toilet seat?

Which is dirtier?

A keyboard contains 400x more germs than a toilet seat.

Keyboards are cleaned less than once a month, allowing bacteria to build up.

Which is dirtier?

Safe?YES NO

Letting someone else use your computer

Safe?YES NO

Hunching over your computer?

Safe?YES NO

Taking regular breaks?

Safe?YES NO

An easy to remember password

Let me

in

Do you know what the most

common passwords are?

Let me

in

Why is this a problem?

Do you know the most common passwords?

12345QwertyLetmeinPasswordIloveyou1234abc

Let me

in

Safe?YES NO

A complicated password

Mex1c

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Safe Working Issues - Recap

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Safe Working Practices

Log into my wiki and find our class.

Go to the class ‘Discussion’ tab and add an entry that describes one computer safety (e.g. eye strain, germs). Explain the issue and then how to avoid it.

EXTN: Go to the E-Safety Vocabulary page and learn the vocab for next weeks lesson.

ICT HomeworkLearn the E-Safety vocab for next lesson.

Join the wiki Finish your Computer Safety pageTake part in some of the wiki discussions

EXTN: Write up an A4 user guide on Password Safety (paper or printed). Explain why a password is important and what features make a password strong (F f ! 2 $)