health and safety around computers. safe working practices computer rooms contain a lot of expensive...
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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 $)