Product Description

Designed and written as a practical workplace training and reference tool, this 142-page pocket guide is filled with clear-language text including safety tips, charts, diagrams, checklists and illustrations.

Objectives

This guide provides an overview of potential health and safety hazards in offices and offers ways to work safely.

Scope

The guide covers potential health and safety hazards in typical offices and ways of preventing risk of injuries and illnesses related to office work. The main focus is the integration of health and safety within all aspects of office work.

Target Audience

The guide is intended for anyone who works in an office – including workers, human resources (HR) professionals, health and safety committees, and health and safety professionals. Office managers will find this guide a useful reference in developing policies and practices to prevent injury and illness. This guide is also a useful resource that can be used as handout material for employee orientation and training sessions.

Each publication produced by CCOHS undergoes several stages of review. As part of this review, representatives from government, employers, and labour are requested to comment on draft copies of CCOHS documents for technical accuracy and readability.

Although every effort is made to ensure accuracy and completeness of the information, it is understood that CCOHS makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information and assumes no liability for any damages or loss suffered as a result of any inaccuracy or incompleteness therein.