Workstation Safety:

• Keep your workstation(s) clean and tidy.
• Ensure that you have ample ventilation in the room(s) you are working in.
• Sit comfortably, ensuring that your eye line is always approximately level with the top of the screen displays.
• Adjust the brightness of screen displays to minimize glare and resulting eyestrain.
• Use large font or expanded view where possible to minimize eye strain.
• Maintain the office lighting level at a brightness appropriate to the nature of the task. Minimise backlighting behind your screens.
• Switch off screens, or set to screensaver to minimize screen 'burn' when leaving workstation for a prolonged period.
• Log off when leaving a workstation, if appropriate.
• Shut down machines overnight unless processing (to reduce power consumption and heat build-up in offices).
• Switch off lights, air-conditioners and other appliances whenever possible (to reduce power consumption and heat build-up).

Electrical Safety:

• Ensure that all mains plugs are firmly pushed into their sockets at all times.
• Always do everything in your power to minimize all possibilities of electrical arcing and/or overheating.
• Never leave curtains, drapes or any other flammable materials lying on electrical connections.
• Always switch off a socket before unplugging from it.
• Unless running on battery, power down a computer before unplugging it.