Please share your ideas/tips for safe working practice with the wider library community.
There are lots of useful ideas which the DPI awareness group have not yet thought about.
Category Archives: Health and Safety
DPI awareness tip, 12/7/2012
Work strain can be a pain,
Being too tense makes no sense.
Emergency Closure of Libraries
The Emergency Closure of Libraries SOP has been updated and now includes guidelines for staff to use when we have to close the libraries at short notice. The guidelines are available on the wiki under Health and Safety.
Any questions please discuss with your line manager.
Regards
Coral
DPI training next week cancelled
The last DPI training session on Wednesday 4 July 11-12 Central library seminar room 210
has been cancelled due to visit by Janine Schmidt.
I will arrange some more DPI sessions for those staff unable to attend this round for later in the year
Jenny
DPI tip
Walk an email – instead of emailing someone in the same office or building, get up and talk to them. This gets you out of your chair and away from the computer for a quick break.
DPI Training
Members of the Library DPI Team (previously OOS) will lead you through tips on working safely, preventing injury and physical stretching exercises to improve our physical wellbeing.
Four sessions are being held
Monday 25 June 10-11am Central Library seminar room 210
Wed 27 June 11-12 EPS Library discussion room 1
Friday 29 June 3-4pm Education Library room 207
Wednesday 4 July 11-12 Central library seminar room 210
All staff should attend one of these sessions if possible.
Please email me with the session you are attending (after checking with your manager) .
Jenny Owens
DPI Awareness Tip of the week 12/6/12
Make sure your screen is not too bright as this can cause discomfort.
Caroline Anderson
DPI awareness tip, 29/05/12
Use a trolley.
Those books will be heavier at your destination than when you first pick them up.
Anne.
DPI awareness tip, 23/05/12
To make that gap – Shuffle don’t slide!
DPI tip
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci