When it comes to playing the role of an office furniture designer within your own space, you need to think about one thing first of all – safety. As a business, you have certain responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act, which means you need to ensure a safe working environment for your employees and visitors to your space.
What does this mean exactly?
Check out this video for a few visual pointers.
As you can see, much of this is common sense. For instance, blocking a fire exit is a huge NO, leaving trailing wires along the floor is a serious hazard, and not placing a ‘wet floor’ sign down when a spillage has occurred is a major risk for slipping and falling. In addition you should always ensure you have high quality office furniture, to avoid aches and pains for your employees, and health and safety awareness training should be mandatory for all.
Never leave waste paper bins full, make sure you have a complete ‘no smoking’ policy in the workplace, never overload electricity plugs, and make sure that storage items are at a level which can be reached easily by staff, and not stacked too high.
See, more common sense, but we need to point it out; you’d be surprised how many times violations of these simple health and safety rules occur.
Creating a comfortable and safe working environment should be your first priority. Always look for office furniture UK choices which fit the safety bill, and don’t be tempted to go for low quality choices, simply to save cash. It’s not worth the risk.
Do you have any other safety points to add?