OCR National in ICTOCR National in ICTUnit 1 – ICT in Unit 1 – ICT in

BusinessBusiness

OCR National in ICTOCR National in ICTUnit 1 – ICT in Unit 1 – ICT in

BusinessBusiness

AO1 - Safe Working Practices in AO1 - Safe Working Practices in a Business Environmenta Business Environment

Examples of safe working practices

• Health and safety• Physical protection of equipment• Loss of data and backing up files• Security of data and file protection

Your task: For each of the above make a list of at least 3 different issues and what can be done to protect against them to ensure safe working practice.

HealthYour slideshow should contain information on the following areas…

Stress

Eyestrain

Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI)

Back and Neck Problems

SafetyTrailing wires / Sockets

Electrical testing of equipment

Space / Obstacles around the equipment

Food and Drink

Heating and Ventilation

Fire exits / Extinguishers

Physical Protection of Equipment

Your slideshow should contain information on the following areas…

Locks

Swipe Cards

Keypads

Video Surveillance

Bolts

Secure Cables

Postcode Marking

Upper floor location

Window bars

Loss of DataYour slideshow should contain information on the following areas…

Risks to data – Fire / Flood / Lightning / Theft / Malicious Damage / Hackers /

Viruses

Backing-up FilesExternal hard drives

Memory Sticks

Online data storage

Automated backup software

Vaults

Security of Data and File Protection

• Username and Password access• Password hierarchies• File encryption• Password protecting files and folders

Your slideshow should contain information on the following areas…