Everybody always says to stay safe when you go camping, hiking, traveling and everything in between. But does anybody ever tell you to stay safe at your job? Do you ever feel like you aren’t safe at your job? Maybe you feel like your job has no hazards or? Either way, we learned how to stay safe at our future or present jobs and the regulations at the workplace.

To kick this section off we started out with a quiz. It asked us questions about our jobs, like how safe we feel and if we got trained to do our jobs. I have never had a real job before so half the questions I couldn’t answer, but when we discussed everything as a class I learned a little bit about how many people actually feel safe at there job or have been trained properly. Here’s the quiz I did!

So after we did the quiz we watched this video. The video was all about workplace hazards and real life threatening situations that happened in the workplace. I must admit some of the scenes were quite gruesome. Two people in the video became paraplegic, one lost a leg and the other lost a few fingers. They all either were injured by being confused, not trained or over worked. They also were all injured by doing some little thing that doesn’t seem threatening in the moment. This made me think about how every thing you do in a workplace can effect either you or your surroundings, and that the regulations are there for a purpose.

So now that we saw what could happen if we weren’t careful it was time to learn about our rights and the regulations. For this we did a little worksheet. One side of this sheet was multiple choice questions and the other was a space to fill in the regulation number. You may think that this was really boring, but it was actually the exact opposite! Some questions I would be a hundred percent sure they were right and I would check the regulation site, in the end it would be a totally different answer. So believe it or not I learned a lot from a little worksheet!

Next we learned about some hazards and possible situations that could happen in our careers. Some were diseases that we could pick up, and others were things like how to carry boxes properly. Like before, all this got me to thinking how all these little mistakes that people make can ripple into life threatening situations.

To show our learning we were told to make some sort of media (picture, drawing, video or audio) I decided to make a picture. This picture includes 5 things a employer is doing wrong, I then used Superimpose to create “see-through” clip art that can show the correct way to do a job. I thought this was the best, and most interesting way to show little things that can make your job a whole lot safer.

5 things wrong with the picture vs. 5 things right:

1-Too many boxes being moved vs. One box

2-Inappropriate workplace wear vs. Safety helmet

3-Standing on wrong step vs. Standing on safest step

4-Unsafe work environment (puddle) vs. Hazard sign and mop

5- Too much weight on shoulder vs. Safe way to move boxes

Here’s how it turned out!

This whole unit helped me understand ways I can handle my workplace safety. The most important thing I learned was that we have our own rights as a worker. For example, if we feel tired or unsafe we can always talk to our supervisor. That’s just one of many things I know i can do to help stay safe in my workplace.