1. Health and Safety Around Computers

2. Safe Working Practices Computer rooms contain a lot of expensive equipment and can sometimes be quite dangerous! This lesson we will think about some of the issues you need to be aware of, and how to avoid any dangers.

3. Safe Working Practices Look at the following scenarios and vote on whether you think they are safe or not. Vote YES for safe, NO for unsafe. YES NO

4. Safe? YESNO A nice tidy desk

5. Safe? YESNO Why bother cleaning?

6. 1 in 5 people do not wash their hands after going to the toilet! Did you know?

7. Safe? YESNO Save time - eat at your desk

8. Keyboard or a toilet seat? Which is dirtier?

9. A keyboard contains 400x more germs than a toilet seat. Keyboards are cleaned less than once a month, allowing bacteria to build up. Which is dirtier?

10. Safe? YESNO Letting someone else use your computer

11. Safe? YESNO Hunching over your computer?

12. Safe? YESNO Taking regular breaks?

13. Safe? YESNO An easy to remember password Let me in

14. Do you know what the most common passwords are? Let me in

15. Why is this a problem? Do you know the most common passwords? 12345 Qwerty Letmein Password Iloveyou 1234abc Let me in

16. Safe? YESNO A complicated password Mex1cO

17. Safe Working Issues - Recap Computer Safety..............

18. Safe Working Practices Log into my wiki and find our class. Go to the class ‘Discussion’ tab and add an entry that describes one computer safety (e.g. eye strain, germs). Explain the issue and then how to avoid it. EXTN: Go to the E-Safety Vocabulary page and learn the vocab for next weeks lesson.

19. ICT Homework Learn the E-Safety vocab for next lesson. Join the wiki Finish your Computer Safety page Take part in some of the wiki discussions EXTN: Write up an A4 user guide on Password Safety (paper or printed). Explain why a password is important and what features make a password strong (F f ! 2 $)