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Revamped e-learning programme aims to keep Scotland's offices safe and healthy

Safe and Healthy Working, an occupational health and safety service for Scotland's SMEs, has used TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) to make its 'Office Hazards' e-learning programme more interactive and engaging.

TIS built five virtual environments for the programme - a reception; a manager's office; general office; kitchen, and copying/filing room. Each environment contains potential health and safety hazards for users to identify.

Having identified the hazards, users are given further information about specific office-related risks. They are then able to complete risk assessments - which are required by law - and learn more about risk avoidance.

"The programme, which is available online or via CD-ROM, is designed to help users identify the various hazards that can be found in offices," explained Safe and Healthy Working's Nuala Healy. "It also provides suggestions on how to deal with these hazards in both practical and legal terms, as well as offering further information on all the topics covered.

"By their very nature, SMEs can concentrate so much on doing their work that they have few 'spare resources' left to devote to their statutory obligations of ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. This programme, made more interactive and engaging by TATA Interactive Systems, should encourage and motivate employers and employees to take up its challenges and, in the process, become more aware of the law's requirements as well as how to operate a safe and healthy working environment."

Ann Halliday of Safe and Healthy Working commented: "Originally, the 'Office Hazards' programme comprised basic, scrollable text which, although accurate, provided few incentives and challenges to encourage users to make full use of the wealth of information and advice it contains. With TATA Interactive Systems' expertise we have transformed the programme into something that is also visually attractive. We hope that it will play an important part in helping to keep Scotland's offices a safe and healthy working environment."

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