TOPIC EIGHT- WORKPPLACE SAFETY

Task One: What are some of the potential hazards at your service learning placement? This may not be a simple question for some of you who do not work with dangerous machinery or lift heavy objects. This does not mean hazards do not exist. Think hard, and explain the ways that an employee may become injured on the job. Think long and short term. Your response should be a full paragraph.

I think that the most hazardous things at the service learning would be the scissors. My opinion is that this would be because some times when they are cutting hair the scissors may fall and cut you at the same time. Also you can cut at the same time the person who your cutting their hair. This is why i think the scissors are a dangerous object at the hair salon, but you can do nothing about them because you have to have them anyways.

Task Two: Review OHSA's Safety and Health Topics for a safety issue you might experience at your service learning placement. Once you have searched for a topic, you should have found a few articles relating to your search. Read one. Explain what you learned with 2-3 paragraphs. You might explain how what you learn pertains to you and the other people who share your workplace. If you cannot think of a topic, ask your friendly instructor for help.

i found some articles about hand tools on how they can be used, cleaned up, and be put away. This means that before using a tool you have to clean it, make sure is washed really well. Also you have make sure that when you use a hazardous tool you put it up the correct way and washed it again after you have already been using it. This does really help when you do it because at the workplace they do all this and they can not do anything else if they don't clean the tool they had already used before...


Task Three: I. Write a two paragraph blog post that discusses your experiences thus far at your service learning placement. Be sure to write using complete sentences, proper capitalization, and proper grammar. You may want to include some of the following in your journal




* what you've learned about the profession




* what you've learned about working with the people at your placement




* any positive experiences you've had




* any negative experiences you've had




* what you look forward to in the coming weeks




* a picture or visual II. Give your post an appropriate title.III. Be sure to proofread your work before publishing your post.IV. Notify your adviser when you have published your service learning weekly journal blog post.

Right now my working experiences at Master Cuts have been great because i have learned about how people should get along and work together as a team in the salon and also work together. You would also need to treat customers well so they can come back to the salon and also give them discounts on the first time. =)

Some of the positive experience i had i think its been all of them since i started going to the workplace. I actually didn't have any negative experiences they were all positive. I really enjoy being there and for the following weeks coming up i think they would be even better, so am excited.