ABSTRACT
Technology is changing the way employees work, increasing the amount of "office"-type work and decreasing the manufacturing-type "production" work, focusing the safety manager more and more on hazards in the nonproduction environment. It is important that management begins now to institute safeguards to control injuries and accidents in the nonproduction environments. It is also important to establish which nonproduction employees go into production areas and to make sure that they understand the hazards and are properly trained and equipped to avoid them. Office workers and other nonproduction people must be involved in regular safety activities, just the same as production workers, except that the approach should be different. In order to train employees to react properly during an emergency, evacuation drills should be conducted at least twice a year. One important part of planning an office safety program is to include emergency planning, especially since many offices are located in modern buildings with windows that do not open.
