The document discusses safety procedures and guidelines for a media technology lab. It covers various employability and safety skills needed for working in an audio/video workplace, including following personal and workplace safety rules, emergency procedures, and addressing potential safety issues from electrical circuits. Specific safety topics covered include appropriate personal attire, safe use of electricity, protecting hearing, ergonomic workstation setups, lifting techniques, maintenance, fire safety, accident reporting, and avoiding human error. A safety test must be passed with 100% before using any lab equipment.

1. Warm Up
 Explain some of the employability
skills from yesterday’s lesson and
how they relate to the audio/video
workplace.
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2. Media Production Safety
Interactive Notebook Page 18.
TEKS (6A, B, C) Student is expected to implement
personal and workplace safety rules and regulations;
follow emergency procedures; and examine and
summarize safety-related problems that may result
from working with electrical circuits.
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3. Safety
 Should be understood and practiced by
everyone.
 Should follow workplace standards.
 Assures safe and healthy working conditions.
 Protects people (you and others) from injury.
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4. OSHA
 Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
 “Assure as far as possible every working
man and woman in the nation safe and
healthful working conditions and to preserve
our human resources”
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5. Personal Attire
 Should be appropriate for the job you are doing.
 Wear shoes that enclose the foot.
 Avoid sandals and slip on shoes when operating
equipment that moves or rolls.
 Wear low or medium heels, wear slip resistant
shoes.
 Pants should not be long enough to cause tripping.
 Gloves should be worn for hot, rough, sharp objects
(including lighting).
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6. Using Electricity
 Do not use equipment with damaged cords.
 Use heavy-duty extension cords.
 Never use electrical equipment on a wet surface.
 Keep equipment dry.
 Do not touch electrical switches or equipment with
wet hands.
 Do not over-load electrical circuits.
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7. Other Electrical and Lighting Safety
Considerations
• Never plug in more than two lights into
one outlet (you could overload an
electrical circuit).
• Always wear gloves when touching
lighting equipment (even if you don’t
think it is hot).
• Always warn your cast and crew when
turning on set lighting.

8. Protecting Your Hearing
 If you must shout to be heard from three feet away,
the noise is too loud; hearing protection should be
used
 Decibels
Over 115 decibels over unsafe
 Indications of hearing damage
Ringing in the ears
Muffled hearing
Talking too loud
 Hearing damage is permanent
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9. Workstations
 Keyboard and work surfaces - arms should
form a 90-degree angle.
 Top of the monitor - no higher than eye level.
 Chairs - comfortable backrest, your feet
should be flat on the floor.
 Chairs or stools should never be leaned or
tilted back.
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10. Lifting And Carrying
 Size up the load
 Lift using your leg muscles – not your back
(don’t bend over)
 Think before you lift
 Obtain help
 Balance the load
 Carry less, more times- make several trips
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11. Maintenance
 Clean your work area before the end of the
period
 Store equipment and materials in approved
locations
 Floors must be free of objects and cords that
might cause falls
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12. Fire Safety
 Type A fires - combustible materials, paper,
cloth, wood
 Type B fires – flammable liquids, solvents, oil
 Type C fires – electrical equipment or electrical
wires
 Using the wrong type of extinguisher on the
wrong type of fire can be dangerous
 PASS method
 Pull the pin,
 Aim low,
 Squeeze the handle,
 Sweep from side to side
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13. In Case Of An Accident
 Immediately report accidents to the teacher
 The school nurse should treat injuries
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14. Human Error
 The one element common to most accidents
 Not applying common sense is the cause of
most accidents!
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15. Where to Get More Information
 Operation/instruction and manuals for
equipment used in the individual lab. Most
have a section on safety at the beginning that
covers general information
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16. Safety Test
 There will be a safety test over today’s notes.
 You must make 100% on the test.
 You must re-take the test until you make
100% (for the grade book, each time you
retest you lose 10 points).
 You cannot use equipment until you have
passed the safety test.
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