Working from home workers may put their health at risk by using poorly designed workstations

Working from home workers may put their health at risk by using poorly designed workstations

Because there is a possibility that employees will take advantage and work very little from home, some employers are cautious about allowing employees to work from home. By requiring employees to complete worksheets in order to account for their time, some businesses attempt to mitigate this. Some even necessitate a certain number of computer keystrokes. Sadly, such control measures frequently fail, are counterproductive, or are ineffective. Instead of measuring inputs, I would suggest measuring outputs. It shouldn’t matter how much longer or shorter the task took if the person is able to complete it to a high enough standard. Clearly, the opposite is also true. However, it must be acknowledged that some occupations are better suited to output measurement than others.

What about safety and health? Working from home workers may put their health at risk by using poorly designed workstations and not taking enough breaks from repetitive tasks, according to some. Some even recommend that employers conduct health and safety checks on the premises of their employees. That might be okay if there was a lot of physical labor involved and the place was a workshop, but if someone is just working from home as an office, it probably is too intrusive. The employer could reach a reasonable compromise by mandating that each employee receive adequate training in healthy and safe work practices.

Frameworks, including Open FAIR, distill danger right into a shape of probabilities, frequencies, and values. Each essential machine or system is taken into consideration independently, with a possibility of disruption or loss occasion paired with a likely value.

For IT managers a good, easy definition for RISK can be from the Open FAIR version which states:Risk control need to observe a based system acknowledging many elements of the IT operations system, with unique issues for safety and structures availability.

The Threat from Cyberspace. This is a risk that is often overlooked, but it is one of the most serious. It is essential for an employee to maintain all of the cyber-security standards that would apply if he were working in the office on the company’s computer whether he is using his own computer or a device linked to a computer. This requires establishing guidelines for Internet and social media use as well as a policy for passwords, backups, encryption, malware protection, and firewalls across the entire organization.