Assignment 5 health and safety

Health and safety

Windows should be fitted with non-reflective blinds. The screen should be positioned away from light reflection and glare. The best position is at right angles to the source of natural light.

A fire extinguisher suitable for electrical fires (such as carbon dioxide) should be available

In order to reduce eyestrain, users should look away from the screen and focus on a distant object from time to time - this will relax their eye muscles. The wearing of spectacles can help.

Work station when working at a computer there affects you can have if you are at a computer for too long for example you can get eye strain if you sharing at a computer for to long and also get headache and always make sure you have your chair in the correct direction for sitting because you don’t want to end up having back problems when at a computer make sure you give your hands and arms a rest because you don’t want them to be numb and swelling here is a few examples of what you should not have around your  desk area  

1.      There should be no trailing wires

2.      Food and drink should not be placed near a machine

3.      Electrical sockets must not be overloaded

4.      There must be adequate space around the machine

5.      Heating and ventilation must be suitable

Benches must be strong enough to support the computers

Health and safety steps when connecting peripherals

When you are working with peripherals you should always make sure that all plugs are turned off because you don’t want to get a electric shock then when you get all your peripherals connected just don’t touch any wires inside because this will lead to a electric shock if you leave It on for too long the peripherals can over heat.When connecting peripherals it is best that you keep your desk tidy so that any objects don’t get tangled up with wires or components also. If you do not keep your workstation tidy it could lead to wires over heating when any of your objects cover your components this can be a health and safety issue. Also it is very important that you don’t have any kind of liquid near your workstation this is a big health and safety issue. This could lead to you either spilling your drink over your computer which costs a lot of money or spill your drink over components this will lead to your workstation going on fire. It is best that you keep your workstation tidy so that any of these issues doesn’t happen to you.

Assignment 5 Connecting two peripherals to a computer

Connecting two peripherals to a computer

In this document I am going to explain and show you  how to connect speakers and camera to a computer.

Here is a print screen showing the camera connecting to the pc in my computer as you can see it is not to hard to find . 

The next print screen is showing you when you click in the camera usb in the hard disc and all you have to after that is click on the file and it will take you in the next stage

The final print screen is showing you the images that we took during are assignment showing how to connect a camera and speaker correctly.

Here is a print screen of me turning off the plugs before plugging in the speakers.

This is a print screen shot of the back of the CPU before we plug the speakers in

The following print screen is of me kneeing down putting the speakers into the back of the cup

in the final screen shot it is me kneeing down to  connecting the usb to the computer and also connecting the camera to the usb .I check to see if the speakers were working so i went on to youtube and played a song and turn the speakers up loud  also with the camera i just went to the memory of the camera to see if the pcitures were there. 

Task 3

3 Purchasing a pc

My friend has come to me asking for help because he is getting very bad quality when watching videos and DVDs and playing games on the computer I said to make sure that there is no dust in the inside off the computer and make sure he cleans it with some tissues and if he is still having problems with the quality he should clean the ram and restart and if it does work he should use Clean Ram which is designed to clean up your computer RAM from unnecessary memory allocation it is a free software to download. A ram knows as Random Access Memory RAM provides space for your computer to read and write data to be accessed by the CPU central processing unit. When people refer to a computers memory they usually mean its RAM. And they come in all shapes and size etc graphic cards is what gives you the game graphics on your computer or console and if you get very quality graphics on your computer or console it could be that the graphics cards could  have been worn away which means you have to go get a new one if you get a very good graphic cards it will be a bit  expensive but it will be worth it though I would tell my friend to get a expensive one because it will be far better than a cheap on he has also told me he has virus on his computer when he first got his computer he should of got free anti virus software are he could of downloaded firewall which tells you if you have any virus and it will delete but if he did not have them he would have wipe everything off his computer and restart it he just have to watch websites he goes on and don’t open any random emails because they can carry virus  in them.