OCN health and safety

1) Six potential safety hazards within theclassroom are:
- Water of any kind near the computers.
- Running around the class.
- Wires around the floor of the class room.
- Bags under the tables when not needed.
- Throwing items around the room.
- Eating and drinking within the room.

2) to make the classroom a safer working enironment we should:
- ban all food from the room because of the computers.
- place bags under the tables.
- pass items to each other.
- place wires nearer to the table or the walks or place a warning sign near by or tape the wire down to the floor.

3) 3 health and safety issues that may arise from using computers are;
- Not sitting in a right way.
- Damage your eyes.
- Gives you migrains

OCN (questionaire answers)

1) Digital hardware devices currently used, avilable to artists are and what they are used for:
Keyboard - to type up work.
Mouse - to move objects or highlight text.
Graphics tablet - to help you draw and colour in photoshops or other art programes.
Scanner - to copy images on to the computer.
Printer - to print out your final piece or draft piece of work.
Digital camera - take images and will be able to change bits also by using a programe.
USB momery stick - to save work you have done on a computer.


2) Digital software applications that we can use for art are and what they do:
Photoshop - to edit images and to mix images together.
Illustion - to draw shapes to make in to a final image.
Dreamweaver - to be able to make websites.
Flash - can make animate images and also be able to do websites
Imovie - will be able to edit films that you have take or to add effects.

3) DPI means Dots per inch.

4) The preferred resoulution for:
Print is 300
Web is 72

5) The following resolutions for:
Greyscale - black and white.
RGB - red, green and blue.
CMYK - cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

6) The following file formats are:
PSD - photoshop documents (layers)
JPEC - compress images (flat)
TIFF - tag image file format (more used in publishing e.g newws and mags)
GIF - animation or moving files (flash art work)

7) The advantages and disadvantages of using a digital camera are:
Advantages -
1)Post process of images
2)Electronic record system (momery card)
3)Sent to 3rd party
4)90% decrease of radiation
5)change the image

Disadvantages -
1)Cost
2)if yoy delete images wont b able to get them back.
3)dont really get the potography feel to it using the chemicals to make your image.

FMP idea

My idea is to make a mini company simliar to Emily Strange and Ruby Gloom (Gothic, Punk, Skater theme). I've started to do a few ideas what its going to look like and whose my main charactor... (Dolly Patch... a rag dolly puppet). Sooo this year hopfully theres NO bunnies of any kind :P.

Copyright

Copyright:
It is a good idea for you to mark your copyright work with the copyright symbol © followed by your name and the date, to warn others against copying it, but it is not legally necessary in the UK.

1. original literary works, e.g. novels, instruction manuals, computer programs, lyrics for songs, articles in newspapers, some types of databases, but not names or titles.
   
   
2. original dramatic works, including works of dance or mime;
   
   
3. original musical works;
   
   
4. original artistic works, e.g. paintings, engravings, photographs, sculptures, collages, works of architecture, technical drawings, diagrams, maps, logos;
   
   
5. published editions of works, i.e. the typographical arrangement of a publication;
   
   
6. sound recordings, which may be recordings on any medium, e.g. tape or compact disc, and may be recordings of other copyright works, e.g. musical or literary;
   
   
7. films, including videos; and
   
   
8. broadcasts.

So the above works are protected by copyright, regardless of the medium in which they exist and this includes the internet. Copyright does not protect ideas. It protects the way the idea is expressed in a piece of work, but it does not protect the idea itself.

Health & Safety Part 3

Health and saftey (display screen equipment) :
when using a screen equipment (PC) :

• You should really be only in front of the screen about 4 hrs with breaks in between the 4hrs. example 5 minutes every hour or 15 minutes every 2 hours.

• The way you sit in front of the screen also effects you. (look at the picture below).
  

1. Adjust the sit so that you can see the screen at its best dont make the sit to high or to low as this may course neck problems after while or after a long period of time.
2. alway sit stright so that your back is leaning agist the back of the chair.
3. If there are problems involing in your hieght (tall or short) there are things that can make you fell better. for example if you have short legs and your legs are dangling above the floor you can get a wege like int he picture below to help you ... for example for a tall person you could get a taller table to help stop your legs hittin the table.
4. there are also a few products now that you can by int he shops to help you provent any ache or pains... like a mouse write support (look below)
   

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Health & Safety Part 2

Electricity at work regualtions (portable appliance testing) :-

Types of Performance Equipment

• Transportable-Equipment that has a flexible cable and plug fitted, capable of being moved, but generally is not. (PC)
  

• Portable-Equipment that can be, and often is, moved. (Laptop)
  

• Hand-held-Equipment that is held whilst in use. (Mobile)

Inspection and testing equipment - best to go the web site that I got the information from:
http://www.enlightenment.co.uk/frames/ref/ref-pat.htm

Health & Safety Part 1

Control of substances hazardous to health ( COSHH) :-

Little details about COSHH : Its to protect people at work. It helps the employe and employer with step by step guidence to the control of subtances hazardous to health.
Some examples of the effects of hazardous substances include:-

• skin irritation, dermatitis or even skin cancer from frequent contact with oils;
• asthma resulting from sensitisation to isocyanates in paints or adhesives;
• being overcome by toxic fumes - injuries or death can be caused by the substances themselves or by falling after losing consciousness;
• poisoning by drinking toxic liquids from bottles thought to contain water or soft drinks - sometimes with fatal results;
• cancer, which can appear many years after first exposure to carcinogenic (cancer-causing) substances at work;
• infection from bacteria and other micro-organisms ('biological agents').

Examples of warning labels :-
Very toxic or toxic Harmful or irritant Corrosive

(most of the details was taken from http://www.e-radiography.net/regsetc/coshh.htm)