Occupational safety and health in storage procedures of information resources: a case study on the new central library of Cairo University | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2018, Page 98-132 PDF (883.34 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2018.69433 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Ahmed Gaber Hamed* | ||||
| Department Of Library and Information Science-Faculty of Arts Aswan University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study aims at: identifying hazards of storing information resources in libraries and information centers which affect occupational safety and health, evaluating the procedures to overcome and prevent them and planning the correct procedures, with the aim of increasing librarians' knowledge about these hazards and the scientific manners for detecting and preventing them, whether individual or in groups. The study followed "The Case Study Method", depending on "A Chick List" which applied in the new central library of Cairo University as a model of Arabian libraries. The main findings of this research: there were several hazards in storage procedures of information resources, which badly effect on occupational safety and health, caused by: occupational safety and health administration, construction hazards, physical hazards, biological hazards, fire hazards, storage procedures hazards and individual hazards. Hence the study recommended a number of scientific manners for detecting and preventing these hazards, more over librarians should put and unify written standards and laws to protect library employee and its surrounding environment from all hazards | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| information resources; new central library | ||||
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