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SAFETY ON THE INTERNET

Ken Roberts, CIH, CSP

Pima County Facilities Management

Tucson, Arizona

kroberts@mail.co.pima.az.us

SAFETY ON THE INTERNET

• OVERVIEW & DEFINITIONS

• BROWSERS

• MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

• CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY

• SEARCH ENGINES

• WHITE PAGES

• SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

OVERVIEW

THE INTERNET IS A GROUP OF COMPUTERS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS THAT ARE PHYSICALLY CONNECTED AND SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE.

OVERVIEW

THE COMMON LANGUAGE USED ON THE INTERNET IS THE TERMINAL CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL (TCP/IP) .

OVERVIEW

ONE ESTIMATE HAS BEEN MADE THAT THERE ARE OVER 90 MILLION E-MAIL ADDRESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE. THERE ARE PROBABLY TWICE THAT MANY WORLD-WIDE.

OVERVIEW

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

THE CRITICAL COMPONENT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN YOUR COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET…… TYPICALLY THE MODEM

56 KILOBAUD MODEMS ARE AVAILABLE

OVERVIEW

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

UPGRADING YOUR CONNECTION SPEED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WILL LIKELY PAY FOR ITSELF BY INCREASED CONVENIENCE AND DECREASED CONNECTION TIMES.

OVERVIEW

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!

SOFTWARE USED TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET IS INEXPENSIVE.

OVERVIEW

CONNECTION OPTIONS:

LAN (LOCAL AREA NETWORK) - USED IN WORKPLACES

COMMERCIAL SERVICES:

MCI AOL

OVERVIEW

CONNECTION OPTIONS:

LOCAL INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS (ISP)

VARYING LEVELS OF USER SUPPORT

USE A POINT-TO-POINT PROTOCOL

OVERVIEW

CONNECTION OPTIONS:

NEW VERSIONS OF MACINTOSH AND WINDOWS OPERATIONG SYSTEMS HAVE INTERNET-CAPABLE SOFTWARE BUILT INTO THEM THAT WORK WITH THE PPP CONNECTION

OVERVIEW

RULES OF THUMB:

BE READY FOR CHANGE

THE MORE YOU USE IT THE BETTER YOU GET

BE WILLING TO EXPERIMENT

OVERVIEW

RULES OF THUMB:

LOOK FOR HELP FROM THE INTERNET ITSELF - FAQs

FIND AN EXPERIENCED USER - ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS

DEFINITIONS

HTML - HYPERTEXT MARK-UP LANGUAGE

THE COMPUTER CODE THAT MAKES THE INTERNET POSSIBLE

DEFINITIONS

URLS - UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR

TAG://NODE-NAME/PATH

EXAMPLE:

http://www.epa.gov/iaq

DEFINITIONS

TWO EXCELLENT RESOURCES:

SAFETY & HEALTH ON THE INTERNET

RALPH B. STUART, III

CHRISTOPHER MOORE

OFFICIAL INTERNET DICTIONARY

EDITOR: RUSS BAHORSKY

BROWSERS

POPULAR BROWSERS:

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR

MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER

LYNX

SPYGLASS MOSAIC

BROWSERS

NETMANAGE WEBSURFER

IBM WEBEXPLORER

AMERICA ONLINE’S BROWSERS

BROWSERS

UPDATES ARE CONSTANT

DOWNLOADS ARE OFTEN FREE

PLUG-INS:

SOUND

MUSIC

MOVIES

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

MAIL LISTS ARE A CLEVER WAY TO USE E-MAIL

SPECIFIC COMMUNITY FORUMS

SEND OR POST MESSAGES TO THE LIST OR TO INDIVIDUALS

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

SAFETYThis is a VERY ACTIVE mailing list (30-50 messages per day) with over 2300 subscribers representing academia, industry, the military and government agencies.

Subscription address: listserv@list.uvm.eduSend messages to: safety@list.uvm.edu

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

SUBSCRIBING TO SAFETY

To: listserv@list.uvm.edu

Cc: LEAVE BLANK

Subject: LEAVE BLANK

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

SUBSCRIBING TO SAFETY

THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE SHOULD BE:

SUBSCRIBE SAFETY (YOUR NAME)

SUBSCRIBE SAFETY KEN ROBERTS

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

LIST OF EH&S RELATED MAIL LISTS

www.ccohs.ca/resources/listserv.htm

www.mrg.ab.ca/christie

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

NEWSGROUPS ARE ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS

ATTRACT MORE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

MESSAGES SORTED INTO GROUPS BASED ON SUBJECT - NEWSGROUPS

MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS

MICROSOFT & NETSCAPE PROVIDE BOTH E-MAIL AND NEWS READER SOFTWARE BUILT IN

EXAMPLE OF A NEWS SERVER SITE

NEWS.ARIZONA.EDU

CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY

MANY PEOPLE SURF THE WEB UNDER THE ILLUSION THSAT THEIR ACTIONS ARE PRIVATE AND ANONYMOUS

EVERY TIME YOU VISIT A SITE, YOU LEAVE A CALLING CARD THAT REVEALS WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM, WHAT KIND OF COMPUTER YOU HAVE, AND MANY OTHER DETAILS

CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY

MOST SITES KEEP LOGS OF ALL VISITORS

COOKIES ARE A GENERAL MECHANISM WHICH SERVER SIDE CONNECTIONS CAN USE TO BOTH STORE AND RETRIEVE INFORMATION ON THE CLIENT SIDE OF THE CONNECTION

CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY

A (COMPUTER) VIRUS IS A PROGRAM (A BLOCK OF EXECUTABLE CODE) WHICH ATTACHES ITSELF TO, OVERWRITES OR OTHERWISE REPLACES ANOTHER PROGRAM IN ORDER TO REPRODUCE ITSELF WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PC USER.

CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY

IF YOU HAVE A GOOD ANTIVIRUS PACKAGE, USE IT!

BETTER STILL, USE MORE THAN ONE!!

WHERE TO GET HELP

alt.comp.virus

SEARCH ENGINES

GENERAL PURPOSE SEARCH ENGINES ARE OFTEN THE EASIEST WAY TO LOOK UP INFORMATIONON THE WWW

ALTA VISTA EXCITE

HOTBOT INFOSEEK

LYCOS YAHOO

OPENTEXT WEBCRAWLER

SEARCH ENGINES

META SEARCH ENGINES ACCESS A NUMBER OF GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES WITH A SINGLE INQUIRY

DOGPILE MAMMA

INFERENCE METACRAWLER

SAVVYSEARCH

SEARCH ENGINES

USE “RELEVANCE RANKING”

EXAMPLE - CONFINED SPACE

1st - SUMMARIES WITH BOTH WORDS IN THE TITLE WOULD APPEAR FIRST

SEARCH ENGINES

USE “RELEVANCE RANKING”

EXAMPLE - CONFINED SPACE

2nd - WHERE THE WORDS APPEARED FREQUENTLY AND/OR NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE TEXT

SEARCH ENGINES

MOST ENGINES ALLOW YOU TO SEARCH FOR PHRASES BY USING QUOTATIONS “ ’’

“CONFINED SPACES” WOULD ONLY RETURN LINKS TO PAGES WHERE THE TWO WORDS APPEAR TOGETHER

SEARCH ENGINES

ALL IN ONE SEARCH POINT

http://www.albany.net/allinone

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

!!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!!!!

NOT ALL INFORMATION THAT COMES OFF THE INTERNET IS ACCURATE!!!

CHECK YOUR RESOURCE(S) CAREFULLY

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

KEN’S FAVORITES SITES

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

MSDS ON LINE

http://siri.uvm.edu/msds/

http://www.chem.uky.edu/resources/msds.html

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

SAFETY LEGISLATION

http://www.osha.gov

http://www/epa.gov/epahome/rules.html

http://www/ccohs.ca/legislation/fulllist.htm

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

ERGONOMIC INFORMATION & CALCULATOR

http://www4.wku/~russellg/ih/ih.html

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

SAFETY RELATED SUPPLIER DATABASE

http://www.ccohs.ca/resources/htm

www.mrg.ab.ca/christie

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

NORTH AMERICAN SAFETY CALENDAR

http://www.ccohs.ca/internet/events.html

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

LIVE SAFETY CHAT ROOMS

http://safetyonline.net/

http://www.worldsafety.com/index.html

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

EMPLOYMENT

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/gsphsdsu/employment.html

SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

http://www.nsc.org/

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