WELCOME

Welcome to Queens Park Library

We are situated near Queens Park Train Station in Cannington. With easy access on the Armadale Line please come and visit. Our opening hours are:-

Monday..............9.30am to 8.00pm
Tuesday............ 9.30am to 8.00pm
Wednesday........CLOSED
Thursday...........9.30am to 8.00pm
Friday.................9.30am to 5.00pm
Saturday............9.00am to 3.00pm
Sunday...............CLOSED

Our friendly staff are here to help and there is free internet access to members. We have a large range of resources available to loan and "Storytime" on Friday mornings for pre-school children.

Come and view the latest books or see our new realses via our website go to http://www.canning.wa.gov.au you can also search the library catalogue, reserve a title and review your loans (provided they are not overdue or reserved!)

Hope to see you soon and we look forward to helping you.

Guidelines of Lifting Weight for Men and Women

These are guidelines only - if you are in any doubt as to whether you should not lift a load always seek help from a staff member or use a trolley or lifting tool. Most injuries in the workplace occur when staff are required to lift and carry loads.

CORRECT WAY TO LIFT AND CARRY A LOAD

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Most accidents in the work place happen when staff are involved in duties such as carrying and lifting loads. Manual handling is the transporting or supporting of a load by one or more workers. This may include lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying and moving loads whether by hand or bodily force.

The risks to health from manual handling falls within three main categories:

• Musculoskeletal injuries (i.e. those concerning the muscular or skeletal system of the body) occurring when the effort required to handle the load is beyond the capability of the handler;
  


• Injuries caused by the load falling onto or trapping part of the handler or someone nearby;
  


• Injuries caused by the handler falling, perhaps against the load or other object.
  Musculoskeletal injuries maybe either acute, i.e. as an immediate effect from the manual handling operation, or may be chronic i.e. as a result from continual manual handling operations over a period of time.

Read This Book in 2 days

Just thought I would share with you the most recent book I have read in a record two days. It was a wonderful read and I normally wouldn't have picked up this kind of book in the library to read (have only read a handful of autobiographies in my whole life). Anyway my son is currently doing a project on WWI namely, Gallipoli and while we were at the library this book called "When a dead horse kicks you" is the title of the book. It is a wonderful and sad account of life in Australia at that time and the absolutely awful conditions experienced by soldiers in this devastating war. Such a tragedy and such a waste of life and we are still doing it! Why don't we ever learn. I hope you all may read this wonderful book.

Until next time.

First Day

Welcome everyone, this is my very first blog entry - how exciting! I can't believe how easy all this is, well I even managed to edit my first entry. I am currently a student at TAFE and working part time and I am studying to become a Library Technician.

Writing this blog is currently a TAFE project about libraries and were you aware of how many libraries are out there. It is a very broad field of study and I am enjoying the course immensely.

Well I must do some more research and place my entries online to confirm with my Blog requirements so until the next installment.

Ciao