Office Safety Tips - For a Tech-Geek Workforce
Posted 04/14/2009 at 8:55pm
| by Jon Phillips
8. Use Caution When Entering Flux Capacitor Discharge Zones

While flux capacitors once required installation in a DeLorean DMC-12 sports coupe, these time-traveling devices can now be positively discharged in laboratory environments, thereby posing new risks to an office-bound geek workforce. When working in or traveling through a Flux Capacitor Discharge Zone, make sure to respect a 15-foot perimeter around the device. Failure to maintain a safe distance could result in immediate disposition to 15th Century China, or worse, a reliving of United States history, 2000 through the present.

Official Xbox Magazine senior associate editor Ryan McCaffrey is Future US’s own onsite Certified Flux Capacitor Technician (CFCT). With years of experience in OSHA-approved flux dispersal, he is the only Future US employee qualified to manipulate time/space relationships.

9. Cut Away From the Blister Pack

The blister pack has become the defacto packaging solution for any nerd-class gizmo or gadget that can be comfortably cradled in a single hand. Blister packs are durable, space-efficient, inexpensive to produce, and tamper- and theft-resistant. They are also impossible to open without the aid of industrial-grade metal shears. Nonetheless, office geeks are wont to attempt blister pack separation with lesser tools: common scissors, letter openers, xacto knives, etc. While Maclife.com discourages this practice, we will still issue an advisory to those insist on living on the edge: Cut AWAY From the Blister Pack.
Plastic kills, Timmy.

Follow the example of Mac|Life reviews editor Ray Aguilera, and wear eye protection during blister pack separation maneuvers. Indeed, 6,000 Americans visit the emergency room every year as a result of blister pack misadventures. We kid you not – 6,000. It’s true. Because we read it on Wikipedia.

10. Control Cheetos Dust – It’s Combustible

Students of industrial disaster are well aware of the explosive properties of dust. Airborne suspensions of powdered coal, metal, flour, sugar and sawdust have all ignited to catastrophic results. In fact, any type of dust particles less than 500 micrometers in diameter pose a threat. So, if you think your dust-producing Cheetos are a benign snack food, somehow exempt from the laws of physics, you’re wrong -- horribly, horribly wrong.
Any enclosed work area where Cheetos are consumed on a regular basis should be regularly swept and dusted. And control your Bugles dust too.

Behold, the cheesy orange peril.