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SAFETY ON THE INTERNET

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.

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SAFETY ON THE INTERNET

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  1. SAFETY ON THE INTERNET Ken Roberts, CIH, CSP Pima County Facilities Management Tucson, Arizona kroberts@mail.co.pima.az.us

  2. SAFETY ON THE INTERNET • OVERVIEW & DEFINITIONS • BROWSERS • MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS • CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY • SEARCH ENGINES • WHITE PAGES • SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES

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

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

  5. 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.

  6. OVERVIEW HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: THE CRITICAL COMPONENT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN YOUR COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET…… TYPICALLY THE MODEM 56 KILOBAUD MODEMS ARE AVAILABLE

  7. OVERVIEW HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: UPGRADING YOUR CONNECTION SPEED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WILL LIKELY PAY FOR ITSELF BY INCREASED CONVENIENCE AND DECREASED CONNECTION TIMES.

  8. OVERVIEW SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!! SOFTWARE USED TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET IS INEXPENSIVE.

  9. OVERVIEW CONNECTION OPTIONS: LAN (LOCAL AREA NETWORK) - USED IN WORKPLACES COMMERCIAL SERVICES: MCI AOL

  10. OVERVIEW CONNECTION OPTIONS: LOCAL INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS (ISP) VARYING LEVELS OF USER SUPPORT USE A POINT-TO-POINT PROTOCOL

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

  12. OVERVIEW RULES OF THUMB: BE READY FOR CHANGE THE MORE YOU USE IT THE BETTER YOU GET BE WILLING TO EXPERIMENT

  13. OVERVIEW RULES OF THUMB: LOOK FOR HELP FROM THE INTERNET ITSELF - FAQs FIND AN EXPERIENCED USER - ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS

  14. DEFINITIONS HTML - HYPERTEXT MARK-UP LANGUAGE THE COMPUTER CODE THAT MAKES THE INTERNET POSSIBLE

  15. DEFINITIONS URLS - UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR TAG://NODE-NAME/PATH EXAMPLE: http://www.epa.gov/iaq

  16. DEFINITIONS TWO EXCELLENT RESOURCES: SAFETY & HEALTH ON THE INTERNET RALPH B. STUART, III CHRISTOPHER MOORE OFFICIAL INTERNET DICTIONARY EDITOR: RUSS BAHORSKY

  17. BROWSERS POPULAR BROWSERS: NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER LYNX SPYGLASS MOSAIC

  18. BROWSERS NETMANAGE WEBSURFER IBM WEBEXPLORER AMERICA ONLINE’S BROWSERS

  19. BROWSERS UPDATES ARE CONSTANT DOWNLOADS ARE OFTEN FREE PLUG-INS: SOUND MUSIC MOVIES

  20. 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

  21. MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS SAFETY This 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

  22. MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS SUBSCRIBING TO SAFETY To: listserv@list.uvm.edu Cc: LEAVE BLANK Subject: LEAVE BLANK

  23. MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS SUBSCRIBING TO SAFETY THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE SHOULD BE: SUBSCRIBE SAFETY (YOUR NAME) SUBSCRIBE SAFETY KEN ROBERTS

  24. MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS LIST OF EH&S RELATED MAIL LISTS www.ccohs.ca/resources/listserv.htm www.mrg.ab.ca/christie

  25. MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS NEWSGROUPS ARE ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS ATTRACT MORE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC MESSAGES SORTED INTO GROUPS BASED ON SUBJECT - NEWSGROUPS

  26. MAIL LISTS & NEWSGROUPS MICROSOFT & NETSCAPE PROVIDE BOTH E-MAIL AND NEWS READER SOFTWARE BUILT IN EXAMPLE OF A NEWS SERVER SITE NEWS.ARIZONA.EDU

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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.

  30. CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY IF YOU HAVE A GOOD ANTIVIRUS PACKAGE, USE IT! BETTER STILL, USE MORE THAN ONE!! WHERE TO GET HELP alt.comp.virus

  31. 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

  32. SEARCH ENGINES META SEARCH ENGINES ACCESS A NUMBER OF GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES WITH A SINGLE INQUIRY DOGPILE MAMMA INFERENCE METACRAWLER SAVVYSEARCH

  33. SEARCH ENGINES USE “RELEVANCE RANKING” EXAMPLE - CONFINED SPACE 1st - SUMMARIES WITH BOTH WORDS IN THE TITLE WOULD APPEAR FIRST

  34. SEARCH ENGINES USE “RELEVANCE RANKING” EXAMPLE - CONFINED SPACE 2nd - WHERE THE WORDS APPEARED FREQUENTLY AND/OR NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE TEXT

  35. 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

  36. SEARCH ENGINES ALL IN ONE SEARCH POINT http://www.albany.net/allinone

  37. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES !!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!!!! NOT ALL INFORMATION THAT COMES OFF THE INTERNET IS ACCURATE!!! CHECK YOUR RESOURCE(S) CAREFULLY

  38. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES KEN’S FAVORITES SITES

  39. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES MSDS ON LINE http://siri.uvm.edu/msds/ http://www.chem.uky.edu/resources/msds.html

  40. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES SAFETY LEGISLATION http://www.osha.gov http://www/epa.gov/epahome/rules.html http://www/ccohs.ca/legislation/fulllist.htm

  41. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES ERGONOMIC INFORMATION & CALCULATOR http://www4.wku/~russellg/ih/ih.html

  42. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES SAFETY RELATED SUPPLIER DATABASE http://www.ccohs.ca/resources/htm www.mrg.ab.ca/christie

  43. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES NORTH AMERICAN SAFETY CALENDAR http://www.ccohs.ca/internet/events.html

  44. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES LIVE SAFETY CHAT ROOMS http://safetyonline.net/ http://www.worldsafety.com/index.html

  45. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES EMPLOYMENT http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/gsphsdsu/employment.html

  46. SAFETY RELATED RESOURCES NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL http://www.nsc.org/

  47. SURF’S UP

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