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Safety and Comfort
Promoting a Safe and Comfortable Work Environment
Posture, lighting, furniture, work organization, and other work conditions and
habits may affect the way you feel and how well you work. By adjusting your work
environment and personal practices, you may be able to minimize fatigue and
discomfort, and reduce the risk of resulting strains that some scientists believe can
lead to injury.
Important Choices
If you share a computer with others, readjust the work environment to your needs.
Each time you sit down to work, adjust into your comfort zone.
Whenever you use a computer, you make choices that can affect your comfort and
potentially your safety. This is true whether you use a full-size keyboard and
monitor on a desk, a notebook computer, or a wireless keyboard on your lap. In
every case, you choose your working posture and your body’s position relative to
your keyboard, pointing device, monitor, remote control, phone, and any reference
books and papers. You may also have some control over lighting and other factors.
Take Action for Safety and Comfort
Many factors in our work environment determine whether we work efficiently and
in a manner that promotes good health and safety.
By considering, acting on, and periodically reevaluating the recommendations in
this Section, it is possible to create a safer, more comfortable, healthful, and
efficient work environment.
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NOTE:
Some scientists believe that working intensely, or for a long time in
uncomfortable or unnatural positions, may pose risks, such as those mentioned in
the warning. The information included in this Section is designed to help you work
more safely by recommending ways to work more comfortably and effectively.
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SELF-CHECK:
After reviewing the information in this chapter, double-check your
postures and habits using the section, "Self-Check.”