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1-2 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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HINT: SELF-CHECK: After reviewing the information in this chapter, double-check your postures and
habits using the section
Self-Check
on page 24.