Office Ergonomics
Posted on February 2, 2008
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We have a subject called safety engineering. In this subject we talk about different kinds of safety practices in the work place. The easiest to identify is the real dangerous ones, like wearing hard hats in certain areas, or keeping your limbs far from moving machines.
One favorite topic of our teacher is ergonomics. She seems to be fixated on this. This is probably because most of the work now occurs in an office, sitting in a chair, looking at a computer screen, typing on a keyboard placed on a table. There are only a few instances where hard, manual labor is being done. So our teacher decided to focus on office ergonomics. This branch of safety engineering is focused mostly on the comfort and ease of doing a job and not only on the actual safeness of an object.
Things like repetitive strain injury from typing on a keyboard, or back strain from a poorly designed chair, and others like this. It’s more on the small aches and eventual permanent discomforts of office work that ergonomics focuses on.
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