World Health Organization ; World Health Organization Offeset Publication No. 99, (Part 1): Visual Display Terminals and Workers’ Health

By World Health Organization

Book Id: WPLBN0000061463
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 4.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization ; World Health Organization Offeset Publication No. 99, (Part 1): Visual Display Terminals and Workers’ Health
Author:	World Health Organization
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Organization, W. H. (n.d.). World Health Organization ; World Health Organization Offeset Publication No. 99, (Part 1). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
PREFACE Early awareness and rapid communication of findings pertaining to workers' health and safety problems are essential for the early detection and control of occupational hazards. The Workers Health Programme of the World Health Organization is making every effort to be responsive to this need. Reports of potential health risks connected with the use of visual display terminals are of major concern to the millions of workers who use them as a part of their daily work activities. This technology is proliferating very rapidly, not only in industrialized countries, but in developing countries as well. In the wake of this expanding use of visual display terminals and the expressed concern about adverse health effects among visual display terminal operators, the World Health Organization asked Dr Ulf OV. Bergqvist and Professor Bengt Knave, of the National Board of Occupational Health and Safety in Sweden, to prepare a review of information bearing on this problem and to evaluate it critically. This document was circulated to the WHO Collaborating Centres for Occupational Health for review and comment prior to a meeting of a Working Group on Occupational Health Aspects in the Use of Visual Display Terminals that was held in Geneva on 2-6 December 1985.' The manuscript was finalized after this meeting and is published in the hope that it will facilitate the transfer of technical information not otherwise readily , available to those responsible for improving workers' health.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Eye and visual problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Musculoskeletal disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Stress related disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Skin disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Adverse reproductive outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . GENERAL INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Purpose and scope of this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Health issues in visual display terminal operations and the possible causal factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Research results and evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . GUIDELINES FOR WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS . . . . . . 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Intent and applicability of these recommendations . . . . 3.3 Recommendations concerning the operator . . . . . . . . . 3.4 Recommendations concerning the visual display terminal . 3.5 Recommendations concerning the workplace . . . . . . . . 3.6 Recommendations concerning the work organization . . . . 3.7 Recommendations concerning incidence of adverse health effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .