[Evaluation of the working load in subjects using equipment fitted with VDU].
In Italy the health and safety of VDU workers is regulated by section VI of Legislative Decree 626/94 (with later modifications). In compliance with this law, employers shall be obliged to analyse workstations, assess and reduce risks; they shall also identify any worker who habitually uses display screen equipment as significant part of his normal work (20 hours per week). Our study presents a new method, named WODSE (Workers of Display Set Equipment), for the objective evaluation of VDU workers effort. It is a software created for measurement of VDT usage time, able to calculate weekly use for each worker. We applied this method to tellers of a great national services agency, obtaining an improvement of VDU risk assessment and, consequently, management.
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Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma. vincenzocamisa@hotmail.com
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D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D016272:Occupational Health; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*