Regulations provide very clear guidance as to the types of interventions required to protect workers from injury or adverse symptoms caused through the use of display screen equipment. This review examines all the literature related to assessing the benefits of these and other interventions. No clear benefits could be found for any interventions, save for a possibility that alternative pointing devices could be beneficial. The accuracy of the DSE regulations could be called into question.
Evidence from:
S Brewer et al. J Occup Rehabil. (2006) Vol. 16 p 325 – 358
“Workplace interventions to prevent musculoskeletal and visual symptoms and disorders among computer users: A systematic review”
The most positive finding here was possibly that DSE style interventions had not been shown to do harm.
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