Setting Up a Healthy Work Environment A-13Checking You Is your work area set up to promote a natural andrelaxing working position with frequently used workitems within close reach? Do you take frequent short breaks? Do you stretch and walk during your breaks? Do you vary your tasks during the day? Do you have regular eye checkups? Do you contact your doctor if you feel any sustaineddiscomfort?For more information on workstation setup, see the AmericanNational Standard for Human Factors Engineering of VisualDisplay Terminal Workstations. ANSI/HFS Standard No.100-1988. The Human Factors Society, Inc., P.O. Box1369, Santa Monica, California 90406This appendix was prepared in consultation with Dr. DavidRempel of the University of California/San FranciscoErgonomics Program and Mr. M.F. Schneider ofHUMANTECH, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.
