Safety and Comfort 12-29

Monitor

•Is your monitor positioned in front of you and at a comfortable viewing distance, about arm’s length? Or if you look at a paper document more than your monitor, is your document holder in front of you with your monitor to one side?

•Are the text and images on your monitor easily visible in a comfortably seated position?

•Have you eliminated glare and bright reflections on your monitor, without compromising your posture?

•Is your monitor’s entire viewing area located just below your eye height?

•Is your monitor tilted so your face and the monitor are parallel?

•Have you adjusted the brightness and contrast controls to improve the quality of text and graphics?

•Is your document holder positioned near the monitor, at the same distance, height, and angle as the monitor?

Notebook Computing

•Do you change postures frequently?

•Do you avoid resting your wrists on your thighs while typing?

•To avoid neck fatigue when using the computer on a sofa or bed, do you avoid reclining too far?

•Where possible, have you tried using a full-size keyboard and detached pointing device, such as a mouse or trackball, with your notebook computer?

•Similarly, have you tried using a full-size monitor?