The work starts with training — a required prerequisite for individual workstation visits. The class lasts for 90 minutes.

Computer Safety Training Class

• Scope of the Problem
  Thousands of cases of cumulative trauma are reported every year. Most go unreported. The massive increase in these injuries directly paralells the appearance of desktop computing.
  
  
• Why Now?
  The computer is inherently different from the typewriter because there are no built-in pauses to allow fresh blood and nutrients to reach tissues. We no longer change the paper, brush on "White-Out,", or walk to the filing cabinet.
  
  
• Impact on Business
  The loss of real profits from lost time, increased premiums, and the replacement and training of new hires. It is in fact the hardest workers who are prone. This is, after all, an overuse injury. Total costs of a cumulative trauma Workers' Compensation injury are said to average $30,000. Many exceed $100,000.
  
  
• Impact on Individuals
  The experience of disability is extremely traumatic, and is happening to far too many people when it can be avoided. Loss of self-esteem, dependence on friends and family, reduced income, fear for the future, and being in the grip of the insurance and medical system are nightmares worth avoiding.
  
  
• Anatomy of the Injuries
  We have given over our bodies to a modern medical system that actually needs us to participate in our own care and understand our own bodies. The Onsight training explains the anatomy of cumulative trauma in accessible terms that foster an appreciation for just how remarkable our bodies are. Once we know the limits, we can respect them.

  What is carpal tunnel syndrome anyway? Most people don't know the answer, that it is only one of a suite of possible injuries. The training demystifies the nature of the problems.
  

• Workstation Ergonomics
  The principles of how to locate the keyboard, monitor, mouse, how to adjust a chair, and the effects of lighting are actually common sense matters that we have not needed to concern ourselves with in the past. Ergonomic knowledge is simply a gap that needs to be filled to achieve our society's "right relationship" to computing.
  
  
• Safe Working Habits
  The best ergonomics will not protect someone completely. It is equally important to bring good health to the computer with good diet and exercise, and to practice valuable habits like full breathing, resting the eyes, standing and moving several times each hour, keeping a light touch on the keyboard, and more.
  
  
• Real life examples
  The Onsight training draws from a library of photography from workstation consultations to demonstrate the most common conditions we find in the real world that increase the risk of cumulative trauma injury.
  
  
• Excellent graphics
  All of Onsight's training materials are of the highest quality design. The presentation is supported by professionally produced 35mm slide graphics. All equipment is supplied by Onsight.