Physical and Psychosocial Factors in Display Screen Equipment Assessment

The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992.

A European Community directive issued in 1990 set down minimum requirements for health and safety of visual display equipment users. These requirements have now become a legal reality in the UK with the Parliamentary approval of the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992. While only a relatively small section of the legislation is directly relevant to optometric and dispe...

Physical load, psychosocial and individual factors in visual display unit work

Psychosocial factors underlying physical activity

BACKGROUND Given the increasing importance of obesity in China, prevention interventions encouraging physical activity by middle school students are needed. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how a rapid elicitation method can be used to identify salient consequences, referents, and circumstances about physical activity as perceived by middle school students and to provide suggestions f...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Assessment of psychosocial risk factors.

UNLABELLED Aspects of work may not only contribute to physical stress but psychological stress as well. As long as we believe we have adequate control over all aspects of our job, we may experience normal stress. However, if we believe we have little control over job demands, we may suffer from distress with accompanying ill health and possible irrational behaviours. Under distress, the probabi...