Health Risks of Computer Use: Injuries, Policies, Students and Workers

This report delves into the injuries associated with computer use, focusing on the health risks faced by both students and workers. It begins with a background highlighting the prevalence of computer use in daily life and the resulting health hazards. The report emphasizes the importance of addressing these issues, including potential permanent damage to vital body parts, and introduces the Occupational Safety policy as a key framework. Ethical considerations are also discussed, framing computer use in the context of avoiding self-harm. Examples from literature and organizational demonstrations are provided, along with a discussion of limitations and potential future developments. The report covers a range of injuries, including eye strain, musculoskeletal disorders, and psychological issues like stress and insomnia. The conclusion stresses the importance of self-care, promoting user-friendly features, and practicing stress-reduction techniques to mitigate the negative impacts of prolonged computer use. The report also includes a list of relevant references.

INJURIES RELATED TO
COMPUTER USE BY
STUDENTS AND WORKERS
STUDENT ID

BACKGROUND
• The computer is an essential toll is the every day life of both the children and the adult workers.
Though long usage of computers increases the chance of several health hazards or injuries.
• It is important to consider and treat these injuries and challenges while using computer since these
can lead to permanent damage of certain body parts including the vital are, eye, brain of an human
being.
• In the context of the injuries related to the use of the computer, one of the major policy that can be
highlighted is the OHS (Occupational Safety policy). The policy explains the importance of safety,
welfare and health of the individuals who are engaged with the computer at the workplace.
• The concept of ethics includes the systemizing and recommending the nature if human whether
they are right or wrong. In the current scenario, the use of the computer is a question of ethics
since individual uses computer for working purpose and not for hurting or damaging themselves.
Hence using of harmful tool is question of ethics.

EXAMPLES FROM THE LITERATURE
Source: (Rosenfield, 2011)

HOW THE PLACEMENT ORGANIZATION
DEMONSTRATED THE AREA
Source: (Carayon, Smith &
Haims, 1999)

LIMITATIONS/FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
Although there lies a lot of help or advantages towards the use
of the computers in the daily life both for the children and the
workers at the employment, some of the limitations are as
follows.
• Eye strain and carpel tunnel
• Too much sitting
• Short attention span and too much of multitasking
• Potential loss of privacy
• Muscle and joint injuries, neck and shoulder pain
• Tennis elbow
• Computer vision syndrome
• Posterior cervical dorsal
syndrome
• Injuries at disc
• Brain death
• Obesity, stress and
headache
• Radiation
• Musculoskeletal disorder
• Insomnia or sleeping

PERSONAL LEARNINGS
While the headaches, the muscular
pains and the stress levels are on
the rise both for the children and
the adults, its is important for us to
remember that it is us that needs
to take care of ourselves.
Humans being the inventor of the
computer should not be damaged
by their invention like these. We
should engaged in best
investments in out time, look for
some of the user friendly features
with correct amount of light for our
eyes, practise the stress Source: (Rosenfield, 2011)

REFERENCES
• Carayon, P., Smith, M. J., & Haims, M. C. (1999). Work organization, job stress, and work-related
musculoskeletal disorders. Human factors, 41(4), 644-663.
• Gerr, F., Marcus, M., Ensor, C., Kleinbaum, D., Cohen, S., Edwards, A., ... & Monteilh, C. (2002). A
prospective study of computer users: I. Study design and incidence of musculoskeletal symptoms and
disorders. American journal of industrial medicine, 41(4), 221-235.
• Rosenfield, M. (2011). Computer vision syndrome: a review of ocular causes and potential
treatments. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 31(5), 502-515.
• Sultan-Taïeb, H., Parent-Lamarche, A., Gaillard, A., Stock, S., Nicolakakis, N., Hong, Q. N., ... & Berthelette,
D. (2017). Economic evaluations of ergonomic interventions preventing work-related musculoskeletal
disorders: a systematic review of organizational-level interventions. BMC public health, 17(1), 935.
• World Internet Users Statistics and 2019 World Population Stats. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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