Questionaire Survey of VDT (Video Display Terminal) Operators at the New York State Departments of Motor Vehicles and Taxation and Finance

摘要

The report describes the results of a questionnaire survey of video display terminal (VDT) operators at the New York State Departments of Motor Vehicles and Taxation and Finance in Albany, New York. A complementary report on ergonomic evaluations of 40 VDT work-stations within these departments was prepared under separate cover. The questionnaire survey and ergonomic evaluations were conducted at the initiative of the New York State/Civil Service Employees Association (NYS/CSEA) Safety and Health Maintenance Committee. Technical assistance for this field investigation was sought from and provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Such assistance was directed toward examining VDT workstation factors, job task features and general environmental conditions that could result in musculo-skeletal and visual strain among the VDT operators at the two departments. The survey results reported here are descriptive in nature and apply only to the departments that were studied. Generalization of the findings and recommendations to other VDT workplaces must await further evaluations of the results of this investigation and related VDT research that is currently in progress.