Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desk job is supposed to be safe. No one needs a hard hat to type a memo or protective goggles to shuffle paper. But as the work force migrates from the shop floor to the corporate cubicle, millions of people face what some think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT. * Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory...
While taking precautions, firms emphasize the paucity of conclusive studies. "We see no medical evidence that indicates that VDTs are actually harmful to employees," says a spokesman for New York Telephone. Concurs J. Donald Millar, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: "The VDT revolution has produced impressively few problems" for worker safety...
...More time and money have been spent denying there's a problem than dealing with it," says Deborah Meyer, associate director for 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. Labor and management in California agree on most of the remedies, according to Laura Stock of the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley. "The argument," she says, "seems to be about who has ultimate control of the workplace...
Computer manufacturers have responded to health concerns by shielding their products against radiation leakage and introducing tiltable models with anti- glare features. "When you look at the recommendations for how the screens should be designed, you find that most of the newer computer models already . have the improvements," Stock says. "The problem is that many of the VDTs that are being used in the workplace have been around for ten or 15 years...
...preventing tragedies lies in the education of both the public and health-care professionals. Mothers who have experienced postpartum distress have started support groups; Depression after Delivery, based in Yardley, Pa., has 14 chapters around the country. Families that have suffered the most devastating loss are trying to contribute too. Thompson's husband Jeff is lobbying California legislators for a bill that will enable women accused of infanticide to remain in custody at a hospital. The couple has found the courage to go on and lead a normal life: in May 1987, four years after killing her baby, Thompson gave...