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In article <31E51297.3828@aol.com>, LECarter <LECarter@aol.com> wrote:
>Congress is voting today (7/11/96) (on a rider to Labor-HHS-Education 
appropriations 
>bill) to stop  the Occupational Safety & Health Admin. (OSHA) from developing 
rules 
>covering Repetitive Stain Injury (RSI, e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome) & from 
even 
>COLLECTING DATA on RSI.  This is the most common problem of office workers & 
computer 
>users.  For more info, see Washington Post, 7/11/96, p. A4.
>
>Call & email your congressman & senator NOW!!  Although businesses have good 
reason to 
>fear the costs of compliance with OSHA regulation, the costs to society (& 
your career) 
>could well be higher if RSI is not better understood & prevented.

Is this article on their web site?  If not could someone please be kind enough 
to post this and give any more background to this story like why the hell they 
are doing this!!!!!

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Nicholas Hoh
4A Kinesiology Ergonomics Option
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Nicholas Hoh wrote:
> 
> In article <31E51297.3828@aol.com>, LECarter <LECarter@aol.com> wrote:
> >Congress is voting today (7/11/96) (on a rider to Labor-HHS-Education
> appropriations
> >bill) to stop  the Occupational Safety & Health Admin. (OSHA) from developing
> rules
> >covering Repetitive Stain Injury (RSI, e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome) & from
> even
> >COLLECTING DATA on RSI.  This is the most common problem of office workers &
> computer
> >users.  For more info, see Washington Post, 7/11/96, p. A4.
> >
> >Call & email your congressman & senator NOW!!  Although businesses have good
> reason to
> >fear the costs of compliance with OSHA regulation, the costs to society (&
> your career)
> >could well be higher if RSI is not better understood & prevented.
> 
> Is this article on their web site?  If not could someone please be kind enough
> to post this and give any more background to this story like why the hell they
> are doing this!!!!!
> 
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> Nicholas Hoh
> 4A Kinesiology Ergonomics Option
> ____________________________________________________________________________
It would be a great improvement - as many of us who know first hand
what a joke OSHA is (more Socialist Demo-Party thinking for you,
better than you can for yourself) - I say Stop OSHA period. Along
with Jimmy Carter's absurd Dept of Education - or at least rename
it what it is - Department of Teacher's Union Lobbyists.
God save us from idiots.
JRC

In article <31E94434.22BE@jrchaff.seanet.com>, jrc
<jrchaff@jrchaff.seanet.com> wrote:

> > In article <31E51297.3828@aol.com>, LECarter <LECarter@aol.com> wrote:
> > >Congress is voting today (7/11/96) (on a rider to Labor-HHS-Education
> > appropriations
> > >bill) to stop  the Occupational Safety & Health Admin. (OSHA) from ...
> > even COLLECTING DATA on RSI.
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> It would be a great improvement - as many of us who know first hand
> what a joke OSHA is (more Socialist Demo-Party thinking for you,

Translation: Ignorance is bliss. Bad stuff doesn't exist if you don't see it.

Parallel application of this logic: Don't spend money on military
information gathering and communication. Then we won't have any wars
because we won't know about any to get involved in.

> God save us from idiots.
> JRC

A sentiment shared by all.

::: mike :::

jrc wrote:

> It would be a great improvement - as many of us who know first hand
> what a joke OSHA is (more Socialist Demo-Party thinking for you,
> better than you can for yourself) - I say Stop OSHA period. 

Yep, there's nothing like maimed employees to jump-start an economy.

In article <31E94434.22BE@jrchaff.seanet.com>, jrc <jrchaff@jrchaff.seanet.com> says:
>
>Nicholas Hoh wrote:
>> 
>> In article <31E51297.3828@aol.com>, LECarter <LECarter@aol.com> wrote:
>> >Congress is voting today (7/11/96) (on a rider to Labor-HHS-Education
>> appropriations
>> >bill) to stop  the Occupational Safety & Health Admin. (OSHA) from developing
>> rules
>> >covering Repetitive Stain Injury (RSI, e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome) & from
>> even
>> >COLLECTING DATA on RSI.  This is the most common problem of office workers &
>> computer
>> >users.  For more info, see Washington Post, 7/11/96, p. A4.
>> >
>> >Call & email your congressman & senator NOW!!  Although businesses have good
>> reason to
>> >fear the costs of compliance with OSHA regulation, the costs to society (&
>> your career)
>> >could well be higher if RSI is not better understood & prevented.
>> 
>> Is this article on their web site?  If not could someone please be kind enough
>> to post this and give any more background to this story like why the hell they
>> are doing this!!!!!
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Nicholas Hoh
>> 4A Kinesiology Ergonomics Option
>> ____________________________________________________________________________
>It would be a great improvement - as many of us who know first hand
>what a joke OSHA is (more Socialist Demo-Party thinking for you,
>better than you can for yourself) - I say Stop OSHA period. Along
>with Jimmy Carter's absurd Dept of Education - or at least rename
>it what it is - Department of Teacher's Union Lobbyists.
>God save us from idiots.
>JRC

As someone who had realtives in the coal mining industry I have a 
different few of this.  Take a look at the number of miners killed
injured, permentantly disable by blacklung, etc. before the Federal
government stepped in and a few years after.  Look at how often 
this industry (and others) break the rules when they think they 
are not being monitored.  A case in point being the fire in the 
processing plant in the south (Carolina?) were the fire doors were 
locked.  This state had so few inspectors that it would have taken 
decades to inspect everyone and there was *NO* effective  protection
for anyone who reported a violation or for that matter any action
taken when violation were reported.

Does anyone know of any literature references relating to repetitive 
mouse use?  Any threshold values for frequencies, per minute, per hour?

Don't know if this is the appropriate venue to request this 
information... but I'd appreciate any help!  Thank you in advance...

Jill Sawchuk  (psawchuk@oise.utoronto.ca)

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960719200403.23352A-100000@tortoise>,
   Peter Harold Sawchuk <psawchuk@tortoise> wrote:
>Does anyone know of any literature references relating to repetitive 
>mouse use?  Any threshold values for frequencies, per minute, per hour?
>
>Don't know if this is the appropriate venue to request this 
>information... but I'd appreciate any help!  Thank you in advance...
>
>Jill Sawchuk  (psawchuk@oise.utoronto.ca)

A good reference for force and mouse use would be Johnson, Smurtz, Tal & 
Tempel, 1994 in the International Ergonomics Association 1994 Conference 
Publication Volume 2?.  Karlqvist et al., 1995 is another good reference, this 
was published in the Ergonomic journal.  Also look in the Marconi Keyboard 
Research conferences for some other useful references.  Hope this helps!

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Nicholas Hoh
4A Kinesiology Ergonomics Option
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