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The Public Employees Occupational
Safety and Health (PEOSH) Program of New Jersey has developed specifications for computer
workstation equipment in their Video Display Terminal (VDT) Guidelines. The purpose of the
specifications is to provide computer users with comfortable furniture to minimize work
related musculoskeletal disorders. The PEOSH specifications were adapted from the American
National Standard for Human Factor Engineering of Visual Display Terminal Workstations
(ANSI/HFS 100-1988). The ANSI
standard was developed using measurements on people from North American population,
including people ranging from in size the 5th percentile female to 95th
percentile male in that population. As a result, these measurements are largely but not
perfectly applicable to north Americans. When computer users include people larger or
smaller than the range of the reference population, employers should consider purchasing
equipment with a larger ranges of adjustability than specified, or purchasing more than
one size of chairs and tables. These specifications can be use as a guideline for
purchasing new furniture in the future and retrofitting or replacing existing furniture.
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