Computers and their working may fill your stomach and feed your gray cells : but they may also lick your mind and bite your body. How you operate, how you sit, whether the light is adequate, the kind of sound that surrounds you, the unfelt radiation- all seemingly little things, may have a disastrous effect on your body. They affect your muscular skeleton system, your eyes, your ears, your nervous system. Your very mental being and the stress that goes along with it.

The IT Industry, especially, mandates that the science of Ergonomics be brought to the workplace requiring employers to better fit jobs within the physical limitations. For example, as more and more work, education and recreation involves computers. Everyone needs to be aware of the hazards of repetitive strain injuries to the hand and arms resulting from the use of the keyboards and mouse. This can be a serious and very painful condition that is far easier to prevent, than to cure, once contracted, and can occur even in young physically fit individuals. It is not uncommon for people to have to leave computers ( and dependent careers as a result ) or even to be permanently disabled and unable to perform simple tasks such as dressing themselves or driving. So with the eyes, so with radiation, so with…

Health in corporate settings, health in the working environment, healthy computing and safety practices of all kinds- all lead to the overall positive social context of occupational health.