“They (smart people) are no more or less likely to suffer the debilitating effects of carrying on regardless of the work/life balance, suffering presenteeism, effectively self-harming, and, at risk of self-medicating their way through the 21st Century with an addiction to display screen devices. Too often they spend longer on-screen…

If you take anything away from this quick reference guide — let it be these words: “So far as reasonably practicable.” Have them etched in your mind because this is what is being asked of you. DSE regulations have a “ reasonably practicable “ regulatory solution for most visual repetitive…

Constant eyestrain is simply eye-muscle fatigue. It’s an everyday occupational health “visual repetitive stress injury” in Display Screen Equipment operators. It’s due to “over-exposure to the near or close-up” and having to sustain “convergence and accommodation” (focus and refocus), for prolonged periods. Once the muscles become tired, they can no longer maintain 3D binocular vision. This…

Until last year Jason, we will call him, because that’s his name, could spend up to 16 hours a day coding on-screen, for days on end, because that’s his job, and that’s as long as he could because by then, he couldn’t see straight anyway. He was also aware the last four hours were always a bit sketchy with increased errors that had to be corrected, but that’s the way it was. But one auspicious day, he received an invitation to Score My Screen and used the Display Screen Optimiser (D.S.O.) …

We know the data: 58% of Display Screen Equipment operators, according to HSE Better Display Screen RR 561 2007, suffer debilitating, repetitive stress injuries from eye strain and binocular vision stress. The symptoms are blurred or worse double vision, migraine, myopic and asthenopic disease, work-related upper limb disorders or WRULD’s, Back Pain and other…

Just how many of us and, I wager far too many, immediately recognise the notion of sharing “3 am thoughts”? Not just since the arrival of COVID although, welcome to the newbies, joining those mourning the loss of 9 to 5 working with an official tea break mid-morning and afternoon…

Blue light. We’ve been told it’s terrible for us, that our phone emits it, it’s damaging our eyes and disrupting our circadian rhythms. We should protect ourselves from it at all costs. Blue light blogs and special blue light filters, screen programs or glasses all espouse the benefits of shielding…

You can call it what you like; you can diagnose it as whatever you want — but it’s a vast, unacknowledged problem that’s only getting worse. Call it blurred or double vision — or call it by its medical name, AMBLYOPIA in children, and PRESBYOPIA in adults. But it refers…

We’re all suffering from a contagious threat to our wellbeing, alongside the pandemic and the 24/7 news cycle. One that is perhaps insidious but in plain sight. One that’s crept more and more into our lives. The signs and symptoms are all there to see — work-stress fatigue, presenteeism, working…