my company is trying to make my screen further away and I cant see the text.
2006-09-20 22:58:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Assuming you are in the UK.
I have checked the HSE site and also various other VDU regulation sites and i can find nothing that specifes a distance between the users eyes and the screen. Different height and body sizes will produce a different best position for different people. The main reference i could find refers to "appropriate distance for the user".
If you are forced to have a VDU screen that you believe is too far away for you too see then either decrease the screen resolution (for windows - right click desktop, properties, settings, screen resolution slider) to make objects and text appear bigger, get your eyes tested - if vdu work is the main part of what you do in your job your employer should pay for an eye test or speak to your HaS officer explaining that you cannot see it properley.
HaS officers are obliged to to make your workplace and work area as comfortable as possible within regulation. If you are forced to squint or stare to read the screen they should conduct a safety audit of your desk, sitting position, typing position, in fact everything that effects your ability to work to determine how to make things better for you.
The link below details extensive documents on "VDU distance" from the HSE.
* To the users above who complain that its not a CPU screen, if you have that much time on your hands that you can post foolish comments on an honest mistake perhaps you should use that time to answer questions with factual information instead of whining that someone got an abbreviation wrong. If fact it could be called a CPU screen as it displays the information that the CPU has processed, or even a GPU screen referring to information processed to the screen from the VGA card.
VDU, the proper term is vastly out of date and is a generic term applied to all screens, including dumb terminals (VAX, WYSE for example), ATM machine screens and EPOS till screens. Whilst CPU screen may not be quite correct it explains what the user is talking about in an understandable way.
** Apologies to the Yahoo Admins for the google link to HSE information but the HSE uses a google link to search its site and as such there is no choice but to use it for internal searches on their site.
2006-09-20 23:30:35 · answer #1 · answered by The Pirate Captain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there's any legislation as such.
The size of the display on a screen depends on the physical size of the screen and the resolution the display is set at.
For instance, 10point text characters displayed on a 14" screen set at low resolution will seem bigger than the same characters displayed on a 17" screen at a higher resolution.
Discuss it with your employer, say that you have difficulties in reading the screen at the setting that they have from that distance. They may be able to change the settings for you so that the image on display becomes bigger.
2006-09-20 23:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by k² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt there is any law about it.
Also don't call it a CPU screen - because there is no such thing. CPU is the Central Processing Unit, and doesn't have a screen of it's own.
If you mean monitor, then say monitor - there are no prizes for pretending to sound technical.
Rawlyn.
2006-09-20 23:21:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cpu screen?
i advise you to make clear the basic stuff to ask,thus we are not confused, and also your spelling is not very good, thus i feel hard to help you, i am sorry
2006-09-20 23:05:24 · answer #4 · answered by david w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
would be nice if you could spell mate.
2006-09-20 23:00:13 · answer #5 · answered by adam r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋