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- Title
VDTs As Potential Health Hazards: A Critical Analysis.
- Authors
Sneed, Don
- Abstract
The article critically analyzes efforts toward regulating visual display terminal (VDT) usage. VDT user concerns fall into two categories: ergonomics, or workstation design, and radiation emission. Radiation safety experts hold widely divergent opinions about VDT safety. Some experts contend that VDTs are safe because their radiation emissions fall far below federal and international standards of radiation exposure. While researchers agree that radiation emissions of high frequency ionizing radiation undisputedly damage humans when given at high levels, research is inconclusive on whether the non-ionizing or very low frequency radiation emitted by VDTs is harmful. While proponents and opponents of VDT legislation argue, perhaps the most indicting statement with regard to potential health hazards from VDT radiation emissions is contained in a law review article which catalogues scientific evidence is inconclusive, and then proposes that legislators and policymakers at the federal level should recognize the constraints of the scientific knowledge of potential VDT health hazards and strive to establish health safeguards through legislative action.
- Subjects
VIDEO display terminals; VLF emissions; RADIATION; IONIZING radiation; LEGISLATION; INFORMATION display systems
- Publication
Newspaper Research Journal, 1985, Vol 6, Issue 4, p66
- ISSN
0739-5329
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1177/073953298500600408