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What you need to know
Legal Requirements
The basis for the description of a VDU workstation is the EU VDU Work Directive 90/270/EEC from 1990. This is implemented in Germany through the Ordinance on Occupational Health Care and the associated examination G 37.
But even the last change to the regulation dated October 23, 2013 does not keep up with current developments. The only regulation is that the affected employee must be given an appropriate examination and, as a result, be provided with special visual aids if necessary.
However, the requirements for a modern computer workstation are constantly changing. People now often work in parallel with a second screen, an additional notebook or a tablet – not forgetting printed documents, text manuscripts, mobile phones and many other necessary work tools.
Small investment – big benefit
Employee absences are expensive. A missed working day costs over €420*. Individual workplace glasses are the perfect solutions to support employees when working at computer screens. The stress at the computer workstation is reduced significantly. Possible causes of sickness-related absences from work are reduced. A falling number of absences is therefore only the logical consequence.
Therefore, every employer should give increased importance to the issue of computer workstations due to their general duty of care. The regulation provided by the Ordinance on occupational health care is no longer sufficient or up-to-date.
Additional hard work
Over 80% of the working population in Germany spend the majority of their daily work on screens. More than 90% of 40 – 60 year olds use screen devices every day.
With more than 30,000 head and eye movements, the eyes, muscles and cervical spine do hard work every day. Constantly changing glances between the screen, keyboard and work documents constantly demands maximum performance from the eyes. There are individual solutions for these extraordinary demands.
People aged around 40 and over are particularly affected by possible consequences due to their declining ability to see clearly up close and require appropriate visual aid.
However, the declining age at which people start wearing glasses shows that more and more younger people are also suffering from vision problems. Early recognition and support can help here.
HEALTH
Screen work – dangers and effects
Health Problems & Risks on the screen & PC workstations
Symptoms of illness* as a result of intensive screen work
The Office Eye Syndrome: People who predominantly work on a PC put their eyes and body under particular strain. If no precautionary measures are taken, so-called asthenopic complaints can result.
Poor posture caused by progressive lenses
The correct sitting position at the computer workstation is extremely important. Wearers of progressive lenses in particular cannot comply with these requirements.
The head position has to be corrected often and unnaturally in order to be able to see the PC screen clearly. This automatically and unconsciously leads to incorrect posture of the head and spine.
Short-sightedness due to screen work
Increased close work on a screen can lead to undesirable eye growth. Due to this anatomical change in the eye, distant objects are only imaged out of focus.
This quickly leads to overexertion and poses a significant risk, especially when driving. Regular visual performance checks are therefore essential. Myopia can only be corrected with glasses that compensate for the resulting visual impairment.
Young people should also consider using special glasses with a low close-up lens, especially at the PC workplace. This relieves the strain on the eyes when working close up and can prevent further increases in myopia.
Premature presbyopia in young people
Young people in particular use computers, cell phones or tablets not only professionally but also in their free time. The associated constant focusing on nearby areas puts enormous strain on the eyes. There will therefore be no recovery – even after a hard day’s work in front of the screen
The eyes are exposed to daily stress without protection. The need for visual aid becomes noticeable at an early age, but experience shows that it is ignored over a long period of time.
Corneal damage caused by wearing soft contact lenses
Wearers of soft contact lenses are most often affected by so-called neovascularization. Wearing soft contact lenses reduces the oxygen supply to the cornea. This effect is further enhanced by the significantly reduced blinking of the eyes during intensive PC work. To compensate, the cornea forms uncontrolled blood vessels. The natural transparency of the cornea is restricted. This significantly hinders the natural visual process.
Technology
INFIELD Infor Office
Lens design for individual work situations
High-tech glasses for modern computer workstations
Standard glasses are well suited for everyday situations. But at the computer workstation, these “everyday glasses” are poor compromises. Reading glasses and progressive lenses are most commonly used. There are better solutions for the ever-increasing demands on modern computer workstations: Infor Office design enables glasses wearers to achieve the best performance.
Ordinary reading glasses do not provide any useful support at the PC workstation.
The normal reading distance is approx. 40 cm. The PC screen is usually approx. 80 cm away from the eye. With reading glasses you can see clearly up close, but the screen remains blurry.
The supposed “all-rounder” progressive lenses fail at the PC workstation.
The important viewing area for the distance to the screen is almost only noticeable at certain points and is therefore much too narrow. The head position has to be corrected often and unnaturally in order to be able to see the PC screen clearly.
The office glasses for optimal relief at the desk.
The visual area relevant for screen work is significantly widened and the wearer of glasses is optimally relieved.
The head and spine have to do significantly less balancing work to see clearly in the work area. This leads to a significantly more relaxed and healthy posture at the desk.
More comfort with personal work glasses with individual lens design
Glasses with INFIELD Infor Office lenses are individually adjusted to the main working distance with centimeter precision. To do this, the desired distance must be measured so that the person wearing glasses can adopt a relaxed head and body position at the workplace. The desired working distance should be between 40 cm and 1.5 m.
Because of its individual design, Infor Office lenses offer an expansion of the visual range past the working distance that has been determined, the so-called “comfort zone”. The eyeglass wearer is also able to see clearly areas apart from the working distance that has been determined* (Examples 1 & 2).
Changed working and everyday conditions for our eyes
Today, almost every modern computer workstation has an LED flat screen. There are also laptops, tablet PCs, LED TVs and smartphones that are used intensively every day. All of these technical devices are powered by LED backlights and have an unnaturally high proportion of blue light. Too much blue light exposure has a negative impact on the human biorhythm.
BlueProtect – standard for all “office eyewear glasses”
The INFIELD BlueProtect coating technology filters out the critical short-wave blue light and prevents potential dangers. Color perception is not disturbed and contrasts can be displayed more clearly. The advantage is sharper vision and improved visual comfort over a long period of time.
BlueProtect including super anti-reflective coating, hard coating & clean effect
This coating combination offers even more: wearers of glasses receive clearer and less fatigue-free vision because disturbances such as reflections and reflections are significantly reduced. The lenses are more resistant to environmental influences and signs of wear and are particularly easy to clean and care for.
Blue light affects everyone – but how do you protect your eyes from too much blue light if you don’t wear glasses at work?
It’s that simple: Plano BlueProtect – The glasses for everyone who doesn’t need glasses – All the protection against too much blue light in a pair of glasses without prescription correction. To protect against risks and consequences, such as sleep disorders and excessive stress symptoms.
Plano BlueProtect – the computer glasses WITHOUT prescription
Every model from our office glasses collection is available as a “Plano version” with BlueProtect blue filter coating – i.e. as glasses WITHOUT optical correction with a blue filter.
Blue light – the constant danger from the screen
Increasing exposure to LEDs
Scientific studies prove the dangers of blue light for the human organism. In the last 10 years, humans have experienced an increasing imbalance in their biorhythms.
The reason for this is the daily increasing use of highly effective and energy-saving LED technologies on computers, tablets, smartphones and TVs as well as the associated heavy exposure to blue light.
What this means for us as people
Suppression of melatonin production leads to disruption of the biorhythm!
Over 1/3 of the German population suffers from sleep disorders
According to studies by the Federal Statistical Office, around 80% of the working population in Germany spends a large part of their daily work in front of the computer. In addition, work is sometimes carried out under artificial light until late in the evening.
Health consequences
When working with LED screen displays, we focus on a blue light source for hours.
This proportion of blue light has an oxidative effect on the visual cells of the retina, especially the macula, and can even destroy the visual cells when exposed to intense blue light. According to experts, this can lead to irreparable damage to the entire retina in the long term and promote so-called age-related macular degeneration.
