It is a definitive resource for office workers and employers who are responsible for health and safety or ergonomics programs in the workplace, facility designers, purchasers, health and safety regulatory agencies and manufacturers, designers associated with office ergonomics and much more. The new Guideline will help you achieve the following objectives:

• optimize the design of an office system for its users.
• identify the unique characteristics and concerns of office workers and seek their participation in office design.
• review office designs with methods such as mock-ups and user trials.
• develop education and training programs.
• use appraisals for assessing each component of the office system.
  

• Step 1: Identify office design outcomes
• Step 2: Consider the office as a system and seek organizational involvement
• Step 3: Identify workers' characteristics and seek their participation
• Step 4: Understand job demands, job design, and work organization
• Step 5: Plan or consider the office layout and design of workrooms
• Step 6: Plan or consider the office environment
• Step 7: Design individual workstations
• Step 8: Review the design
• Step 9: Provide education and training

Interactive CD-ROM

This guideline is available in an interactive Smart Standard CD-ROM format. It offers many features so you can locate and identify information the way you want.

• instant access to important information.
• interactive index to quickly hyperlink to specific information.
• most complex figures and illustrations enhanced with interactive features and/or animations for increased understanding of specific concepts within the Guideline.
• ability to enlarge graphics and figures.
• PDF version of Office Ergonomics for full-text viewing and printing of the entire document or selected pages.
• interactive appraisals and forms that can be completed, saved and printed.
• inclusion of both metric and imperial units.