Awareness of Workstation Ergonomics and Occurrence of Computer-Related Injuries

The computer-related injuries (CRIs) is reported having a high incidence among office workers who works daily with a computer and do not practice good working habits or not aware of workstation ergonomics. The study's aim is to assess awareness of workstation ergonomics and occurrence of CRIs among office workers at a private university in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is a survey of 120 office workers selected with a simple random sampling method. The data were obtained using a validated self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 23. All participants are office workers who work with computer >5 hours daily (100%). More than half participants are women (50.8%), aged 20-30 years old (56.7%), with a bachelor's degree (73.3%), duration of occupation 1-5 years (68.3%), and never attended any ergonomics training (87.5%). Most of the participants had adequate awareness regarding workstation ergonomics (65%), however many of them still experienced CRIs e.g. eye strain (78.3%), blurred vision (41.7%), watery eyes (39.2%), headache (37.5%), tingling and numbness sensation of feet and hand (29.2% and 19.2% respectively). Assessment of body pain using Nordic Body Map showed that most of the participants experienced pain on the upper neck (44.2%), shoulder (40.8%), waist (40%) and lower neck (39.2%). Practice a good working habit is crucial and ergonomics training is highly recommended to all office workers in the university in order to reduce the occurrence of CRIs in the future.