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Posted By Noel Molloy
Employees following customer visits are inputting data into their laptops using their company car as their workplace/office. From ergonomic and safety viewpoints can anyone share their experience / suggest useful avenues of information with reference to the safe use of laptops in cars?
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Posted By David Bannister
Depends on the length of time the laptop is in use and the quantity of data needed to be input. If this is simple post-meeting notes or orderform filling of a few lines then I suggest that the risk to the operators health is minimal.
If however, they are completing lengthy documents then the local burger bar (with healthy options) may be a better location.
Fast lane of the M6 is probably not the place to be doing this, even if travelling at 5mph past Walsall!
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Posted By David Bannister
Forgot to add a bit about securing the laptop and all paperwork out of sight.
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Posted By johnwaterson2773
At least it is not using electric razor, overtaking a police patrol car - excuse was I am late to give a first aid lesson. Just read it in the Telegraph. Some H & S officer that.
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Posted By Pete48
Agree with David, seems low risk but you could just check how they are actually doing it. See if there are any obvious improvements possible in posture and then share that lesson with others. For example, is it better to sit in the passenger seat and have the laptop on your lap rather than the laptop on the passenger seat whilst sitting twisted in the driver seat? back seat better than front seat?
Seems to me it wouldn't take long to do and avoids missing the chance to keep risk to minimum or even better to spot that glitch that we cannot see from the wide world of web forum.
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Posted By Adam Hammerton
Make sure you've thought about what would happen if working in the drivers seat and the air bag went off (e.g. if someone drove into them). A face full of TFT screen may not be too good for their chances of a modelling career.
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Posted By lewes
I know Transco had a problem with this a few years ago and the main problem was sitting in the drivers seat and having the laptop on the passengers seat and the twisting of the spine.
I think they ended up having to use some sort of dash mounted bracket to support the laptop. The other option would be to sit in the passenger seat and use from their. Either way its not really ideal.
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Posted By Andy Brazier
Depending on what needs to be recorded, a PDA may provide a better solution. Reduced requirement for space, and can be synchronised with the PC at a later time.
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