Unions to publicise problems of R.S.I.
PA Auckland Union delegates in Auckland have decided their employers should be taught more about repetitive strain injury. The delegates, representing clerical workers and members of the P.S.A., decided at a meeting to distribute videos about R.S.I. to unions to show workers. A trade union health and safety centre co-ordinator, Ms Adrienne Taylor, said the union delegates also discussed setting up support groups for workers suffer-
ing from R. 5.1., particularly from using word processors and visual display units. Union representatives would see members of the, medical profession and the Health Department to talk about R.S.I. problems, she said. The meeting discussed the difficulties of getting accident compensation and agreed to seek talks with the Accident Compensation Corporation “to get recognition that these sorts of overuse injuries are part of working in certain sorts of jobs.”
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