Recently the Danish National Board of Industrial Injuries has funded two literature reviews on the evidence of a causal association between computer work and carpal tunnel syndrome and musculoskeletal diseases in the neck, shoulder, arm and hand. The organisational framework to assure a high scientific standard of these and other coming reviews was established by the Scientific Committee of DASAM (Dansk Selskab for Arbejds- og Miljømedicin).

The background and organisation of the work will be presented, and the literature reviews will be presented by the authors and discussed in relation to aspects of workers compensation and prevention. Representatives of the National Board of Industrial Injuries and the labour market parties will take part in the discussions. The seminar will also discuss the impact of computer related musculoskeletal pain and disorders in terms of functional impairment and sick leave.
Another aspect is the prevention of musculoskeletal pain among computer workers. Professor David Rempel, University of California, will present a review of workplace interventions to prevent pain and disorders among computer users.

You must register your participation in advance:
Registration dead line: September 21, to
dopr@glostruphosp.kbhamt.dk.
Max. 140 registrations

Seminar fee:
Members of SOUND or DASAM: 100 DKK.
Non-members: 500 DKK Payment to Bank account:
IBANNR. DK76 3000 4442 9700 33 or
Bank reg.nr  3100  kontonr. 4442 9700 33.
Note: “24,23, Sound-Dasam-AMI” and your name

The seminar is organized by:
Department of Occupational Medicine in Glostrup
Danish National Institute of Occupational Health (AMI)
National Institute of Working Life (NIWL), Sweden
Institute of Exercise and Sports Medicine, University of Copenhagen

Presentations will after the seminar be found on the new SOUND website: www.sound-osh.net 

Agenda

0915-0945

Coffee, registration

0945-1000

Wellcome and introduction (Sigurd Mikkelsen, Department of Occupational Medicine in Glostrup)

1000-1020

Reference documents on work related diseases: the role of the Scientific Committee of DASAM. (Sigurd Mikkelsen, The Scientific Committee, DASAM).

1020-1030

Carpal tunnel syndrome and the use of computer mouse and keyboard. A Review. (Jane Frølund Thomsen, Department of Occupational Medicine, Glostrup).
1030-1100

A critical review of evidence for a causal relationship between computer work and musculoskeletal disorders with physical findings of the neck and upper extremity (Bo Veiersted, Therese Nordberg, Morten Wærsted, National Institute of ccupational  Health, Norway).
 
1100-1200

Panel discussion on reference documents, general aspects and specific comments to the documents on computer work  (repr. from Danish Employers’ Confederation (Sven-Peter Nygaard), Danish Federation of Trade Unions (Anne Marie Bryde), 
National Board of Industrial Injuries (Bent Mathiesen), The Scientific Committee, DASAM (Staffan Skerfving), and Jane Frølund Thomsen and Bo Veiersted.  The discussion language will be in Danish/Swedish/Norwegian.

1200-1300

Lunch

1300-1315

Musculoskeletal disorders and physical exposure among computer using air traffic controllers (Inger Arvidsson, Dep.of Occupational and Environ. Health, Lund).

1315-1330

Computer work and long-term sick leave (Johan Hviid Andersen, Department of Occupational Medicine, Herning).

1330-1345

Functional capacity and musculoskeletal health among computer  workers. Data from workplace studies conducted by the Danish National Institute of Occupational Health (Gisela Sjøgård, Danish National Institute of Occupational Health).

1345-1445

Workplace interventions to prevent pain and disorders among computer users (David Rempel, Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California at Berkeley, Director of the Ergonomics Graduate Training program at UC Berkeley, USA). 

1445-1515

Coffee break

1515-1600

General discussion. Theme: What can we prevent? What should we compensate?
Panel: Inger Arvidsson, Johan Hviid Andersen, Gisela Sjøgård, David Rempel.

 

The SOUND steering committee will meet during lunch and 1600-1700.