Unfortunately, in addition to the standards applicable to the employer in terms of providing adequate lighting, taking into account the different nature of work, there are also feelings of individual people performing tasks in these rooms. You can often meet with a request from employees to reduce the intensity of lighting, for example by unscrewing one fluorescent lamp. For some workers, the color of the light is crucial. Inthe number of comments of employees addressed to the OHS service concerns lighting.

It is worth following these tips as far as technically possible and, of course, instead of unscrewing the bulbs / fluorescent lamps, install additional switches so that employees can manage the lighting above their workstations. For those who prefer to work with spot lighting, provide desk lamps, despite the fact that the intensity of lighting in the room meets the standard. When designing lighting or rebuilding, modern technologies should be used, taking into account one of the most important parameters of office lighting – the color rendering index Ra, which determines the quality of white light (realistic perception of the natural color of objects illuminated using a specific light source). The regulations also require the organization of office work in rooms where there is access to natural light, and this is a very important issue. It happens that employees compete with each other who will take a position at the window. This is important both because of our psyche and eye hygiene.

Some vision defects can be aggravated in situations when we work in underexposed positions. Sometimes the doctor of the doctor working on the medical certificate, in addition to the already traditional glasses for working on the screen monitor, adds other recommendations related to the defect or disease of vision and regarding the requirements for adapting the workplace. For example, an employee suffering from glaucoma received an indication that she should work at the window due to the fact that the eye disease will worsen if the intraocular pressure increases. The pressure increases in the situation of dilation of the pupils, i.e. when the room is poorly lit.

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