The State - News from Aug. 22, 1986

The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted 4 to 3 to appoint a panel to draft what might be the nation’s first real worker-protection standards for use of computer terminals in offices and other workplaces. Barbara Kellog, a spokeswoman for the VDT Coalition, an association of unions that had backed the measure, called it a “first step in getting some kind of health and safety standards to protect VDT workers.” But Steve Jablonsky, executive officer of the Cal-OSHA standards board, said state-enforced work rules for computer terminals are still far in the future. “The regulatory process,” he said, “is very deliberative.”