In most cases, workers were given the best tools known at the time. Very few were knowingly negligent. The problem needs a political solution. Workers need to be healed, and corporate productivity needs to be restored. A government funded answer is needed to end lost productivity, unnecessary health care expenditure, pain, anguish, disability relief, job retraining, and worker replacement costs.
Economic productivity is the foundation supporting American world leadership.
Instead of being honored for their contribution and helped, injured and productively impaired workers are held hostage in the partisan political conflict over ergonomic regulations. RSI victims have become jetsam of the prosperity their work helped create. For their sake and for the benefit of employers, taxpayers, and everyone who suffers from the lost productivity and the high health costs, a better policy is demanded. The DataHand ergonomic keyboard offers a model of the kind of innovation and ingenuity needed to inspire answers to all aspects of the musculoskeletal injury issue, both physical and political. Cooperative creativity can fix many difficulties and conflicts.