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Work environment
Your Toshiba Pocket PC e830 has been designed to be
compact, light-weight and extremely portable, (and they
include a self-contained battery pack), so that they can be
easily carried and used almost anywhere.
Proper use of your Toshiba Pocket PC e830 does not pose any health
hazards. When used in accordance with the safety instructions that follow,
they also offer an alternative to Pocket PC users who wish to avoid expo-
sure to the additional sources of electromagnetic field (EMF) emission
that may be present in Pocket PCs.
Ideally, your Toshiba Pocket PC e830 should always be used at a well-
designed work station so that your arms, shoulders, and hands are in nat-
ural and comfortable positions. This will minimize physical discomfort to
the back, neck, wrists, and other parts of the body. During normal use,
your forearms should be parallel to the floor, your wrists should be arched
comfortably upward (i.e., so that your hands are above your forearms);
your fingers should be gently curved downward, and your upper arms
should be hanging freely at your side. This will avoid physical discomfort.
Furthermore, you should ideally always be seated in front of your Toshiba
Pocket PC e830 in a comfortable chair that provides firm support for your
back, permitting your feet to be flat on the floor, your knees to be bent at
an angle of 90 degrees or more, and your thighs to be at an angle of 90
degrees or greater in relation to your torso. Since Toshiba Pocket PCs are
specifically intended to be used in the field, it is foreseeable that they will
not always be used at carefully designed and well illuminated work sta-
tions. Instead, they may often be used where lighting conditions are poor,
where viewing distances and angles are inconvenient, where they will be
subject to vibration or vehicle motion, where available seating conditions
may require awkward arm and wrist positions, and where adequate neck
and back support cannot be provided.
Furthermore, since the LCD is not detachable from the keyboard, condi-
tions of use in the field may sometimes cause the LCD to be too low for
comfort (or the keyboard to be too high for comfort). As a result, opportu-
nities may often exist for the misuse of your Toshiba Pocket PC e830
under adverse conditions, which could result in eyestrain and in physical
discomfort to various parts of the body.
The following safety instructions should always be followed to avoid the
adverse consequences that could otherwise result from the misuse of
your Toshiba Pocket PC e830 under sub optimum field conditions.
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