VDT
American-
video display terminal.
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Chiefly British. visual display terminal.
abbreviation
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Concurs J. Donald Millar, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: "The VDT revolution has produced impressively few problems" for worker safety.
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But as the work force migrates from the shop floor to the corporate cubicle, millions of people face what some think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT.
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Companies that have provided workers with VDT basics like more comfortable chairs and detachable keyboards and have introduced voluntary safety standards resent government intrusion.
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The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age.
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More and more companies are mandating regular breaks for VDT workers and paying for periodic eye examinations.
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