T 2.14 Impairment of IT usage on account of adverse working conditions

A workplace not organised according to ergonomic requirements or the operational environment (e.g. dust or noise nuisances) may be the reason why no use, or no optimum use, can be made of the available IT facilities.

For the major part, the conceivable faults do not have a direct impact on IT facilities. Rather, staff members will be affected in such a way that they cannot perform their tasks with due concentration. Such affects can be due to extensive noise, unorganised customer visits, inappropriate room lighting or bad air conditioning First signs of these disturbances are a decrease in efficiency and an increase in small errors (incorrect spelling, etc.) This will not only affect the direct results of work, i t will also introduce errors into stored data and reduce the data integrity.