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Workstations and Task Chairs Guideline

The purpose of this document is to outline for employees the Safety and Wellbeing principles supporting the
design of workstations and selection of task chairs for departmental offices and their use.
The document covers open plan and enclosed spaces where workstations are allocated to individual
employees. They also apply to ‘hot desk’ situations where different employees may use the same
workstation.
Workstations

1. Standard workstation height is 720mm high and workstation tops should be adjustable within a
range of 610mm to 740mm above floor level.

2. A hand crank adjustment mechanism shall generally be used for the workstations enabling
employees to adjust their own workstation height.
3. Fixed height benches should be set at 720mm, for seated, or 1000mm, for standing, team
collaboration activities.
4. Generally, workstation area shall be a minimum 2100W x 800Dmm for individual work points with
dual monitors or a monitor and laptop stand. The desk depth is based on the requirements of
AS/NZS4443 – 1997.
5. Workstation area for short stay (‘hot desks’) shall be a minimum of 1200W x 800Dmm with provision
for a single monitor.

6. Innovative workstation shapes such as 120 degree and quadrant desks need to provide a minimum
of 800mm wide and 800mm deep work space for computer hardware.
7. Unobstructed leg space is provided under each workstation to be 600mm depth and 800mm width.

8. The computer monitor screen shall be supported on a monitor arm or similar that allows at least
250mm adjustment so the centre of the screen can be adjusted to suit the visual needs of the tallest
staff. The monitor arm or similar should also provide forward, back and tilt adjustments.
9. The mounting of the monitor on the workstation should enable the face of the LCD monitor to be at
least 600mm from the working edge of the desk surface.
10. Mounting of monitors on the workstations should have the capacity to have two LCD monitors side
by side if required. The configuration of the monitor arm should enable one monitor to be positioned
in the centre of the workstation as the primary work point with the other monitor or laptop to one
side as the secondary device if required. Alternatively, the configuration should also allow both
monitors to abut through the centre line of the workstation if they are both used as primary visual
input devices.
11. The selection of the monitor arms should enable the user to grip the front of the monitor and raise
or lower it into their preferred viewing position. They should not have to reach to the supporting
post to adjust the height of the monitor arm due to the excessive reach and difficult access.
12. Maximum reach across the workstation to plug in power and data is 700mm. This is achieved by
power boxes or similar mounted at the rear of the work surface.