Photocopier Exposure Symptoms
<pglanmill@bigpond.com>My work-station is in a cubicle in a corner of a Medical Records library in a newly built wing of a hospital (RPAH) so there are paints, glues being used as installation of interiors continues.

I have both a photocopier and printer on either side of my cubicle partitions in optimal use. Symptoms begin as 'pinging' on the skin and coughing.

During the day, these will turn to numbness of mouth (with bad taste/odor, resembling the smell of gas), fatigue, nausea and strange feeling of disorientation (possibly vertigo).

The numbness will now have reached my lower extremities and vision will be 'blurry' and eyes very sore and completely 'bloodshot'. Because of allergic reactions both to the dusty/musty files etc and in my general life, this all exacerbates pre-existing bronchial asthma, dermititis and sinusitis.

My employers deny any correlation to my work situation and that is why I am doing this search on your web pages. (The Deputy Manager refused to believe,

The Manager moved me to another work area then back again (It should be alright now) and my office supervisor laughed and ridiculed me in front of staff several times.

They are going to move me (because it must be something unique to me not my work situation) which means that the problem has really not been addressed.

Anxiety and stress compound the situation and I have had BP readings significantly higher than my usual after 'confrontations' with unsympathetic bosses who should have been taught their responsibilities in their management training programs. (I used to work in Libraries (real ones) and my university and in-service training programmes addressed all these issues in the workplace and lots more.

SYDNEY, NSW AUSTRALIA - Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 04:08:39 (CDT)

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