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Testing for OOS

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Testing for OOS

Many New Zealand workers now use computers rather than shovels or axes, but workplace safety is still a serious issue. Occupational health and safety nurse Brenda Moana is testing Wellington journalist Graeme Peters for repetitive strain injury, also known as occupational over-use syndrome or OOS.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3706/8

by Ray Pigney

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Hazel Armstrong, Workplace safety and accident compensation – Workplace health and safety, 1990s and 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23255/testing-for-oos (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Hazel Armstrong, published 2 March 2010.