The statistical significance of the neck and lower arm body part scores reflects the high loading of these body parts while performing a VDU-based task. Functionally, the neck-shoulder region experiences static muscle fatigue contributed to by the load of the arms and their position” . The lower arm region includes the muscles and associated soft tissue structures responsible for the posture and action of the wrist, hand and fingers. The task required constant keying so that the structures in the neck and shoulder region were performing a static posture function while the structures of the forearm performed high repetition rate and low force finger movements with no recovery period over the 40 min trial. With these experienced data-entry subjects the loading of these structures was sufficient to cause reporting of discomfort or pain of a significant level. Further studies of other tasks commencing with cash till operators are planned to evaluate the different associations of individual body part discomfort with the musculoskeletal loading from the working postures adopted.