Question: Have you ever injured yourself during work, if yes what was it like?

Andrew Hearn answered on 20 Mar 2012:

No – we have a pretty good health and safety policy in place here.

But we have to be very careful, and avoid getting Repetitive Strain/Stress Injury (RSI), as long periods at the keyboard while being tense (trying to deal with deadlines for example) can cause pain in lower arms and wrists that take a very long time to recover – so for each hour on the computer, we have to have a 5-min break away, doing non-computer work. I usually take 10mins breaks every 2 hours. Sometimes I’m so into what I’m doing that I lose track of the time, and then I take longer breaks!

Once when I was very tired (possibly during when my first son was a little baby, waking up a lot during the nights), I felt a quick and sharp pain in one of my eyes after staring at my screen for a long time, but that was it, nothing unusual when I looked at it in the mirror (yeah other people gave me funny looks!), that was weird!