Fact · Accessibility and health
CCOHS advises that your hands should move freely and be lifted above the wrist or palm rest while you type.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Your hands should move freely and be elevated above the wrist/palm rest while typing.”
Office Ergonomics - Wrist Rests, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), n.d., Wrist rests: how to use them.
Open the original- What it measures
- The same CCOHS guide gives this as the way to use a wrist rest during typing. The rest is for pauses between bursts of typing.
- What it does not show
- The guidance describes intended use. The guide does not report a trial comparing typists who lift their hands with those who rest them.