IT Health and Safety
Your Legal Requirements
Your responsibilities
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (2,4,6,7) require that...
- All employees are provided with adequate health and safety training in the use of any workstation upon which they may be required to work.
- Employees are provided with adequate information regarding all aspects of health and safety relating to their workstations.
- Employers should ensure that work on display screen equipment is interrupted by periodic breaks or changes of activity.
- Employers should perform health and safety risk assessments of workstations.
The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (13(2)) require that every employer must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate health and safety training.
- When employment is started.
- Be repeated where risks may be increased due to changes of responsibilities or changes in working practices.
- And that training should; Be repeated on a regular basis, Be adapted to take account of new risks to health and safety, Take place during working hours.
Regardless of the size of your company
Whatever the type or size of your company all your employees who sit at a computer for any part of their working day should have DSE - Display Screen Equipment training.
This programme has been designed to increase safety and awareness and to aid compliance with workplace regulations.
This training programme ensures that your employees understand how best to take care of their health by ensuring that their immediate working environment is the best it can be.
This includes –
- Setting up desk and chair
- Computer screen, keyboard and mouse
- Understanding best posture
- Awareness of their environment, such as lighting, noise and anything that can affect comfort, well-being and efficiency at work.
All employees who sit at a computer for any part of their working day must have DSE - Display Screen Equipment training.
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