In 2020, 480,000 workers in Great Britain reported suffering from musculoskeletal disorders (HSE).

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 25m

Learning outcomes

  • Learn how to set up your workstation correctly and stop bad office ergonomic habits
  • Learn how to use portable devices (included in DSE) correctly
  • Prevent 'DSE Stress' and become more productive at work as a result of good DSE

Covered in this course

Course contents

This DSE training course is broken down into 4 sections

  1. 1
    Physical
  2. 2
    Visual
  3. 3
    Stress
  4. 4
    Portables

About this course

Anyone who regularly uses a computer legally requires DSE Training, this is also commonly referred to as ‘Computer Health and Safety Training’ or ‘VDU (Visual Display Unit) Training’. DSE also refers to laptops, tablets, TV screens, and even smartphones.

It’s no wonder this type of training is a legal requirement when you consider the HSE reported that in 2017/18, 469,000 workers suffered from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Taking just 30 minutes to complete, our DSE training course will show you how to carry out a DSE risk assessment (DSE Risk Assessment also included), as well as how to better arrange your existing workplace equipment to minimise common negative symptoms associated with extended periods of time spent at a computer (such as eye strain, backache, etc.)

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 Display Screen Equipment training. This course has been designed to increase safety and awareness and to aid compliance with workplace regulations. This DSE 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.

Includes online DSE Assessment Tool

Our DSE Assessment Tool simplifies DSE compliance and provides a complete online management tool for swift and simple issue resolution. With our training and assessment tool, working towards Display Screen Equipment compliance is simple!

The importance of DSE Training (Display Screen Equipment)

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

DSE Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This DSE Training (Display Screen Equipment) course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your DSE Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

20,796 real user reviews

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Well presented & to the point presenatation.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Informative

Really good and interesting content

Brilliant

A great course to ensure your workstation is set up correctly from the get go. I learnt a lot, thank you.

Nicely spaced so that you can fit the training around a busy working day.

This was better than some older training that I have taken before, which covered the majority of the same topics, but this course provided some sensible suggestions and additional details if you wished to review them.

Very easy to follow

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Really good

I liked the 'in person' instructor, it made it more engaging that just listening or reading the infromation.

Very informative course

This was a good, lengthy course that covered all aspects of DSE. Very easy to follow with good videos and I learnt some new things about DSE.

Informative at a suitable level, re-enforces previous training.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

Display Screen Equipment Regulations:

The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations of 1992 regulations (particularly parts 2, 4, 6 and 7) stipulate a legal workplace requirement 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 perform health and safety risk assessments of workstations.

The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations of 1992, Sections 2,4 and 6

In terms of the frequency and nature of this training, employers are required to provide this 1) “When employment is started,” to be 2) “repeated on a regular basis, as well as where risks may be increased due to changes of responsibilities or changes in working practices; adapted to take account of new risks to health and safety;” and must “take place during working hours.”

Penalties for not following The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations of 1992

Failure to provide Display Screen Equipment training to employees is a breach of DSE regulations. This can lead to employers facing prosecution, jail time and fines. Providing a DSE training course will help protect your business from any liability claims.

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