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This training course is broken down into 4 sections
- 1 Physical
- 2 Visual
- 3 Stress
- 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 included for free), 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.
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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 DSE compliance is simple!
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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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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 Training (Display Screen Equipment) 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.

9,678 real user reviews
useful and informative
useful and informative as i suffer with lower back pain.
Informative
Simple to use and told me all I needed to know.
deluded
I am sorry but I cannot take this one serious. I can understand the posture aspect, laying out your desk and adjusting your seats but the communal stretching and table tennis breaks don't fit in to my every day working experience.
good and educative
it has been a very good course allowing me to learn or refresh my mind on important issues I have been neglecting while working with DSE. would like to be taking such courses frequently to better enhance work place safety.
Informative around the subject matter
Was a good refresher/reminder about using DSE safely.
Very educational
A useful training course on DSE; helps us understand the importance of H&S whilst working at the laptop.
Adequate
I received a reminder on 12th April that the Assessment had to be completed even though I did complete it on the day of the course on 06th April?.
was very simple to follow
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.
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.
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.”
- Is this course approved?
- Yes, this course is IOSH approved and CPD Accredited for your total reassurance.
- How long does this course take to complete?
- This course takes just 25 minutes to complete and can be completed on any device.
- Is this training mandatory?
- DSE training is a legal requirement for anyone who uses display screen equipment regularly. If you use display screen equipment for more than an hour a day, you are a ‘DSE user’ and the regulations will apply to you.
- Why is this training important?
- Over 40% of health-related work cases are musculoskeletal disorders. This DSE training teaches users how to correctly set up their workstations and stop bad habits. It also looks at ‘DSE stress’ and how we can become more productive at work as a result of good DSE.
- Do you offer a free trial?
- Yes, as with any iHASCO course, you can try it for free at any time without obligation.
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