If you use display screen equipment for at least an hour or more every day – or a significant proportion of your work – then this would class you as DSE user.

The DSE Regulations apply to you regardless of whether you’re at a fixed workstation, a mobile worker, work from home, or if you’re a hot-desker.

There are some situations where the regulations don’t apply, these are:

• Driver’s/control cabs for vehicles or machinery
• Screens on board any form of transport
• Display screens that are intended for public use, e.g. electronic information display in a shopping centre
• Portable devices that are not used for prolonged periods of time
• Calculators, cash registers, or any other equipment with a small data or measurement screen, or
• Typewriters of traditional design – “window typewriters”