Ensuring all your staff working with Display Screen Equipment are working safely and plan rectifications to ensure you comply with all the appropriate legislation and guidelines
- Fully qualified ergonomists consultants
- Highly experienced across Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessment
- Registered by all appropriate bodies.
- Work to your exact needs with minimal disruption
- Highest quality of customer service
- All reports stored securely online for easy viewing
Why ask Office Test to carry out Display Screen Assessment (DSE) for you?
Office Test specialises in helping businesses in all business sector, to ensure your staff are working in a safe environment in line with the requirements of all appropriate legislation and guidelines relating to Display Screen Equipment (DSE) and Visual Display Units (VDU’s).
Our ergonomists and DSE assessors are all fully qualified and hold current certification in the fields in which they work.
We monitor current and incoming legislation that could affect any aspect of your staff’s welfare or the impact of the work environment on your employees or visitors, carrying out DSE Assessment’s to identify area’s requiring attention.
What the regulations say
The Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment-DSE) Regulations came into force on 1st January 1993 (some minor changes were made in 2002). They seek to protect the health of workers by reducing risks from DSE/VDU work.
The regulations require employers to:
- Analyse workstations to assess and reduce risks
- Ensure workstations meet specified minimum requirements
- Plan work activities so that they include breaks or changes of activity
- Provide eye & eyesight tests on request, and special spectacles if needed
- Provide information & training
For example, you need to consider a DSE assessment for home workers using laptops and IT equipment in their home offices as a part of their duties.
These regulations should not impose any extra burden on your business. They simply re-impose a duty that:
- you complying with Health & Safety at Work (1974)
- is implicit in your wider health and safety duties to your employees
You are reminded that you have – and will continue to have – a general duty to:
- Carry out a DSE Assessment’s to identify the wellbeing of your all your staff.
- Regularly review DSE Assessment’s and make any necessary changes or provide training
- Pay particular attention to women of child bearing age and staff with disabilities when carrying out or reviewing a DSE Assessment’s
