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Display screen risk assessment

Display screen risk assessment

Why you should be completing DSE Assessments in the workplace

If you spend more than one hour and 5 minutes at any one time at a computer screen, then you are required to complete a display screen risk assessment once a year.

It is important that you follow these rules,

One. Its legislated and you are breaking rules if you don’t. (DSE regulations 1992)HSE

Two. Why would you not?

Let’s think about this for a minute! If you were at home and you wanted to watch some television and these things happened:

  • You only had a small place to sit
  • You couldn’t put your legs in a comfy position
  • The screen had glare from the window and you didn’t have any blinds up at the window
  • You couldn’t move because there wasn’t anywhere else to sit
  • And because of all that, your now have a headache and your back and legs were aching

We’d get up and leave the room wouldn’t we? I know I would!

What is important is that we can move positions, that we can move our legs, that we can rest our feet as high or as low as WE want to. Can we move our seat in or out from the screen to suit OUR eyes, can we see the screen clearly without glare, can we raise or lower the screen so our necks don’t ache?

Completing a display screen risk assessment helps look after you back, neck and eyes.

DSE. IT JUST MAKES SENSE! Especially when you consider the following;

A full time person may spend 8 hours at a screen each day, even if we put the TV on at 6pm and go to bed at 11pm that is only 5 hours!

Look after your back, your eyes, your shoulders, your neck, your arms, your wrists, your legs and your knees. Use the following link to the HSE to download a free copy of the DSE risk assessment and give it a go. https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ck1.htm

 

Janette Wright
Janette Wright

Janette is our Health and Safety Officer and is our health and safety guru. She is responsible for completing risk assessments with all of our employers to ensure that all of our apprentices are safe in their workplaces. Janette is dedicated to keeping us all safe and sharing good practice because, when it comes to health and safety, it just makes sense!

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