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Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments-

Display screen equipment (DSE) is any work equipment having a screen that displays information. Typical examples are computer screens often called monitors or VDUs.

Surveys have found that high proportions of DSE workers report aches, pains or eye discomfort. Mostly these conditions do not indicate any serious ill health, but it makes sense to avoid them as far as possible.

The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations aim to protect the health of people who work with DSE. That does not mean that DSE work is risky – it isn’t, if the user follows good practice like setting up their workstation well and taking breaks in intensive work.

We are able to carry out the DSE risk assessment onbehalf of your company and suggest any improvements.

Risk Assessment
A risk assessment is a careful examination of what could cause harm to people in the workplace. Doing a risk assessment will help employers identify the significant risks in their workplace, and avoid wasted effort by effectively targeting these. A good risk assessment will help avoid accidents and ill health, which can not only ruin lives, but can also increase costs to business through lost output, compensation claims and higher insurance premiums.

Risk assessment is a five stage process and involves:

looking for the hazards;
deciding who might be harmed and how;
evaluating the risks and deciding whether the existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done;
recording your findings and telling your employees about them; and
reviewing your assessment and revising it if necessary, for example:
if the work changes significantly;
if there is an accident; or
when someone returns to work after sickness or injury, or suffers a change in their health, that could affect or be affected by their work.