Risk · UK duty guide
DSE
The workstation assessment, and the date it is due again.
On the file
The workstation, the person, and the date it is due again.
Duty
Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
Where it is used
On the person's own screen, in the office or the site cabin.
What the duty covers
- Screen, chair, desk, and the person who uses them.
- A review date, so it is not left until someone asks.
- For the office and the site cabin, not only head office.
On the file
- Screen, chair, and desk
- The person who uses them
- What was found
- What was changed
- The review date
How this duty should sit
These notes describe how the duty can sit on a digital record. This page is a guide to a UK duty. It is not a screen in EHSync Safety.
- The person does it on their own screen. You are not chasing paper forms.
- A review that is due shows up. It does not wait for an audit.
The duty
The UK law we work to, by name.
Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
Analyse the workstation. Reduce the risk. Review it.
Who uses it
The person at the workstation. Whoever looks after the office sees what is due.
Sits with
With that person's record. It covers the site cabin as well as head office.
What good looks like
Done by the person who sits there. A review that is due is visible.
Also in Risk
All guides- Risk assessmentsThe hazard, the score, the control, and the date it has to be looked at again.
- Hazard registerEvery hazard on the job, and the control that sits against it.
- COSHHThe substance on the task, not a folder of data sheets in the cabin.
- Substance registerWhat is on site, and where it is stored.
- Manual handlingThe load, the person, and the control.
- Working at heightThe task, the access, and the fall control.