Display Screen Equipment Risk Assessments

There is a legal requirement (the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992) to conduct a specific display screen equipment risk assessment for employees classed as “users” of display screen equipment.

Employees meet this classification of “user” if they meet the following criteria:

• They use the display screen equipment on a daily basis; and
• They use the display screen equipment for an hour or more at a time; and
• They could not do their job without the display screen equipment

The assessments should cover:

• The screen
• The keyboard
• The mouse
• The software
• The furniture (desk, chair etc.)
• The environment (heating, lighting etc.)

Phoenix Health and Safety can assist with your display screen equipment risk assessment requirements in a variety of ways:

1. We can conduct the assessments for you. All assessments are conducted by a fully qualified health and safety expert. Reports are produced detailing all findings and reccomendations for each user.

2. Clients on health and safety support contracts are provided with health and safety manuals that contain display screen self-assessment forms. Users follow a questionnaire format, and any problems or issues can be followed up by our expert consultants.

3. We are able to provide clients with an online display screen equipment service. Users log in to our secure website, and are guided through a self-assessment questionnaire. Video and pictorial training is provided throughout the system, ensuring that users are trained to operate equipment safely whilst conducting their assessment. Results and actions required are all logged electronically, and clients have full admin access to stats, reports etc.

Click here to see a demonstration of the system in use.

We can also provide training in display screen equipment risk assessment.

Please contact us for an informal discussion with our expert team on how we can help.