Display Screen Equipment Regulations

Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (Display Screen Regulations)... 

To encourage employers to protect the health of their workers and reduce the risks associated with VDU work, the HSE have introduced the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992. The regulations came into force on 1 January 1993, and employers who use standard office VDUs must show that they have taken steps to comply with the regulations. 

Good employers, who comply with the Display Screen Equipment Regulations, should let their employees know what care has been taken to reduce the risk to their health and safety at work. Users should be given information on ... 

Display screen equipment at work. Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992. Guidance on the Regulations The control of asbestos at work. Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 1987. Approved Code of Practice. (Due to be updated to cover the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002)... 

Under the U.K. s Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations of 1992, it is a legal requirement for the employer to perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of user workstations. An ergonomic evaluation will be based on an existing... 

The above comments have been directed at general activity risk assessments. It is easy to forget that more specific assessments could be required in order to comply with (for example) the Manual Handling Operations Regulations, the Display Screen Equipment Regulations (which apply to display screens in use in site offices) and the assessment requirements within the Personal Protective Equipment Regulations. These are addressed in more detail later in this chapter. 

There is no prescribed format for risk assessments. Health and Safety Executive guidance is limited to Five Steps to Risk Assessment , which is considered to be insufficiently detailed for construction industry needs, and specimen examples in the guidance material associated with the Manual Handling Operations Regulations and the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations (see below). 

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