DSE Training (Display Screen Equipment)
DSE Training is a legal requirement for anyone who regularly uses display screen equipment. Our Display Screen Equipment Training helps you work towards compliance with The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 and helps DSE users avoid RSI, headaches, eyestrain, and back problems; all of which are proven to contribute to absenteeism. Our course is IOSH & RoSPA Approved and includes an online DSE Risk Assessment.
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In 2020, 480,000 workers in Great Britain reported suffering from musculoskeletal disorders (HSE).
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Learning outcomes
- Learn how to set up your workstation correctly and stop bad office ergonomic habits
- Learn how to use portable devices (included in DSE) correctly
- Prevent 'DSE Stress' and become more productive at work as a result of good DSE
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Course contents
This DSE training course is broken down into 4 sections
- 1Physical
- 2Visual
- 3Stress
- 4Portables
Section 1
In this section, we’ll look at how you can minimise the risks to your physical health when you use DSE. We’ll explain how you should set up your DSE workstation and how to best use Display Screen Equipment, as well as how to maintain a good posture and why it’s so important.
Section 2
In our second section, we’ll cover the visual problems that can be highlighted when you use DSE, and we’ll explain what you can do to help prevent them. We’ll explain how things should look on your computer screen, how to handle lighting and glare, and we’ll explain how you can prevent eye strain and headaches.
Section 3
We’ve explained how sitting or standing in one position for too long can be harmful to your body, but it can also cause stress. So in this section, we’ll explain how important it is to take breaks and why changes in activity are crucial in reducing or preventing stress.
Section 4
In this final section, we cover portable display screen equipment, including laptops, tablets and phones, and we explain how you can prevent muscle and joint problems when you’re carrying them or using them on the move – this is especially important for remote or agile workers who may find themselves on the move more frequently.
About this course
Anyone who regularly uses a computer legally requires DSE Training, this is also commonly referred to as ‘Computer Health and Safety Training’ or ‘VDU (Visual Display Unit) Training’. DSE also refers to laptops, tablets, TV screens, and even smartphones.
It’s no wonder this type of training is a legal requirement when you consider the HSE reported that in 2017/18, 469,000 workers suffered from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Taking just 30 minutes to complete, our DSE training course will show you how to carry out a DSE risk assessment (DSE Risk Assessment also included), as well as how to better arrange your existing workplace equipment to minimise common negative symptoms associated with extended periods of time spent at a computer (such as eye strain, backache, etc.)
Whatever the type or size of your company, all your employees who sit at a computer for any part of their working day should have Display Screen Equipment training. This course has been designed to increase safety and awareness and to aid compliance with workplace regulations. This DSE training programme ensures that your employees understand how best to take care of their health by ensuring that their immediate working environment is the best it can be.
Includes online DSE Assessment Tool
Our DSE Assessment Tool simplifies DSE compliance and provides a complete online management tool for swift and simple issue resolution. With our training and assessment tool, working towards Display Screen Equipment compliance is simple!
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This DSE Training (Display Screen Equipment) course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your DSE Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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The most useful so far
This is a very useful training session – I liked the tips for resting eyes and exercising – very relevant to my work.
The course was informative and ran at a good pace allowing the user to rewatch certain sections if needed.
Overall the course was clear and concise, providing important points, hints and tips when using digital display equipment. The only issue I had was how the course was set up and navigated. When watching a video, I had set the video to full screen mode, but at the end of each segment, the user was taken out of full screen mode, which was annoying as there were 28 slides to navigate through and had to click on then full screen option each and every time I would click on next.
Majority not relevant to role
Very similar to previous training received. Better approach would be for all staff to complete the test for each unit and if they pass, to not need to sit through video input. It feels like a very time-consuming and not productive use of our time. Sorry!
Long and a bit obvious
DSE is really important but I thought this was a bit preachy and long – soz.
Very interesting course and learnt lots of new information
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Essential training for any new employee
This training has given me a refresher from my last employment and made me adjust my work station and my body posture in a better and comfortable position.
this course presented as good clear and informative.
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Thought I was taking the assessor course. Found the course very helpful
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
Display Screen Equipment Regulations:
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations of 1992 regulations (particularly parts 2, 4, 6 and 7) stipulate a legal workplace requirement that:
All employees are provided with adequate health and safety training in the use of any workstation upon which they may be required to work.
Employees are provided with adequate information regarding all aspects of health and safety relating to their workstations.
Employers should perform health and safety risk assessments of workstations.
In terms of the frequency and nature of this training, employers are required to provide this 1) “When employment is started,” to be 2) “repeated on a regular basis, as well as where risks may be increased due to changes of responsibilities or changes in working practices; adapted to take account of new risks to health and safety;” and must “take place during working hours.”
Penalties for not following The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations of 1992
Failure to provide Display Screen Equipment training to employees is a breach of DSE regulations. This can lead to employers facing prosecution, jail time and fines. Providing a DSE training course will help protect your business from any liability claims.
