Member Training: Display Screen Equipment Assessors Course

The aim of this course is to equip delegates to take a lead role in assessing office workstations and the wider management of associated musculoskeletal disorders (MSD).

Objectives – State the basic HSG65 management cycle, and illustrate how this can apply to the control of MSD’s arising from display screen equipment (DSE) use. – Understand the value of MSDs prevention. – State the minimum equipment/environmental requirements for workstations, as specified in the Schedule of L26. – Understand how the type of job/task can affect assessment (“occupational” factors). – Understand how the correct set up of DSE can prevent MSDs, and state the ideal set up. – Understand the “human” factors that can affect DSE users’ ability and willingness to use DSE correctly. – Demonstrate some of the key skills in ensuring DSE users improve their work station. – Develop an intervention hierarchy in the case of ill health arising from DSE use. – State the key sources of law and guidance, and where they can be found.

– Prerequisites: None, just enthusiasm (basic spoken English/literacy does help).  

–Duration: Half day training course; 09:00-13:00  

– Cost: £95.00+VAT – Venue: RedCat Training Rooms, 8 Thorpe Road, Norwich

– Course Tutors: Sarah Daniels/Richard Mills (Chartered Environmental Health Practitioners), who have spent over 50 years between them in profession. The RedCat Partnership has been providing health and safety training/ consultancy locally and nationally for 19 years.

For more information on this course please contact Mitchell