Overview

All organisations today have a legal requirement to ensure their staff are adequately protected from the risk of injury due to incorrect use of office equipment or inappropriately supplied equipment.

This training course covers all the essential issues including:

• maintaining a comfortable and correct seating position,
• the best way to set up computer equipment, and
• ways of managing your own health, in accordance with Health and Safety legislation and HSE guidelines.

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Course outline

PART 1: POSTURE

• This section goes into appropriate detail about how to achieve a correct seating position.

PART 2: COMPUTER EQUIPMENT

• This section discusses the display screen set-up including relative position and angle of screen, brightness, room lighting and desk position. It goes on to cover keyboard positioning and the appropriate equipment layouts.

PART 3: HEALTH MANAGEMENT

• This section covers the importance of eye care and allows your organisation to set out its own policy on this.

The course concludes with a short assessment to confirm understanding, the results of which are automatically saved to a database when used with the Audit+ Management System for further analysis.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out DSE training to branch locations, divisions and departments with a single installation
• Reduce training costs by removing the need for expensive centralised instructor-led DSE training
• Allow employees to set their own DSE training rosters thereby reducing the impact training may have on their day-to-day work schedules
• Effectively train employees in the proper use of DSE equipment without them ever leaving their workstation
• Provide essential DSE training in digestible modules that are proven to help improve understanding and retention levels
• Employees may complete the training over a period of time using automated browser-independent bookmarking
• Set global passmark specific to your organisation
• Customise aspects of the program to reflect your organisation's brand and policies on DSE issues
• Provide one-click access to useful organisation-specific contact information and references from within the training
• Automatically save test results to a database for analysis and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law when used with the Audit+ Management System
• Print-out training certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each training session

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Regulatory requirements

According to the Health & Safety Display Screen Equipment (DSE) regulations 1992, Section 6:

1. Where a person -
   1. is already a user on the date of coming into force of these Regulations; or
   2. is an employee who does not habitually use display screen equipment as a significant part of his normal work but is to become a user in the undertaking in which he is already employed,
   his employer shall ensure that he is provided with adequate health and safety training in the use of any workstation upon which he may be required to work.
2. Every employer shall ensure that each user at work in his undertaking is provided with adequate health and safety training whenever the organisation of any workstation in that undertaking upon which he may be required to work is substantially modified.

According to the Management of Health and Safety At Work Regulations 1999, Section 13:

1. Every employer shall, in entrusting tasks to his employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and safety.
2. Every employer shall ensure that his employees are provided with adequate health and safety training -
   1. on their being recruited into the employer's undertaking; and
   2. on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of -
      1. their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the employer's undertaking,
      2. the introduction of new work equipment into or a change respecting work equipment already in use within the employer's undertaking,
      3. the introduction of new technology into the employer's undertaking, or
      4. the introduction of a new system of work into or a change respecting a system of work already in use within the employer's undertaking.
3. The training referred to in paragraph (2) shall -
   1. be repeated periodically where appropriate;
   2. be adapted to take account of any new or changed risks to the health and safety of the employees concerned; and
   3. take place during working hours.

This training program helps your organisation fulfil this legal obligation. Training records may be maintained for years and are available for interrogation at anytime from any PC on your network when the program is used with the Audit+ Records Management System.

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Screenshots

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Training program start screen.

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Server and browser requirements

This training program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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