Workstation Health & Safety Training & Risk Assessment
ONEphysio has over 3 years experience working in the corporate sector delivering workstation training and risk assessments. ONEphysio has also been involved in the national set up of an electronic online DSE training and risk assessment package for a large global company. With extensive work with treating musculoskeltal disorders/upper limb disorders of office workers and musicians ONEphysio is ideally placed to deliver the following services to London/South East regions:
DSE Health and Safety Training:
On-site presentation
Overview
All organisations today have a legal requirement to ensure their staff are adequately trained in the correct use of their workstation:
Provision of training ( The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992, section 6)
6.—(1) Where a person-
(a) is already a user on the date of coming into force of these Regulations; or
(b) 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.
Summary of Presentation
- Aids compliance with The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992, section 6
- Provides the DSE user with details on how to achieve the correct posture at their workstation, how to set up their workstation for correct use (including screen height,distance, keyboard/mouse position, equipment layout) and key health information such as minimising eye fatige, eye & eye sight testing and minimising stress.
- 10 delegates at a time.
- Duration 45mins-60mins
- Test at end of Presentation to demonstrate understanding of the training.
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DSE Health & Safety Risk Assessment:
On-site Risk Assessment
Overview
It is a legislative requirement that every employer "perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of [employee] workstations".
Analysis of workstations ( The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992, section 2)
2.—(1) Every employer shall perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of those workstations which-
(a) (regardless of who has provided them) are used for the purposes of his undertaking by users; or
(b) have been provided by him and are used for the purposes of his undertaking by operators,
for the purpose of assessing the health and safety risks to which those persons are exposed in consequence of that use.
(2) Any assessment made by an employer in pursuance of paragraph (1) shall be reviewed by him if-
(a) there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid; or
(b) there has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates;
and where as a result of any such review changes to an assessment are required, the employer concerned shall make them.
(3) The employer shall reduce the risks identified in consequence of an assessment to the lowest extent reasonably practicable.
(4) The reference in paragraph (3) to "an assessment" is a reference to an assessment made by the employer concerned in pursuance of paragraph (1) and changed by him where necessary in pursuance of paragraph (2).
Summary of Risk Assessment
- Group or Single Assessments available
- Allow approximately 30mins per employee and upto 90mins minutes for more complex cases
- Risk Assessment form is sent electronically to employee and returned to ONEphysio prior to visit
- A ONEphysio DSE assessor will make arrangement to visit the user/users workstation
- The risk assessment form will be discussed in detail and changes will be made as able to comply with regulations
- A folow-up report will be sent listing general findings and any outstanding risks
- Recomendations on equipment provision will be made
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Web Based Learning Package
ONEphysio is currently developing a low cost business solution to providing DSE training and risk assessment to employees via a web based training package.
Benefits include :
- Ability to deliver a low cost DSE training and risk solution package across many sites
- Aids Compliance with The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
- Aims to deliver the training package in 15minutes
- Completion of the risk assessment questionnaire in under 5 minutes
- Prevents costly on-site visits to those employees who are not at risk or have not highlighted any problems with their workstation.
- Only those employees who highlight risks/problems will need further investigation
- Free information leaflets for employees to download - updated regularly
Coming Soon - details to be posted on availability
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For all bookings/enquires please call +44 (0) 7930904627
or email : contact@onephysio.com
