DSE Assessor Training & Assessments
Elevate your workplace with DSE Assessor Training. Equip your team with the skills to conduct assessments, ensuring employee comfort and preventing ergonomic issues.
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Employee Comfort & Health: Ensure the well-being of your workforce by training assessors to create ergonomic workspaces, reducing discomfort and health-related issues.
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Regulatory Compliance: Stay compliant with health and safety regulations, avoiding potential fines and legal complications while fostering a safer work environment.
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Increased Productivity: Optimise workspaces for productivity, resulting in happier, more focused employees, and ultimately, improved business performance.
DSE Standard course (1 day in-house or 3hr online course)
This course is for any employee interested in DSE and Health and Safety, including Line managers, health and safety professionals, facilities and HR personnel.
What Will the Course Cover?
- Introduction to Ergonomics. – Workstations should not be a one-size-fits-all. Even if your equipment complies with HSE regulations, it doesn’t always follow that it will suit all your employees. This course will show you how to set up the users to be comfortable and supportive and explain how to spot when the equipment is unsuitable. This will help reduce musculoskeletal injury.
- DSE legislation. – what the law says and how to ensure you are compliant, including the Equalities Act/ Health and Safety Law
- Basic Anatomy and common musculoskeletal issues. Knowing what can go wrong will help you to understand the importance of a good DSE set-up.
- Advised DSE workstation set up. – The knowledge of how to set up the workstation, how high you should sit, how to adjust the chair and where the equipment goes on the desk. This section also includes information on why movement is so important.
- Practical – For in-house courses, this enables the delegates to practice what they have learned at a workstation.
For online courses – at the end of the presentation, an analysis of desk set-ups will be carried out.
By the end of the course, delegates will have the confidence to conduct DSE assessments and they will have gained an understanding of the regulations associated with DSE. They will better understand the more common musculoskeletal conditions and how these can be prevented when working at a computer workstation.
Empowering Health and Safety Advocates:
This course empowers individuals across various roles, such as line managers, HR personnel, and safety professionals, to become effective champions of DSE and workplace health and safety.
Expertise in Ergonomics:
Gain in-depth knowledge of ergonomics, allowing you to create comfortable and supportive workstations tailored to individual needs. Learn to identify unsuitable equipment, reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries.
Legal Compliance & Health Awareness:
Understand DSE legislation, including the Equalities Act and Health and Safety Law, ensuring compliance with regulations. Learn about basic anatomy and common musculoskeletal issues to prevent workplace injuries and promote employee well-being.
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