You may have workers in your organisation who use VDU’s (computer monitors) or other display screens.
Employers have a duty to:
- Risk assess your workers’ VDU and workstations and ensure they meet the minimum requirements
- Plan work to ensure there are breaks or changes of activity.
- Arrange eye tests on request and provide spectacles if special ones are needed.
- Provide Health and Safety information and training.
For more information see:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/dse/index.htm
for brief details of the requirements for work stations the HSE’s guide to ‘working with VDUs’
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (8 pages)
