MESH carry out DSE Risk Assessments for companies in a diverse range of industries throughout the UK.
Our Head Office is in Kent, with regional offices located in London, The Home Counties, The Midlands, and The North East.
The MESH approach is to spend time with each individual user in order to complete the assessment while ensuring that the individual is fully trained in how to set up their workstation correctly. Each DSE assessment is followed up with an individual written report that enables management to understand whether improvements are required.
In our experience staff are usually unaware of the effects of poor workstation set-up on their health and often disregard aches and pains. Some may get aches and pains in their hands, wrists, arms, neck, shoulders or back, especially after long periods of uninterrupted DSE work. These are usually referred to as work-related upper limb disorders and if not addressed can sometimes lead to more persistent pain or even disabling injuries.
In fact, what many employers ignore is that an estimated two million people suffer from ill health that is thought to be work-related. A significantly high proportion being related to musculoskeletal disorders (e.g. upper limb or back problems). Many of these subsequently turn into claims against the employer through civil actions.
As employers you need to be asking:
- Is there regular use of display screens as a significant part of the work in your workplace?
- Does anyone use a keyboard, mouse or other input device? Are people complaining of discomfort, aches and pains?
The Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Regulations require you to carry out specific risk assessments in which you will need to:
- analyse workstations, and assess and reduce risks;
- ensure workstations meet minimum requirements;
- plan VDU work so that staff have breaks or changes of activity;
- provide eye and eyesight tests for VDU users who request them, and provide spectacles if special ones are needed; and
- provide health and safety training and information for VDU users.
Click here to view clients throughout the UK that have used MESH for Display Screen Equipment risk assessments.
MESH Consultants has assisted in the development of comprehensive risk assessments for a number of clients throughout the UK, which enables those clients to learn by those experiences and put procedures in place to develop risk assessment in the future.
For an informal confidential discussion about how our risk assessment services can help your business, please do contact us without obligation.
