Screen Work (DSE): Set Up, Sit Well, Switch Off
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Set up your workstation in five minutes, take the right breaks, and know what your employer must provide.
- Assign to
- All staff
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Evidence
- 9-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Recognise what poorly set-up screen work does to your body.
- Adjust your chair, screen, keyboard and mouse, at a desk, a laptop or a hot desk.
- Build in changes of activity and know your eye test rights.
- Know what your employer must provide, and how to ask.
The course
- 01Why it matters
- 02Set up
- 03Breaks and eyes
- 04Ask for help
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Fix Mia’s set-up”, learners fix a realistic scene and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “How a flat laptop becomes a sore neck” and “Mia’s afternoon: breaks or no breaks?”.
How you know they finished
The 9-question quiz mixes multiple choice and spot-the-hazard questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (as amended)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 9-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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