Employers have the same health and safety responsibilities for employees working from home as for any other employees.

This includes the duty not to charge for things done or provided pursuant to their specific requirements.

If you have staff working at home, you must still manage the risks to their health from display screen equipment (DSE).

It’s important to note, that there is no increased risk from DSE work for those working at home temporarily.

If working from home is a temporary arrangement for a staff member the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) states that employers do not need to ask them staff a carry out a DSE workstation assessments.

An overall home workers risk assessment is a sensible requirement to put into place for your team as this covers a range of risks which you can help the employee resolve.

During any period of temporary home working, employers still need to regularly discuss these arrangements with their employees.

If such work is adversely affecting the health, safety and welfare of their employees, employers should take appropriate steps.

However, employers should provide workers with advice on completing their own basic assessment at home.

Here are 5 simple steps people can take to reduce the risks from display screen work:

Breaking up long periods of DSE work with frequent breaks and take at least 5 minutes every hour.
Breaking up long periods of DSE work with changes in activity.
Avoid awkward, static postures and regularly change your position.
Get up form your work area and move around or do some stretching exercises.
Avoiding eye fatigue by changing focus or blinking from time to time. A few seconds staring at something different or out of the window can really help and also reduce the monotony (trust is we do it too!)

How ClickHSE can help managers effectively monitor and respond to their staff?

Yes. One key feature of ClickHSE allows managers to remain in contact with their staff through an interactive risk assessments.

Our interactive Risk Assessments are simply to complete in a step-by-step basis and capture any issues raised by staff for managers to monitor, act upon and sign off for a full audit trail.

Staff can also complete a fully engaging tutorial covering all key safety aspects on DSE which is also deployed and tracked under secure connection back to your own admin dashboard where all training records are securely logged.

Everything is automated so you mangers can instantly see areas of concerns without having to filter through reams of paperwork or emails.

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