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Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
Bridget Leathley explores how employees can use display screen equipment safely, with links to the latest guidance and research on how to minimise the risk of using VDUs. With sources ranging from the HSE and the London Hazard Centre to the BBC and the University of Reading, this offers a comprehensive range of advice.
Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage workers to report ill-health symptoms. The employee-centred approach aids locating workplace health hazards and flagging up workers' health problems, especially musculoskeletal disorders, as Jocelyn Dorrell reports.
Assessing employees' wellbeing
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
Health assessments for safety-critical staff make sense, says Lucie Ponting, but in other cases their value may be limited.
Employers' obligations on sight tests for DSE users
Adrian Taylor | Features | HSW | 04.04.2007
Why is there so much confusion about employees' entitlement to sight tests? Is it the regulations? Or the status of glasses? Adrian Taylor of Specsavers brings into focus employers' obligations on sight tests for display screen equipment users.
Screen-based training
Mike Denton | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Tony Dervan of EssentialSkillz argues that screen-based training and assessments can take the drudgery out of DSE compliance.
The cost of office hazards
Sarah Silcox | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
Sarah Silcox talks to a manager who argues office hazards can cost more than site accidents.
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