Information for Health & Safety Officers

115 million days were lost from work due to back pain in Britain in 1994/95 (Dept. of Social Security)

200,000 people are affected by RSI costing UK industry up to £1 billion (TUC estimate, 1995)

All employees must ensure that work on computers is periodically interrupted by breaks or changes in activity.(UK health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992)

Compensation awarded for a single typing related RSI case has reached £155,000 (approx $250,000 US).

• Protect staff from injury
  
• Reduce the cost incurred by absence
  
• Reduce potential for future compensation claims
  
• Comply with current UK and EC regulations
  
• Increase productivity and quality of output
  
• Reduce stress and improve morale
  
• Low, one off installation cost
  
• Easy network installation
  
• Easy customisation
  

Regulation 2
"Every employer shall perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of [computer] workstations."
We recommend using DSE Manager to do this.

Regulation 4
"Every employer shall so plan the activities of users at work in his undertaking that their daily work on display screen equipment is periodically interrupted by such breaks or changes of activity as reduce their workload at that equipment."
We recommend using ScreamSaver to do this.

Regulation 6
"Every employer shall ensure that each user at work in his undertaking is provided with adequate health and safety training."
We recommend using the ScreamSaver Computer Safety Training program to do this. You can even use it to register that the training has been done.

The EC directive gives european employers an obligation to look after their staff in the similar ways that UK employers must protect them. Your own country will have similar laws to those mentioned above. (If it doesn't then it should have!)

• Setting initial timings for your staff to use.
• Enforcing the recommended time limits.
• Displaying the name and details of your computer health and safety contact.
• Displaying a customised message on the screen.
• Providing a direct link to you company safety policy.
• Logging and analysis of all breaks taken and those ignored.

1. Download the trial version and install it for employees at risk Click here to download.
2. Gather their feedback after a couple of weeks.
3. Obtain a price for a company licence from Infinite Innovations Ltd.
4. Order the licence.
5. Obtain a special key to unlock the software for your company.
6. Distribute to all computers and networks.