Employers should be ensuring that they offer users the facility to find a comfortable working position by providing them with enough workspace and suitable furniture and equipment.

The Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 Require employers to ensure that any regular DSE user has a suitable and sufficient assessment of their workstation carried out and that daily work routines are planned, encompassing adequate breaks or changes of activity to reduce their workload at that equipment.

he Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations (1992) cover the use of computers at work.

Many companies have policies on eyesight tests, so check with your personnel, health and safety, occupational health or union safety representatives. An assessment of the workplace should be carried out to identify computer users.