VDU/DSE Assessor Training

This 1-day programme equips participants with the knowledge and skills to carry out Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Assessments correctly.

The course is highly participative. Participants take an active role in all modules. Participants are provided with checklists to facilitate them in assessing DSE/VDU workstations in their workplace.

• Introduction, Housekeeping, Course Outline, Aims & Objectives
• Legislative Framework – health and safety (display screen equipment) regulations 2007
• Understanding Ergonomics – principals of ergonomics, common issues in DSE use
• Conducting DSE Assessment (office and remote) – DSE checklist, identifying hazards and risks
• Mitigating Risks and Improving Workstations – adjusting workstations, positioning equipment, best practices
• DSE Assessment Workshop – conduct hands-on DSE assessment (various scenarios e.g. pregnant employee, tall employee etc.), review reports
• Promoting a Healthy DSE Environment – preventing upper limb disorders
• Assessment

Require 2 No workstations set-up scenarios within the training room – desk, office chair, phone.

Participants are required to carry out a practical DSE assessment and short theory assessment.

1 Day

8

DSE Assessors Certificate – Safetech

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.