This course has been updated and now includes Return to work assessments for DSE users who are in receipt of fit notes stating May be fit for work

DELEGATE COMMENTS

‘Thank you very much for an informative and interesting training course on Monday, I really enjoyed the content and feel I have learned a lot. It was especially useful handling some of the equipment’.

Kevin Coley, CAFCASS

‘Many thanks for the course last Friday it was very helpful. The workbook certainly covers a lot of material. Once we have had an opportunity as a team to discuss the course I will be recommending that we arrange a date for you to come and run the course here’.

Paul Butcher, Health and Safety Advisor, Suffolk County Council

‘Thanks for running such a comprehensive training programme the other day. We are very interested in an in-house course’.

Joe Igbokwe, Corporate Health & Safety Advisor, London Borough of Lambeth

'Just a quick note to say thanks for the input which was extremely useful and presented in a succinct manner which enabled learning without all the usual peripheral nonsense. An excellent input’.

Health and safety advisor, Northumbria Police

THE COURSE

The course is designed for experienced Display Screen Equipment assessors who require further training and the chance to update his or her skills.

Typical course delegates include: health and safety advisors, occupational health advisors, DSE risk assessors, please contact us by phone or email if you would like clarification.

On the course you will be shown how to:

• Evaluate your organisations DSE risk assessment tools 
• Update DSE assessments for home workers, mobile workers, and expectant mothers 
• Update your knowledge in relation to DSE work, posture and musculoskeletal disorders
• Understand what happens to the user when he or she sits and be able to competently discuss this with the user
• Use ergonomic methodology (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment – RULA tool), body maps and ergonomic principles
• Select seating in the seating exercise
• Select products by understanding anthropometrics (body dimensions), ergonomic principles and the DSE user's body requirements
• Undertake risk assessments for disabled and older workers and instigate audits to ensure their well being

 Course structure

A  number of case studies are considered throughout the course of the day, which have been chosen as good examples that cover all the areas of interest (expectant mothers, home and mobile workers, disabled and older workers, and selecting the right product for the right job)

At the end of the day delegates will have time to reflect on what has been learnt and decide how to put this in practice.

Course timetable and content

08.45 - 09.00 Welcome coffee

09.00 – 09.15 Introductions, overview of the course and case studies.

09.15 – 10.00  What is a DSE risk assessment and  what should a DSE management system consist of?  

This part of the course will allow delegates to get an understanding of what other companies DSE management systems consist of and understand Level 1, 2 and 3 assessments.

10.00 - 11.00  Overview of ergonomic tools

RULA, Body maps and video analysis will be used in relation to the case studies that are discussed and examined. By using ergonomic tools correctly the DSE assessor will be able to quickly diagnose and correct postural problems, as well as use simple quantitative analysis to justify workplace changes.

11.00–12.30 Keeping the DSE user safe when seated

Why conditions occur (circulation problems, varicose veins, upper limb conditions, neck, shoulder, back and lower limb pain). This also includes - Return to Work assessments.

12.30 –13.30 Lunch

13-30–14.15 How to select 'ergonomic' products

What is myth and what is truth - the keyboard, the mouse, the footrest, wrist supports, back supports, foot supports etc. Delegates will learn how to select chairs and measure DSE users, as well as use RULA, body maps and video analysis to analyse posture adopted when using new products. By understanding how to select products you can save your company thousands of pounds!

14.15– 15.00  Job and task design for older and disabled workers

As more and more older workers stay in the workplace and more disabled workers enter the workplace, the need to know how to ensure these groups of workers are kept safe and productive is essential when using computers. We are National Advisers to a number of organisations including the HSE on the formulation of risk assessments for these groups of workers.

Tea break

15.00 –15.45 PRACTICAL SESSION

Delegates will have a chance to work on one or the other case studies in teams.

15.45 –16.00 Round up and questions

Cost

£275.00 plus

Vat £48.13

Total due is £323.13

TO APPLY EITHER:
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2010

Salisbury - White Hart - 9th August 2010
Oxford -  Holiday Inn - 8th September
Salisbury - White Hart - 9th September 2010
Leeds -  Holiday Inn - 15th September
London -  Novotel Waterloo - 22nd September
Birmingham -  Holiday Inn - 29th September
Edinburgh -  Novotel - 12th October
Manchester - Novotel Central - 19th October
London -  Novotel Waterloo - 21st October
Milton Keynes - Holiday Inn - 17th November
London -  Novotel Waterloo - 24th November