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Display Screen Equipment (DSE) eLearning
Online DSE training that walks a user through setting up their own workstation properly: screen, chair, keyboard, breaks, and completing the self-assessment their employer has to act on.
Who it is for
Who this DSE course is for
Display screen equipment covers far more than a desktop PC. If someone uses a screen as a significant part of their job, the DSE Regulations apply to them, whether they're in an office, at home, on a laptop at a client site, or at a fixed terminal on a factory floor.
- Office staff and anyone who works at a desk
- Homeworkers and hybrid workers using their own setup
- Laptop and tablet users working away from a fixed desk
- Call centre and customer service teams
- Control room and fixed-terminal operators
- Managers responsible for DSE assessments
- New starters, as part of induction
Course content
What the DSE course covers
Six short modules that get a user from “my back aches” to a workstation they have adjusted themselves and an assessment their employer can act on.
What DSE work does to you
Musculoskeletal problems, eye strain and fatigue: why they build up rather than arrive.
Who the Regulations cover
What makes someone a DSE user, including homeworkers and laptop users.
Setting up the workstation
Screen height and distance, chair, keyboard, mouse, desk and footrest: adjusted rather than admired.
Laptops and working away from the desk
The compromises laptops force, and the cheap fixes that remove most of them.
Posture, breaks and movement
Why short frequent breaks beat long rare ones, and what a change of activity counts as.
The DSE self-assessment
Completing the assessment honestly, and what your employer must do with what you report.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Say whether you are a DSE user under the Regulations
- Adjust your own chair, screen, keyboard and mouse correctly
- Set up a laptop so it stops causing neck and shoulder problems
- Take breaks in a way that actually reduces fatigue
- Complete a DSE self-assessment properly
- Know what you are entitled to ask your employer for, including eye tests
Your legal duty
The law behind DSE training
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 require employers to assess display screen equipment workstations, reduce the risks found, plan work so there are breaks or changes of activity, and provide eye and eyesight tests on request for users.
Training and information are part of the same package. Users must be given health and safety training in the use of any workstation they work at, and information about the risks and the measures taken. This course delivers that at awareness level and supports the self-assessment your employer collects.
- Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 7
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 - the wider working environment
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
DSE training across an office or a hybrid workforce
DSE is the course most often needed for everybody, and hybrid working made it harder. You cannot walk round and look at a homeworker's desk. Training plus self-assessment is how most employers close that gap.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your health and safety file
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own assessment form and equipment
Where you need someone to carry out or review the assessments rather than only train the users, we can help with that too. Talk to us about DSE assessments →
Display Screen Equipment (DSE) eLearning: common questions
For DSE users, yes. The 1992 Regulations require employers to provide health and safety training in the use of the workstation, along with information about the risks and the measures in place.
Very likely. It is about how much of your work depends on a screen, not the type of device. The course explains how the test works and how to make a laptop setup safe.
Yes. The Regulations follow the user, so homeworkers who are DSE users are covered. The self-assessment is how most employers manage a setup they cannot see.
DSE users can request an eye and eyesight test from their employer. The course explains what that covers and how to ask for it.
No. It trains the user and prepares them to complete a self-assessment. Acting on what comes back is still the employer's job.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences. You allocate them as people join, and completion reporting is included.
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