Here is the ergonomics legislation from
United Kingdom
The information here was collated from publicly available online sources by Ergo Global ergonomist, Fiona Tan. Some parts may have been edited for clarity or layout.
The Duties of
The Employer
- To perform a suitable and sufficient assessment of any workstation.
- To reduce the risks identified in the assessment to the lowest reasonable extent.
- To plan the activities of employees so that daily work on display screen equipment (DSE) is periodically interrupted by breaks or changes of activity.
- To plan the activities of employees so that daily work on display screen equipment (DSE) is periodically interrupted by breaks or changes of activity.
- To ensure that employees are provided at their request with an appropriate eye and eyesight test, any such test to be carried out by a competent person.
- To ensure that each employee is provided with special corrective appliances appropriate for the work being done by the user concerned.
The Duties of
The Employee
- To take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work.
- To co-operate with his employer so far as is necessary to enable the employer's duties or requirement to be performed or complied with.
Penalties
(1)It is an offence for a person—
(a)to fail to discharge a duty to which he is subject by virtue of sections 2 to 7;
(b)to contravene section 8 or 9;
(c)to contravene any health and safety regulations F1. . . or any requirement or prohibition imposed under any such regulations (including any requirement or prohibition to which he is subject by virtue of the terms of or any condition or restriction attached to any licence, approval, exemption or other authority issued, given or granted under the regulations);
(d)to contravene any requirement imposed by or under regulations under section 14 or intentionally to obstruct any person in the exercise of his powers under that section;
(e)to contravene any requirement imposed by an inspector under section 20 or 25;
(f)to prevent or attempt to prevent any other person from appearing before an inspector or from answering any question to which an inspector may by virtue of section 20(2) require an answer;
(g)to contravene any requirement or prohibition imposed by an improvement notice or a prohibition notice (including any such notice as modified on appeal);
(h)intentionally to obstruct an inspector in the exercise or performance of his powers or duties [F2or to obstruct a customs officer in the exercise of his powers under section 25A];
(i)to contravene any requirement imposed by a notice under section 27(1);
(j)to use or disclose any information in contravention of section 27(4) or 28;
(k)to make a statement which he knows to be false or recklessly to make a statement which is false where the statement is made—
(i)in purported compliance with a requirement to furnish any information imposed by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions; or
(ii)for the purpose of obtaining the issue of a document under any of the relevant statutory provisions to himself or another person;
(l)intentionally to make a false entry in any register, book, notice or other document required by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions to be kept, served or given or, with intent to deceive, to make use of any such entry which he knows to be false;
(m)with intent to deceive, to [F3forge or] use a document issued or authorised to be issued under any of the relevant statutory provisions or required for any purpose thereunder or to make or have in his possession a document so closely resembling any such document as to be calculated to deceive;
(n)falsely to pretend to be an inspector;
(o)to fail to comply with an order made by a court under section 42.
[F4(2)Schedule 3A (which specifies the mode of trial and maximum penalty applicable to offences under this section and the existing statutory provisions) has effect.
(3)Schedule 3A is subject to any provision made by virtue of section 15(6)(c) or (d).]
The information on this page comes from...
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
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