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Posted By Susan Powell
I know what DSE Regs have to say about workstations and equipment (including chairs) but can anyone shed any light on how this may be affected if someone with a disability (post stroke)needs to use a Display Screen which would mean for instance not using castors as the user will need more stability?
Has anyone any experience of how DSE may work alongside DDA?
Any constructive comments would be appreciated.
Thanks
SueP
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Posted By J Knight
Hi Susan,
There has been a recent discussion of this on this forum. In my view the purpose of the regs is to prevent harm arising from the use of DSE; the equipment and setup demonstrated in Schedule 1 will achieve this for a large percentage of users, however, there is no need to be so prescriptive if adhering to schedule 1 will defeat the whole purpose of the exercise. In other words, people with individual needs for safe use of DSE can and should be accommodated; myself I think they should get the kit they need, even if the 'rules' say its wrong, as that's what the law is all about.
Reasonable adjustment is the phrase in the DDA,
John
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Posted By Ron Hunter
This was recently discussed and clarified under the recent thread "Use of kneeling chairs"
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Posted By Amanda Moran
Hi Susan
I know this is old thread, in regard to the chairs for people with disabilities, you could use a anti slip mat in the area where they will be sitting or contact a good chair company and they can fit suitable castors which would not slip.
Amanda - Ergonomic Assessor
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Posted By Adrian Clifton
Sue
If you have a particular employee in mind, have them contact Access to Work at your local Job Centre Plus. Access to Work will assess workstation requirements, identify appropriate equipment and can usually help with the cost of any special equipment required. I have used this route on several occaisions and will continue to do so in the future. The employee (or prospective employee) needs to make the first contact with Access to Work to give their permission for you to be begin the process.
Hope this is helpful for you.
Adrian
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Posted By LTN
We've also used the Access to Work route for a very similar concern. It will help incase they need more than just a suitable chair, maybe a height adjustable table too? But their assessors will conduct their own assessment regardless of our full DSE. And it's quite a lengthy process - in our experience anyway. So if you can make your employee comfortable as much as possible in the mean time that will help. We gave him another chair which he's more comfortable with.
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Posted By duncan abbott The DSE regulations necessiate a basic requirement to meet the ergonomuic needs of users based on ISO 9241. They don't take into account the needs of disabled workers - as disability is too infinite to generalise. Thus ergonomic assessments of disabled workers are required. Having carried out over 3,500 specialist assessments, I can say that coming into conflict with these regulations has never been an issue - as solutions generated far exceed the outcome of any DSE risk assessment. An example of when accommodating a disabled worker can come in conflict with the regulations, is when an assessment has been carried out for a visually impaired person by one of the blind association assessors, and new equipment has been put in place without consideration to the ergonomic requirements of that user. Unfortunately this is common place as the assessment was not holistic in intention. If the DSE user has suffered a stroke and is usstable there is likely to be other issues of a cognitive and physical nature and so he or she is likely to require other adjustments. FYI we produce a handbook on 'How to undertake personal risk assessments for disabled workers' see www.enricosmog.com. This is the only resource of its kind produced in the UK and that is the reason for its mention.
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