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Posted By John Herron
Does anyone know where to find best advice on the use of Laptop computers at home or at work. Any direction or pointers to information would be appreciated
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Posted By Darren J Fraser
John
Could you provide a bit more information, such as mean of the term 'use of at work or at home'. Need to understand how often used e.g. once a day, every hour or continuously and by whom e.g. sales rep etc.
If used at work, in the same way as a standard PC then consider 'docking' the laptop to the PC.
E.g. Laptop is used during day by travelling sales rep, however when at home or office the laptop is 'docked' to a PC and the two units are 'synched', work is continued on main PC.
Also have you carried out a risk assessment, specifically into the use of laptops, looking at such things as wrist position in relation to the keyboard, angle of screen etc.
May be worth contacting The Ergonomics Society to see if they have any information, I assume that you have also searched the HSE website for any relevant information, and obviously googled the same question.
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Posted By Alex Ryding
Hi Just a quick tip. You can buy an item called a riser, this is normally an triangular peice of fold up acrylic. You place this under the laptop then use a seperate keyboard and mouse, this give a much better ergonomic position than using the monitor on the laptop and is much more portable than a docking station and monitor. Most ergonomic shops sell them (about £50-£100 each).
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Posted By Jim Walker
A couple of copies of yellow pages works just as well.
Seperate (full size) keyboard & mouse essential.
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Posted By Steve JB
Have a look at L26 with regard to DSE assessments
Steve
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Posted By Martin Monaghan
Appendix 3 of the HSE Guidance on the DSE Regs (L26)gives guidance on the use of portable display screen equipment.
Martin.
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Posted By jackw.
Hi, as stated HSE, ROSPA and others offer good advice guidance. Also as stated depends on how long they will be using it. average over a week is advisable.. but be careful..4 hours 1 night average over a week looks ok but 4 hours constant .you would need to supply a separate detachable keyboard etc. Remember too home DSE working you need to consider other areas.lighting, desk lay out etc. etc. I am sure this sounds familiar.but you need to do a proper rsk assessment and address any issue as they occur
Cheers hope this helps
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Posted By Mike Herbert
A useful website for such stuff
www.openerg.com/dse
This has a lot of good advice which i get colleagues to use as an interim measure and get comfortable.
There is a section on notebooks
regards
mike
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Posted By warderic
Let me have your e-mail address and I will send you over a policy with all the detals
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