Posted By Jonathan Breeze Yup, It's up there in Regulation 4 which states: "Every employer shall so plan the activities of users at work in his undertaking that their daily work on display screen equipment is periodically interrupted by such breaks or changes of activity as reduce their workload at that equipment." So not only is that saying breaks, but it says that the employer (and not the individual user) should make them happen. I suggest to team leaders that their teams should have a standing order to do somthing else for about 5 minutes every hour (e.g. filing making a brew or whatever can be done away from the monitor). Hope that helps.

Posted By Brian John Abbs When carrying out DSE assessments I have taken up the practice of advising users to break for 5 minutes for every 45min-1Hr. The most important thing that someone can do when they break is let their eyes focus on infinity, eg. look out the window. This allows the muscle in the eye to relax.