Posted By Swis
Employer needs to provide free eye/sight test for users of display screen equipment. And display screen equipment means

any alphanumeric or graphic display screen, regardless of the display process involved.

Posted By Robert_N
Is the amount of time they use it a factor?

Posted By DP
Robert drop me aline and we'll have a chat - just been through this.

Posted By Tabs
I am bewildered.

The screen is there to communicate information critical to customer satisfaction.

I would want to make absolutely sure my business did not face jeopardy through wrong items being dispatched ... of course I would pay for eye tests :-)

H&S Laws are there to protect people, but few of them are needed if business risks are well managed.

Posted By andy.c.
Robert,

This was discussed at lenght a short time ago, using the opinions given then and using the same type as equipment you descibe for similar purposes i timed the amount of actual use of the terminals both hand held and FLT mounted, in both cases actual use was below 1 hour per day and therefore operators were classed as non users of DSE at this time. will review in 6 months or if proceedures change.

hope this helps

Andy

Posted By A Campbell
We are talking about an hour of continuous use here... not overall through a 8 hour period etc

Posted By Alison Parker
Many national distributors with many thousands of employees have been challenged on the hand held devices and the outcome has always been they do not come under the regs. I have personally been involved with Enforcement Officers who have issued information to Trade Unions to the same.

In hope to end any bewilderment on the situation – RF was introduced to increase the quality and speed of picking operations in warehouse environments, most operation have robust audits procedure which would pick up issues regarding information not being able to be read clearly. These audits manage the risk adequately.

Many RF operations runs at a discrepancy rate of 0.3 % will millions of items being picked.