Course Details

CPD COURSE · ENGLAND AND WALES

Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Awareness

The Regulations, the workstation, the assessment and the people — for practitioners already working in the field.

NINE MODULES · 20-QUESTION KNOWLEDGE CHECK · VERIFIED SEPTEMBER 2026

CPD HOURS

20 hours

ACCREDITED BY

CPD Standards Office

FORMAT

Blended self-paced

SLIDES

PPT Deck

LISTEN

Audio Podcast

QUIZ

Audio Quiz

VISUAL

Infographic

Overview

This course supports practitioners who already carry responsibility for display screen equipment at work: DSE assessors, line managers, HR, health and safety, facilities and occupational health staff. It sets out the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 as amended, and the practice that turns compliance into genuinely lower risk, across nine modules running from scope and the law through health effects, workstation set-up, assessment, routine and breaks, eyes and eyesight, home and hybrid working, special cases and reasonable adjustments, to managing DSE across an organisation.

Every legal or regulatory point names the jurisdiction (England and Wales) and carries a visible caveat that Scotland and Northern Ireland differ. Every statistic on the slides names its source and year, and the content is verified as at September 2026 with a re-check expected before each delivery — HSE’s ill-health statistics, ONS working-patterns data, Vento-style evidence reviews and the eye-test entitlement amount all move at different intervals.

Who this course is for

Assumes the learner already works with DSE assessments, workstations or the people who use them. Not designed as a substitute for a recognised DSE assessor qualification, occupational health training, or legal advice on a specific personal-injury or disability-discrimination case.

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Health and safety practitioners, DSE assessors and coordinators who assess workstations and act on the findings

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Line managers and team leaders who are the first point of contact for symptoms, adjustments and equipment requests

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HR, facilities, IT and procurement staff who buy, issue and manage the equipment and records behind a DSE programme

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Occupational health, EDI and wellbeing practitioners who handle referrals, reasonable adjustments and home-working risk

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

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Define display screen equipment, a ‘user’, an ‘operator’ and a workstation as the Regulations do, and state the seven regulations and the wider law they sit inside for England and Wales.

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Recognise the musculoskeletal, visual and fatigue-related effects of DSE work at the level a practitioner needs, respond to reported symptoms, and know what is and is not RIDDOR-reportable.

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Set up a chair, desk, screen, keyboard and mouse to HSE’s posture guidance, and apply the Schedule’s minimum requirements to laptops, second screens and shared desks.

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Run a workstation assessment that satisfies Regulation 2, decide when self-assessment is enough and when an assessor must be involved, and record, action and review it defensibly.

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Apply Regulation 4 to real jobs, design breaks and changes of activity into the working day, and advise on posture change, micro-breaks and eye rest with the evidence behind them.

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State exactly what Regulation 5 entitles a user to, set up a workable eye-test scheme, and reduce visual fatigue through screen settings, lighting and habits.

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Apply the Regulations to home and hybrid workstations, assess them proportionately, and recognise the wellbeing risks of remote DSE work and the routes for support.

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Advise pregnant workers and people with epilepsy or existing conditions using HSE’s position, and link DSE assessment to the Equality Act duty to make reasonable adjustments.

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Build the policy, training and information that Regulations 6 and 7 require, set procurement standards and management information, and audit DSE arrangements so they stay current.

Career path

DSE competence sits inside several roles rather than being a job title on its own. The table shows where the course fits and what usually comes next; titles and requirements vary by employer and sector.

Stage	Typical roles	What usually gets you there
Practitioner	Line manager, HR adviser, team leader, health and safety officer	Working knowledge of the workstation and the Regulations; this course as a structured refresher
DSE assessor	Trained workstation assessor, DSE coordinator, H&S adviser	A recognised assessor course, observed assessments, refreshers every two to three years
Health and safety manager or specialist	H&S manager, risk and compliance lead, facilities H&S lead	Broader qualifications (e.g. NEBOSH or IOSH); management of the wider risk register, of which DSE is one hazard
Facilities, IT and procurement	Facilities manager, IT asset manager, procurement lead	Ownership of equipment standards, laptop kit and workstation specification across the organisation
Occupational health and wellbeing	Occupational health adviser, wellbeing lead, EDI or inclusion practitioner	Clinical or specialist qualifications; case experience with referrals, adjustments and return to work
Independent and specialist routes	Ergonomist, ergonomics consultant, ADSE-registered assessor	Specialist ergonomics training and, for some routes, professional registration

This course does not itself confer competent-assessor status, a health and safety qualification, or occupational health registration. Recognised assessor courses, NEBOSH or IOSH qualifications, and clinical or ergonomics training are separate routes that this course supports but does not replace.

Course structure

1
Scope and the Law

2
Health Effects

3
Workstation Set-up

4
Assessment

5
Routine and Breaks

6
Eyes and Eyesight

7
Home and Hybrid

8
Special Cases

9
Managing DSE

Each module opens with an illustrated slide stating the learning objectives, runs through ten teaching slides in rotating layouts, and closes with an Apply and Reflect slide carrying one external article or video. Modules 2 and 7 discuss musculoskeletal pain, visual problems, work-related stress, isolation and lone-working safety, pitched at recognition, response and referral only, never diagnosis or treatment. A practitioner-support note precedes each: learners may leave at any point without explanation, and support routes include a line manager, HR, occupational health, an employee assistance programme or trade union, a GP or NHS 111 for health concerns, and Samaritans on 116 123, plus a 20-question knowledge check with a trainer-only answer key and rationales.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Is this a qualification?

No. It is continuing professional development. It does not confer a qualification recognised by an awarding organisation, a professional membership, or any licence to practise, and it does not make anyone a competent DSE assessor on its own; a recognised assessor course and observed practice do that.

Q. Is it accredited, and how many CPD points is it worth?

No accreditation or points value is claimed. The provider must obtain any accreditation independently and confirm it before publishing. A course that overclaims is worse than no course.

Q. Is it legal advice?

No. The law is summarised for England and Wales at the level a practitioner needs, with sources named. A live personal-injury claim, a disability-discrimination case or a disputed enforcement notice needs advice from a solicitor or a qualified health and safety professional.

Q. Does it cover Scotland or Northern Ireland?

No. Every legal slide states that the law described applies in England and Wales and that Scotland and Northern Ireland differ. The course does not teach their equivalent provisions.

Q. How current is it?

Statistics and statutory references were verified in September 2026 and are dated on the slides. HSE publishes its ill-health and injury figures every November, and ONS working-patterns data moves quarterly. A re-check list must be worked through before each delivery.

Q. Does completing it discharge an employer’s DSE duties?

No single course does. The Regulations require an assessment of every user’s workstation, action on the findings, breaks, eye tests and training and information, kept current. This course gives practitioners the knowledge to do that; it is not itself the assessment, the policy or the equipment.

Q. Does it recommend specific products, such as blue-light glasses or a particular chair?

No. It reports the evidence, including a 2023 Cochrane review that found blue-light filtering lenses probably make no difference to computer-related eye strain, and points practitioners to the Schedule’s minimum requirements rather than to any brand or model.

Q. Are the videos and articles included?

No. Each module links to one external, publicly available article or video located by search. They are third-party content, not endorsed, and may change or be removed. Open every link before showing it to a group.

DISPLAY SCREEN EQUIPMENT (DSE) AWARENESS · 20 CPD HOURS · ACCREDITED BY CPD STANDARDS OFFICE · NINE MODULES

£25.00

Course Features

Lectures 11
Quizzes 2
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 2
Certificate Yes
Assessments Self