scope:

Application

This procedure applies to all situations in which Network Rail employees including new entrants and temporary staff, use Display Screen Equipment.

The procedure has been produced in order to regularise all procedures into a national format thus ensuring continuity across the country.

The risk assessments referred to in this procedure are assessment of the risks to the health and safety of individuals as they use Display Screen Equipment.

The reason for carrying out such risk assessments is to ensure that where employees are exposed to hazards that could damage their health during the course of their employment (whether physical, ergonomic, biological or chemical) the risks of them sustaining injury or becoming affected from the hazard are reduced 'so far as is reasonably practicable'.¹

This procedure should be implemented in line with the general advice and guidance contained with:-

• Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 Approved Code of Practice.

Purpose

The purpose of this procedure is to:

• Define the process for undertaking Display Screen Equipment Risk Assessments in a consistent manner.

• Ensure compliance with the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 2002;

• Ensure that control measures are put into place as identified by the Risk Assessment.

¹ Further guidance on the interpretation of 'so far as is reasonably practicable' can be found within NR/GN/RSC/00401 Managing Safety Risk