Who Is Classed as a Dse User?

DSE refers to Display Screen Equipment such as PC's, laptops, tablets, TV screens and even smartphones. The HSE (Health & Safety Executive) class anyone who uses at least one of these for an hour or more at a time as a DSE user.

Who can be considered as a DSE user?

A 'user' or 'operator' is a worker or self-employed person who uses display screen equipment as a significant part of their normal work. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) specify that it applies to 'workers who use DSE daily, for an hour or more at a time not infrequent users or short-term use'.

What makes someone a DSE user?

As such, L26 states that a security control room operative whose main work is to monitor a bank of display screens showing the pictures from CCTV cameras, and operate controls to select, zoom in, etc on particular images, would be deemed to be a DSE user.