DSE assessments for the people who are not on the tools
Trade businesses have offices too. The DSE Regulations apply to anyone using display screen equipment daily, and Gaffer records the workstation checks — screen, keyboard, mouse, chair, desk height, lighting and breaks — for the staff running the back office.
Part of health & safety in Gaffer, which replaces a folder of last year’s templates with the dates changed.
The H&S paperwork gets done because it lives where the work is.
Risk assessments, method statements, permits, toolbox talks, inspections and registers, covering what an inspector, a main contractor or an insurer will ask for.
Win tenders that demand evidence, and sleep better knowing the file is complete.
DSE assessments are one of the 40 things in health & safety. See the rest →
- Workstation location and a description of the equipment in use
- Daily DSE hours and whether regular breaks are taken
- Screen adequacy, glare, keyboard and mouse suitability checks
- Chair adjustability, desk height, footrest and document holder provision
- Lighting and environment checks with any actions required
- Assessment and review dates so reassessments are not missed
Step 04 of the job: on site
The engineer taps “On my way” and the customer gets a text with an arrival window. On site: clock in, photos, the certificate for the job — EICR, Gas Safety, whatever the trade needs — signed on the device. No signal? It syncs later.
Health & Safety is where DSE assessments sits, and that is the step it shows up in most. The rest of the job — quoting, scheduling, certificates, invoicing and payment — runs in the same system, on the same record. See the whole job →
What are DSE assessments for?
Trade businesses have offices too. The DSE Regulations apply to anyone using display screen equipment daily, and Gaffer records the workstation checks — screen, keyboard, mouse, chair, desk height, lighting and breaks — for the staff running the back office. Trade businesses have offices too.
Will this satisfy a main contractor asking for RAMS?
It produces the document they ask for, specific to the job rather than last year’s with the address changed, as a PDF you can send before you arrive. Their pre-qualification questions are their own, but the evidence is in one place.
Do the assessments have to be filled in on site?
That is the point of them, and the app is built for it — but they can be prepared in the office and signed on site, which is how most crews actually work.
Which plan is it on?
Every paid plan. DSE assessments is included for unlimited users at no extra cost — the monthly, annual and lifetime plans differ only in how you pay.
The rest of Health & Safety
All 40 →- Record accidents and near misses the same day
- Describe the job, get a RAMS first draft
- An asbestos register scored by priority risk
- Calibration records that keep your readings defensible
- Confined space permits with the gas readings on the permit
- The induction register a principal contractor asks for
- One COSHH assessment per substance, with review dates
- An environmental aspects register that scores significance
- Statutory equipment inspections against the right regulation
- Evacuation drills recorded with times, not just ticks
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