5 Dec 2017
New figures from Specsavers
Corporate Eyecare suggest there is a lack compliance with the Health and Safety
Display Screen Equipment regulations. While the research, undertaken among over
500 senior decision makers from UK companies, shows a willingness towards
providing DSE eyecare, it reveals a little as 10% of employers are fully
complying with the regulations.
New figures from Specsavers
Corporate Eyecare suggest there is a lack compliance with the Health and Safety
Display Screen Equipment regulations. While the research, undertaken among over
500 senior decision makers from UK companies, shows a willingness towards
providing DSE eyecare, it reveals a little as 10% of employers are fully
complying with the regulations.
The regulations state that employers
must provide all screen users with tests and glasses, if required solely for
DSE use. However, more than a third of employers (39%) do not provide any
eyecare at all for screen users. Almost a third, (30%) provide eye tests for
all, but not glasses. 14% provide eye tests for some and 7% provide the full
requirements – eyecare and glasses – but only for some screen users. This means that 61% of employers are at least
providing some level of eyecare, but just 10% are fully complying with the
regulations.
The research shows that employers
on average class around 68% of their employees as screen users. This falls to a
minimum of 55% in Wales and reaches a maximum of 77% in Yorkshire and
Humberside. Screen users are at the lowest (42% of employees) in the food and
drink industry, and the percentage of screen users is at its highest in the
media, at 94%. With, on average, only 10% of these employees receiving eyecare
fully compliant with the DSE regulations, a great many people are potentially missing
out significantly.
Jim Lythgow, director of
strategic alliances for Specsavers Corporate Eyecare, said: ‘The good news is
that there is an overall willingness to provide eyecare but this is not to the
extent as required by law. We believe there are two vital elements in increasing
the number of employers complying with the DSE regulations: the first is to
ensure they are educated about the full requirements of the legislation; the
second is to make DSE eyecare as simple and cost effective as possible to
procure.’
Specsavers Corporate Eyecare
has worked hard to raise the profile of the DSE eyecare. Its website includes a
knowledge bank for employers and useful tools, like downloadable posters, to communicate
benefits to employees. With simplicity being the key to eyecare procurement,
Specsavers has created an online eyecare management system, where employers can
purchase, distribute and manage eyecare eVouchers with just a few clicks of a
button.
To
view the online resources, find out more information, or purchase eyecare
eVouchers visit www.specsavers.co.uk/corporate
More
information on the Health and Safety (display screen equipment) Regulations can
be found at www.hse.gov.uk
Specsavers Corporate Eyecare
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