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I work in food production , engineering dept , my boss wants us to do all our desk based IT work on a tablet now whilst on the move, emails,work orders,spares allocation , planned maintenance etc etc
Can he do this and what regulations are there around risk assessing this ?
Tablet v Computer
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Re: Tablet v Computer
Hi
Risk assessments are covered under MHSWR 99: https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-sa ... ge-popular
For computer users etc, DSE Regulations: https://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/dse/
Hope this helps
Will
Risk assessments are covered under MHSWR 99: https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-sa ... ge-popular
For computer users etc, DSE Regulations: https://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/dse/
Hope this helps
Will
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Re: Tablet v Computer
I think you will find it highly impracticle to do this. Tablets have their uses for sure, but e-mails, reports, switching between applications etc is not easy, not easy at all.
If you are looking at health and safety reasons why this is bad you can try DSE but DSE came out before mobile phones and tablets which may fall foul od be excluded by virtue of a small screen. The key issue will be how much time you spend on the device in one go. How long does it take you to do all tyour e-mails, ordering and planning? can you do it whilst walking around or will you have to stop somwhere to do it? Looking at small creens will be bad for your eyes and certainly either standing or sitting, looking at them will be bad for your neck and back.
Look at Appendix 3 in the guidance book. Starts on page 50. Designed for laptops and noteboks (again, written before tablets were a thing) it talks about the difficulties with mobile devices and the need to risk assess. Here is one area to think about, if you have to walk around a dangerous area with your face in a tablet reading emails and doing orders, are you paying attention to your surroundings enough to be safe? or are you about to get hit by a fork lift truck?
I use tablets to audit sites every day. - I use it to take photos of everything, I then go sit down to complete the report because there are way to many hazards around for me to be playing tickbox timmy and if I had to stop every time I needed to negotiate a hazard, sod all would get done.
If you are looking at health and safety reasons why this is bad you can try DSE but DSE came out before mobile phones and tablets which may fall foul od be excluded by virtue of a small screen. The key issue will be how much time you spend on the device in one go. How long does it take you to do all tyour e-mails, ordering and planning? can you do it whilst walking around or will you have to stop somwhere to do it? Looking at small creens will be bad for your eyes and certainly either standing or sitting, looking at them will be bad for your neck and back.
Look at Appendix 3 in the guidance book. Starts on page 50. Designed for laptops and noteboks (again, written before tablets were a thing) it talks about the difficulties with mobile devices and the need to risk assess. Here is one area to think about, if you have to walk around a dangerous area with your face in a tablet reading emails and doing orders, are you paying attention to your surroundings enough to be safe? or are you about to get hit by a fork lift truck?
I use tablets to audit sites every day. - I use it to take photos of everything, I then go sit down to complete the report because there are way to many hazards around for me to be playing tickbox timmy and if I had to stop every time I needed to negotiate a hazard, sod all would get done.
