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Regulation 72 Duties of employer

(1) An employer, when providing display screen equipment for use by an employee at a workstation, shall -

(a) ensure that the general use of the equipment is not a source of risk for the employee,

(b) perform an analysis of the workstation in order to evaluate the safety and health conditions to which it gives rise for the employees, particularly as regards possible risks to eyesight, physical problems and problems of mental stress, and, on the basis of that evaluation, take appropriate measures to remedy any risks found, taking account of -

(i) the minimum requirements specified in Schedule 4, and

(ii) any additional or combined effects of any such risks so found,

(c) plan the activities of the employer's employees in such a way that daily work on display screen equipment is periodically interrupted by breaks or changes of activity which reduce workload at the display screen,

(d) without prejudice to section 9 of the Act, provide information to the employer's employees in relation to

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