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William Love
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Presumably the ambulance was called via the 999 system, it's normal practice for police to attend an emergency situation, if they can. Once in attendance they a have legal duty to investigate and in this case as it was clearly a work related accident, pass a report to the HSE. As this accident was RIDDOR reportable it would have been prudent to call the incident line 0845 30009923 and begin a verbal incident report immediately, you will be supplied with an incident number, followed up by submitting an F2508 after an internal investigation had been carried out. Copies of the F2508 are forwarded by Caerphilly to your local HSE office which would then be married up to the police report. The HSE would then instigate an investigation if the case was serious enough, there are times when an HSE Inspector will phone the victim and / or the originator of the F2508 to seek clarification on certain issues which may be enough to avoid a full HSE investigation
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Lisa
We use an inhouse version of the HSE workstation checklist, allowing the users to carry out a self assessment of their working environment and the risks as they perceive it, the completed form is then passed to our trained DSE assessor for follow up. There is a need for someone in your office environment to be trained up as a DSE assessor otherwise any findings cannot be followed up effectivly. DSE assessor training is widely available from many providors usually lasting a day or less and is a worthwhile excercise
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William Love
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Lisa
A 'VDU workstation checklist' is avialable from the HSE website for each user to use as a self assessment, it is extremenly useful, and by using the official form you will be meeting the requirements of the DSE regulations. Be prepared from some wonderful, imaginative and entertaining comments from your VDU operatives......I could write a book on it
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