DSE

The minimum space entititlement per person under European legislation is 11 cubic metres. Where the ceiling height exceeds 3 metres it is deemed to be 3 meters so that the overall footprint for the individual is at least 3.7 square metres, (which conforms closely to the old UK standard of 40 square feet under the OSRPA).
In a typical room with a 2.4 m (8 ft) ceiling the floor area for the footprint needs to increase to 4.6 square meters ( more or less 50 square feet).
These are minima and may not be enough to satisfy the requirements of Workplace Health Safety and Welfare Regs if too much space is taken up by furniture etc.
There are exceptions, for example conference rooms, lecture rooms, but otherwise you need to factor in how much of the available space is unoccupied or dependant on the nature of work. For example, a door designed for wheelchair access may eat into the 'unoccupied' space to satisfy access requirements. Your space planning would need to compensate for it.

Thanks Phil.
Hi John, I cannot give you line and verse but main corridor should be minimum 1000mm (known as primary circulation) and isles 900mm (known as secondary circulation). Please consider how many staff will need to use it in case of emergency evacuation.
If you have line of desks then consider means of escape and normal circulation. If a row of desks are next to wall then secondary circulation would be 1000mm minimum. This is made up of width of the chair from the edge of the desk plus room for someone to pass by.
Phil's link gives 11 cubic metres per person, I take it if this was a single office cube.
Anoop

thanks Phil

but does not cover fire regs

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg244.pdf

should answer your question and a lot of other questions

Phil

Can anyone please tell me the minimum space requirements for a DSE user in an office? We are currently looking at refurbishing our office and I need to pass the information on to my manager. (I think it may be 11 cubic meters but not sure were I read it) any help will be greatly appreciated.

John