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The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
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- 1992 No. 2792
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5.—[F1(1) Where a person—
(a)is a user in the undertaking in which he is employed; or
(b)is to become a user in the undertaking in which he is, or is to become, employed,
the employer who carries on the undertaking shall, if requested by that person, ensure that an appropriate eye and eyesight test is carried out on him by a competent person within the time specified in paragraph (2).
(2) The time referred to in paragraph (1) is—
(a)in the case of a person mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), as soon as practicable after the request; and
(b)in the case of a person mentioned in paragraph (1)(b), before he becomes a user.]
(3) At regular intervals after an employee has been provided [F2(whether before or after becoming an employee)] with an eye and eyesight test in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2), his employer shall, subject to paragraph (6), ensure that he is provided with a further eye and eyesight test of an appropriate nature, any such test to be carried out by a competent person.
(4) Where a user experiences visual difficulties which may reasonably be considered to be caused by work on display screen equipment, his employer shall ensure that he is provided at his request with an appropriate eye and eyesight test, any such test to be carried out by a competent person as soon as practicable after being requested as aforesaid.
(5) Every employer shall ensure that each user employed by him is provided with special corrective appliances appropriate for the work being done by the user concerned where–
(a)normal corrective appliances cannot be used; and
(b)the result of any eye and eyesight test which the user has been given in accordance with this regulation shows such provision to be necessary.
(6) Nothing in paragraph (3) shall require an employer to provide any employee with an eye and eyesight test against that employee’s will.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 5(1)(2) substituted (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 3(b)
F2Words in reg. 5(3) inserted (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 3(c)
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