Working with display screen equipment — do you know your rights?

Abstract

The European Community Directive 90/270/EEC, issued in 1990, concerns the minimum health and safety standards of display screen users. The Directive becomes law in the UK and the rest of Europe on 1 January 1993 and instructs national administrations to bring the laws and regulations necessary to make it effective into force. In the UK this responsibility falls to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This paper describes possible risks to workers using display screen equipment, standards relating to visual display terminals, the provisions of the Directive, how these have been interpreted by the HSE in its draft legislation and the implications of this legislation for libraries.

Citation

Morris, A. (1992), "Working with display screen equipment — do you know your rights?", The Electronic Library, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 209-216. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045162