When organisations think about DSE risk, the focus often lands on obvious issues — discomfort reports, poor workstation setups or equipment requests.

But what happens when the bigger risk isn’t the workstation itself… but the process behind it?

In this episode of Ergonomically Speaking…, Niamh explores how DSE systems rarely fail dramatically. Instead, they often drift slowly over time as organisations grow, ways of working evolve and responsibilities become less clear.

From repeated assessment findings to unclear ownership, reactive approaches and outdated processes struggling to keep pace with hybrid working, this episode looks at the subtle signs that a DSE process may no longer be working as effectively as it once did — even if everything still appears compliant on the surface.

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