Ensure that your organisation is meeting your legal responsibility by providing employee training to reduce risks and improve health and well-being, as outlined by the HSE requirements for employees who are working from home.

Did you know that if you employ more than 5 people you are legally responsible for the health and wellbeing of your staff - even while they're working from home? And even if it is temporary.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has outlined three areas of risk for people working from home:

Lone working without supervision
Working with display screen equipment (DSE)
Stress and mental health

Do you know the safety and well-being of your home workers?

Alarming statistics

OF HOME WORKERS ARE NOW EXPERIENCING INCREASED NECK PAIN. WITH 56% SHOULDER & 55% BACK PAIN SINCE COVID-19.

OF HOME WORKERS ARE WORKING FROM THEIR SOFAS INSTEAD PROPER WORKSTATIONS.

ARE EXPERIENCING INCREASED SYMPTOMS OF FATIGUE, WITH 50% NOT HAPPY WITH THEIR WORK/LIFE BALANCE.

Explore our WFH training to reduce injury, improve well-being and help ensure compliance.

Provide the training employees need to meet compliance.

Training

In all three areas of risk outlined by the Health & Safety Executive to ensure compliance.

Toolkit

A PDF booklet to help your employees reduce stress, strain and risk of injury whilst using display screen equipment. Includes specific exercises.

Assessments

Virtual home workstation risk assessments, by an expert assessor with a physio background. Unique postural assessment with personalised exercises. Report provided to organisation.

Certificate

Certification to confirm employee's completion of each training for your compliance records.

Virtual Home Workstation Assessments

Our virtual home workstation assessments are unique. In addition to carrying out a full audit and assessment, in having a physio background, we provide individual, customised postural exercises to help reduce pain and risk of injuries.

A report will be provided after the assessment that highlights areas of risks and actions that the employer is required to take to ensure they are compliant.

Workstation assessments are critical to ensure employees are reducing and preventing the risk of pain and injury.

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Beware: Hidden risks of staff WFH

Scotsman article with Positive Performance MD, Wendy Chalmers Mill discussing risk of injury for WFH staff.

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Lockdown fuels demand for WFH staff advice

The Herald article featuring Positive Performance expert Wendy Chalmers Mill.

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Firms face 'avalanche' of home-work claims

In this Times article Wendy Chalmers Mill talks about organisations failure to conduct proper home workstation assessments

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WFH injuries: What employers need to know

BBC Radio Scotland interview with Kay Adams and Wendy Chalmers Mill of Positive Performance.

New Covid Working From Home Training Courses

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UK & International Clients

Managing Director, Lead Trainer for Positive Performance

For 26 years, Wendy worked in the House of Commons setting up and providing their health and well-being programme, specifically related to working with display screen equipment.

She is recognised as one of the UK experts in this field, and has been frequently interviewed on TV and radio, and is a TedX speaker.

As an ergonomics specialist and physiotherapist with over 30 years of experience, Wendy has worked with a wide range of organisations, large and small. Through her innovative training she has helped improve health, safety and well-being, as well as resilience and communications.

Due to Covid-19, Wendy has created a specific training programme to help ensure the safety and well-being of people working from home.

TESTIMONIALS

What organisations say about us

Bernadette Doyle

HR Director - Pinar Set

Your determination to make the training successful convinced me of the value in investing in a high quality training provider.

Karen Saunders

Head of Customer Services - House of Commons

Wendy provides a higher level of experience and has oodles of knowledge covering health and wellness. My colleagues much looked forward to her help and advice on their posture and how they were sitting at desks etc.

Alyssa Reid

Co-Founder- The Prebiotic Company

Having the expertise and training regarding posture and proper work station set-up has made a massive difference in our pain levels and ability to work effectively. Thank you, Wendy!

Are you HSE compliant?

Ensure your organisation met your compliance requirements by properly training your staff.

Reduce the risk of legal action in case your employees experience an injury whilst working from home.

Frequently asked questions

What training do employees who work from home need?

To ensure compliance is met, employees require training on safe home working practices, set by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This training is for display screen equipment, lone working, stress and mental health.

People working from home also require home workstation assessments, to help reduce risk of pain and injury.

What unique training does Positive Performance offer?

We offer expert-led live, virtual workshops, eTraining and virtual home workstation assessments to meet HSE requirements for compliance:

1. Working with display screen equipment at home
2. Stress and mental health
3. Lone workers without supervision
4. Virtual home workstation assessments

Positive Performance has put together a comprehensive training programme to offset the risks associated from working from home. Our programme is designed to identify areas of concern, reduce pain and stress, build resilience and enhance leadership and ongoing business growth through these turbulent times.

How does the training work?

We have two options available:

1. Virtual, live interactive training through our platform on Zoom (approximately 2.5 hours)
2. Pre-recorded training enabling people to take the training at a time that suits them best (approximately 1 hour)

The programme is divided into three easy-to-digest workshops as an all-inclusive series to offset the concerns outlined by the HSE, and to help ensure organisations are meeting their compliance requirements.

We do offer a discounted package for all 3 training workshops, plus virtual home workstation assessments. (All three workshops plus the assessment are what is required by the HSE to meet compliance).

5 common misconceptions employers have about WFH staff

It's temporary - training and assessments aren't required (False)
Providing infographics and offering support meets compliance (False)
Sitting comfortably means no pain or injury (False)
Laptops are compliant and legal to won on full time at home (False- proper workstation set up is required to reduce injury and pain)

75% of employers don't know that they need to provide specific training and assessments for their WFH staff to ensure they are legall compliant.

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Who we are

Positive Performance provides corporate workshops and e-Learning courses for organisations, professionals and aspiring individuals to help ensure employee's health and wellbeing, reduce risk and improve performance.

WFH Employee Training:
Reduce risk of injury. Meet compliance requirements.

Did you know...?
Employers have a legal duty of care for their home workers

Unless you have provided the correct WFH training and full home workstation risk assessment of the working conditions of each employee, your business could be taken to court if any suffer a work-related injury.

Alarming statistics

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As an employer, it is your legal responsibility to ensure the health and wellbeing of your staff.

Explore our WFH training to reduce injury, improve well-being and help ensure compliance.