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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-display-screen-equipment-regulations-1992/schedule/paragraph-wrapper4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2792",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992",
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  "text": "4.Interface between computer and operator/user\nIn designing, selecting, commissioning and modifying software, and in designing tasks using display screen equipment, the employer shall take into account the following principles:\n(a)software must be suitable for the task;\n(b)software must be easy to use and, where appropriate, adaptable to the level of knowledge or experience of the operator or user; no quantitative or qualitative checking facility may be used without the knowledge of the operators or users;\n(c)systems must provide feedback to operators or users on the performance of those systems;\n(d)systems must display information in a format and at a pace which are adapted to operators or users;\n(e)the principles of software ergonomics must be applied, in particular to human data processing.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:12:20.415783+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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