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Posted By LAAW
I have been asked to create a health and safety newsletter to send out to our employees/Supervisors/ Managers. I am trying to get some ideas. Can anyone advise on suitable web sites or perhaps provide a sample of a health and safety news letter available. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Posted By Joe Doc
It may be too late for you but in my own organisation we decided against a stand alone H&S newsletter as it is thought not many folk (ouside fellow anoraks) would read it.
We are fortunate to have an general in-house staff magazine produced quarterly which we have a two page input to in which we cover information on health, safety and wellbeing.
My only advice would be to keep all articles, even the serious issues as light hearted as possible and relevant to your operations, if someone wants the regs give them an appropriate link.
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Posted By Ron Hunter
what's your Industry? There are (I think) some good examples on this site - look at (e.g.) the Construction newsletter under the Construction Specialist Group pages. Above all, it has to be relevant and 'light' pictures always help (and then the publication costs go through the roof and all of a sudden management no longer think it's such a good idea!).
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Posted By garyh
The challenge is to make something like this relevant and interesting.
I would advise that you absolutely AVOID having a publication intelligible to [reference removed] only. Get contributions from all areas of the organisation. Get people who have had accidents or near misses (including at home) to talk about the effect on them etc.
Try interviewing people in a short sharp spot - it could be anybody, but throw in the odd snippet involving the MD etc.
I have been in roles where I had to produce a weekly newsletter .......... and a DAILY newsletter in shutdowns!
The best safety communication frequency I believe is monthly or quarterly - you have more time to edit it. I used to lead my quarterly bulletin with a front page disaster and then draw out "how is this relevant to us", for instance, Piper Alpha, Concorde crash etc.
I used to add a quiz / crossowrd bit with a prize. This was easily the most popular part.
In short, your model should be the way succesful magazines are laid out. As an editor though you have to have some skill and control the quality - don't give Manager X a blank half page unless you reserve editorial control! (No one wants to read half a page on the Blah blah regs 1234 unless it is really well written and relevant).
Best of luck.
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Posted By Merv Newman
I know a lot of organisations who produce internal newsletters.
For a large site there will be weekly newsletters plus monthlies and quarterlies which cover all the news, including safety, quality, environment, sales, major clients etc.
Smaller sites often have a weekly "production" newsletter and a quarterly general communication.
"weeklies" are often photocopies. Quarterlies are usually 4-colour printed.
Photos are important. Employees love to see their photo in the newsletter. When an individual is tied by an article and a photo to a specific H&S subject then they become the local "hero" albeit for a short time unless reinforced.
Include the most recent stats. Either statistics or accident numbers (which are often more understandable for employees) and compare with previous results.
The "editorial" is given to senior managers in rotation (with photo) either to talk about their department's successes in improving safety or their plans for the future.
Are you planning two sides or four ? Can you get/need some advice on layout, colours, type-faces and so on ?
I can supply some examples (B+W fax) if you would like to send me an e-mail with your fax number.
Merv
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Posted By Julie
Hiya LAAW,
If you give me your email adress I will send you copies of ones we have done. We bring one for environment and one for H&S to our 2 monthly meetings and they are then posted on the noticeboards.
Regards
Julie
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Posted By LAAW
Thanks Julie I have sent you an e-mail. I would also like to thank all who responded this helped me out.
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Posted By Tony Brunskill
Hi,
Drop me an email and I will send you examples of the sort of stuff we do.
Tony
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Posted By LAAW
Thanks for all responses
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