Hi all, I'm looking for some inspiration. I want to develop a health and safety information board for our various facilities. I want the boards to concentrate on incidents/ near misses and possibly the person responsible for corrective/preventative action. There are two main objectives/reasons 1. Managers do not 'own' health and safety at the moment, I do. They see it as my responsibility and this must change if we are to tackle our deep-seated problems. 2. We don't communicate incidents stats to departments, something which we really should be doing. I will be tasking Managers of each department with updating the accident stats/ info on the board each week/month (undecided yet). I was hoping some of the posters on this forum may have some examples of something similar in their workplace..........I need some inspiration to get my creative side going. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

HI Gunner, I agree and this is also being implemented........however, I still need a get this notice board up and running. It will be department managers personal responsibility to update the boards which will ensure a greater awareness of safety stats/info relating to their department. Well, thats the plan anyway. Every little helps.

Jonty's idea is good and I have used this in the past. Another good way to get buy in is to set the organisations KPI's, start and PUBLISH a league table. You can get collate a lot of this information from internal audits. Nature of the beast with managers is they like to be top. Takes time but I'm sure you'll get there. Good luck. Clive

If money is not too much of an issue you could look at electronic media notice boards? I was shown a demo a few months ago and was very impressed. You could, for example show training DVD's on it or even on half the screen, news feeds, general TV, your Safety Warnings, a calendar with a countdown of days since last LTI and basically most things you currently have stored on your computer. If you had a few Sites they could be linked so the person at HO could control the content of them all and you could also have a "half and half" screen display - half controlled by HO and half by the Site or facility. I don't think they are cheap - about £1600 each inc the 42" flat screen. As I said I was pretty impressed and my boss is thinking twice now after having initially dismissed the idea of them.

One idea our people have is a ‘Comms Cell’. Basically this is a notice board with the sort of information your are talking about- incident stats jobs closed etc from a particular department. They are organised to present a dashboard. Then you have a weekly short meeting to look at what is on the board and to make sure everybody is happy with what’s on the board. By short I mean 10 minutes, no note taking etc just a quick discussion about what is going down. This is more useful than a dead notice board which people will eventually get use to and start to ignore.

Hi, you seem to be insistent on a notice board, which may not have the reaction wished for as they do become part of the scenery as already alluded. As an alternative have you thought about a simple "newsletter" or flyer type of thing out to all the areas who should take an interest, in which you could include whatever you wish, including photos from around site even interviews with key players...like directors?? etc. If provided to customers through email, you should be able to obtain read receipts, or if you have an intranet post it on there and send out a link to it maybe with a hit counter. With time you could encourage ownership with a league table if that is your wish, or other ideas that may come round.