The thing about notice boards is that they must be kept fresh. They need to be renewed at least once a month ideally once a week. Three are few things more depressing that a notice board telling people of a course that was run 6 months ago!
Apart from the HSE poster and a copy of the policy statement you can include:
• Information on your training initiatives, what course are being run that month
• A graph or chart showing some basic stats eg. How days since a time lost accident, there has to be some positive messages of encouragement-the notice board should. on the whole, be upbeat
• A theme for that month, WAH, COSHH or PPE-pictures, posters etc for that
• Announcement of meetings; open forum rather than the minutes of the last H&S committee
• Recruitment drives for safety reps, first aiders, H&S champions
Avoid being too wordy- you are lucky if someone will spend 20 seconds looking at the notice board so avoid just sticking reports up.
Use pictures with lots of colour to attract people’s attention, for at least those 20 seconds.
You target is not just the staff but the management who often like H&S to have a level of visibility in the organisation: it makes them feel better
Keeping a good notice board is quite a job and it might not be the best way to keep in touch with you staff, so before you embark on it make sure you can do right. If you don’t have the resources to do it you will find that the board soon looks tired and boring. Someone will notice that and the message will come out that “H&S don’t care”. Of course you do care but it is difficult to prioritise the notice board when you busy doing other urgent stuff.

Thanks both for the suggestions.

It is a really good point about keeping it up to date. My problem is that our locations (each which has a board) are located nationally across England, Scotland and Wales so I am reliant on others to update.

That's a good idea Chris.

Thanks

I used some red arrows (no not those that fly!) with words like "you probably haven't read this--yet!" and " I bet you didn't know this" written across them and pointing to the area that I wanted people to focus on.

Seemed to work well judging by some of the alternative arrows that were sometimes posted between my visits :-)

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