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Does anyone have any examples of a 'Safety Card' that they wouldn't mind sharing with me please (eg typically a credit-card sized card given to employees that reflects relevant safety messages) that they have implemented and has been particularly sucessful?
Thanks!
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If you go to the J.I.B. site and look up ECS card you should find all you need. Also the cscs card
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I think Zimmy is talking about a different kind of card :-)
I have seen the kind of card that has a corporate safety message on it and that employees are supposed to carry around to remind themselves of their safety responsibilities. I don't see how such a thing could possibly ever be "successful". They are normally met with ridicule.
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Ops, quite correct Kate (Red face yet again!!!!)
I'll not be going down that road for the same reason as our Kate. Life is hard enough in the world of H&S without adding to our misery :-)
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In the late 1980s when I joined the OH&S team of my former employer, a local authority, it had a number of laminated pocket-sized cards, mainly for issue to manual employees, with brief advice about topics such as electrical safety, discarded needles and stepladder safety. However, through various means, including chats with safety reps, it became evident to us that few if any employees bothered to carry or even look at the cards. Therefore, in order to save money and use it in more effective ways, we quietly abandoned the cards. The fact that nobody ever subsequently asked about the cards seemed to confirm that nobody used them.
Unless cards contains information which will undoubtedly be of interest/use to those who receive them, it's best to avoid spending any time and money producing and issuing them.
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Where it lists useful reference material, I think they are useful, if it's just a general pep-talk reminder message, I think it's a waste of effort.
Useful example is that when I worked for a rail contractor they issued a credit-card sized card that was green one side and listed all the things that must be covered in a green zone briefing and red the other side, which listed all the things in a red zone briefing. That was useful - both for the person delivering the briefing to check they'd covered everything, and for the recipients to check down and see they'd been given everything they were supposed to have.
I also have a laminated card (slightly larger than credit card) that lists the steps for test when donning positive pressure full breathing apparatus, which I find useful because I don't use BA often enough to feel confident I've remembered all the steps. Actually I think I do know it, but I find a checklist to tell me that I've got it right useful.
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Bp used to have one called take 5 for safety.
Fill in some nonsense, your supervisor checks it at some point during the day, you carry on regardless
Copied many times over and over
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There are exceptions. Cards serving a specific purpose - usually those that provide the correct response and contact details should things go wrong (e.g. needle-stick, asbestos release) are worthwhile.
The HSE used to do a decent pocket card for leptospirosis.
When the employee can relate the information as directly relevant to a risk that might affect him, then he's likely to keep it - even badger you for a replacement if he loses it.
As for printing and distributing cards with generic safety messages - forget it. You'll find most of them end up in the bin or the canteen floor.
I do recall once visiting a Depot canteen and seeing copies of a safety flyer that had been issued several months ago still showing on most of the tables - until I realised the guys were using the blank reverse side to record their cribbage scores!
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Some of the posts here have reminded me that people have sometimes shown me bits of paper they keep in their wallet or pocket with information to refer to in an emergency - one example was for action after a needlestick injury and another was the basic action plan for someone with specific emergency responsibilities.
Anything that someone has taken the trouble to handwrite for themselves in this way is probably good value. But they tend to be specific to their role, not things that everyone would benefit from.
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Yes have a good one which works, or did for me anyway. PM me details.
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Depending on the amount of information you may want to provide, could it be put on something they are more likely to want. The side of a pen, front of a diary or mug (the one you put coffee in, not a tattoo on their face), you could let your imagination run wild.
Periodically you could issues new ones with new messages. You never know, subliminal messages on a mug may make it into their heads.
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Chris42 makes some interesting positive points at #11. As a development of them, does anyone know of any attention-grabbing OS&H messages on useful and/or wacky (unusual/bizarre) items they've either heard about or seen? Also, can anyone suggest any novel messages and/or items?
Slightly off-topic and regarding one of my pet-hates, I wish smartphone display screens would incorporate a standard message "look where you're going"! Goodness knows whether it would have any effect on users who persist in gawping at their phones while walking about and seem oblivious of the risk of colliding with people, fixtures and vehicles, etc. Also, though I could suggest that the message is a covert one (i.e. displayed intermittently for very short non-discernible durations), I guess that it might be illegal in the same way that subliminal messaging on television screens is apparently illegal.
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Payslip inserts (where paypacket methods still exist) might work in some instances.
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