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#1 Posted : 25 October 2007 16:02:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Dunn
I have recently started working within a new company and have been given the task of revamping the companys health and safety notice board.
I would like some ideas please in how to get the best use out of a notice board for health and safety from a promotional and involving all employees perspective.

Thanks
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#2 Posted : 25 October 2007 16:15:00(UTC)
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Posted By Pete Longworth
How much money have you got to spend?
At my last company we had a similar project and we came up with a idea of putting a flat screen monitor in the board linked to a pc where we could run various looping powerpoints, short DVDs etc. The company were very keen until the day they shut the factory down, but we costed it out and reckoned we could do it for about 2K.
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#3 Posted : 25 October 2007 16:21:00(UTC)
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Posted By GARRY WIZZ
I am of the following opinion for notice boards.

Put very little on them.
What ever it is, make it big,bold,dynamic
Change it regular.

I find that people do have a look and read using this.

Currently doing a trial, put the dreamteam scores in the corner, seem to be getting more hits and comments

Garry
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#4 Posted : 25 October 2007 16:59:00(UTC)
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Posted By Brian Welch
John,


Try splitting it in to 2 notice boards;

Main safety board would have your H&S and company statutory notice I.e

H&S Law Poster
Certificate of Employers Liability Insurance
MD Statements on Safety
Accident Reporting Procedures
Drugs & Alcohol policy
First Aid General Arrangements
COSHH arrangements

etc etc

The second would be a less formal but have relevant and useful information

Accident Stats
Latest Safety Instructions
Safety Committee Minutes
Safety Concerns

etc etc

also, maybe supplement these with a poster campaign?

Brian
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#5 Posted : 25 October 2007 17:13:00(UTC)
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Posted By Pete48
How about a successful practice from the past? Not my idea originally I have to say but one that I "borrowed" and has worked in many places since.
Give a huge section, that is all the space left after the statutory stuff, over to different groups of employees on rotation each week/month. Get them to come up with the content. Support their ideas if you need to but you will find that people are very inventive.
Safety dept would, of course, be one of those groups so they get their turn along with everyone else.
In some places they have competitions voted by employees on the best safety notice board presentation. Points means prizes for the winning group.
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#6 Posted : 25 October 2007 18:18:00(UTC)
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Posted By Chris Ivan
tenuos link, but why not ask the IT manager if he can use a Health and Safety message, changed weekly/monthly, as the official company screensaver for all employees.

might be a good way in an office environment to get the message across

cheers
chris
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