Using safety and health posters

What are some of the ways in which you are educating your employees and helping them to focus on safety? When it comes to OSHA and employee safety, you can never be too careful. It is important to understand all of the factors that are part of the OSHA standards so that you can ensure you are in compliance. One of the things that OSHA asks is that you post safety and health posters around. This will help to educate your employees and to warn them of hazards that exist in the building and certain safety and health risks that they could be exposed to.

There are numerous signs and things that you need to display. Some of them are from OSHA while others are from the Department of Labor and then you also have state signs that need to be posted. Visit their websites in order to find the signs that you need to order or print off and have them clearly posted in the building for your employees to see.

Many businesses will not only just post the signage that is required by OSHA and the government but they take it a step further and they will find a number of signs that correspond to their industry and they will post these signs as well. This is a great way to focus on educating your staff and to make sure you are doing all that you can in order to have your business running effectively. Some companies will promote health related issues in places that employees tend to frequent like the breakroom and also restrooms. You want them to be visible and to get noticed often.

A great way to make sure people are reading and seeing these posters is by having a presentation to announce the posters to everyone. You want them to all see that you have something to say and it is important that they get to know the signage and what is expected from them. A presentation is a great way to announce that there is a new sign that needs to be give attention in the building.

Most of the required posters are generic and tend to be boring. Because of this most companies just put them in a corner of the breakroom or somewhere to say they are posted but they aren't really given a lot of attention or focus. The generic information does need to be pointed out to your staff and they need to know that there is important information on these posters. Hold a presentation on safety and employee wellbeing in order to talk about these important signs and issues as it is a great way to bring attention to some important posters in the office.

How do you know when it is time to start talking about health and safety again? A good time to do this is when you notice injuries are occurring. If you see there is an issue you need to talk to your employees and to get a poster up that is focused on this issue. This will raise awareness around it and it will be able to help your employees know how to prevent injuries and accidents from arising.

Hold training seminars that reinforce what the posters are saying. This is another great way in which you can educate your employees as they are able to see the posters and to know how it corresponds to their job and all the safety training that they just had. Handouts will also be able to help you really drive the point home and to get people to pay attention.