Is your office complying with the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations (HSIER) directive to display the approved poster? see the original article at: http://www.theofficesuppliessupermarket.com/articles/Is-the-health-and-safety-poster-in-your-workplace-up-to-date

1. Is the Health & Safety Poster
in your workplace up to date?

2. No. Wake up!! Please. I appreciate the mere mention
of Health & Safety could be enough to cure even the
most hardened insomniac, but this stuff is kinda
important. It’s the law and, as an employer, the
implications of not adhering to Health & Safety law are
huge. So here’s the rub….
Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety
Information for Employees Regulations (HSIER) to
display the approved poster in a prominent position in
each workplace or to provide each worker with a copy
of the approved leaflet that outlines British health and
safety law.

3. The 2009 poster replaces the version which was published in April
1999.
You might recall the 1999 version. It looked like this…
It was wordy. And dull. Had a very small
typeface and really didn’t encourage
employees to read it. So the lovely people
at the Health & Safety Executive decided
that, on the basis it was important that
people read what was contained in the
posters, they’d make them a little bit more
visually appealing and user friendly.

4. The information contained is pretty much the same. There are a
few minor changes. Unlike the 1999 poster and leaflet, the
2009 poster and leaflet do not require the employer to provide
further information in writing, either on the poster or with the
leaflet, giving workers the name and address of the enforcing
authority and Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS).
Instead, workers are advised to go to HSE's website to find
relevant addresses. A sign of the times!

5. The 2009 poster does still have optional boxes where details of
any worker health and safety representatives and other health
and safety contacts can be added. It is not a legal requirement
to include this information but it may be helpful to workers.
But really, it’s just about changing the format to make it more
engaging and therefore more likely to be read.

6. See? Much better?

7. So if this was changed in 2009, what’s the point in telling you
about it now? Well, the HSE very kindly allowed employers a 5
year grace period to get rid of the 1999 posters and up date
them with the 2009 version.
The Carol Vorderman types amongst you will realise that that
brings us to 2014. Yup. That’ll be about now. In fact,
employers that don’t have the new posters in place by 6th April
2014 (i.e. Over two months ago) are now breaking the law and
could face action from the HSE.
Don’t say you haven’t been warned!

8. Buy your new style poster (or inform your employer of the
requirement to do it) TODAY, if you haven’t already got them.

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