Good afternoon, HSE's Infoline, Andrew speaking, how can I help?
Hello my name's Rachel Jones, I'm here to answer all of your health and safety questions.
So just behind us here is one of these HSE health and safety law posters that I always remember seeing when I had Saturday jobs. Has this changed?
There is a new law poster that the HSE's produced basically so it's more eye catching and it still provides basic essential information for employees. The new law poster update the current poster. It needs to be replaced by 5 April 2014 so there is a transition period. There's been a few scams going around at the moment as well where companies are trying to sell the new law poster but basically saying it's got to be done now.
Oh right.
So we've had a lot of calls on this but as I said it's important that people know that there is that transition period for them to actually get that so they can phase it in.
So what's changed?
The new poster has perhaps some pictures. It's a bit more cutting edge, up-to-date. It's got some more points on there and numbers for employees. It gives them a bit more information. It's still got the boxes on there so they've got basic information about who to contact if they need to and the employer can still put that information on but it's not as old fashioned if you'd like it's.
Yeah. Does look much more modern but funnily enough I've only really just clocked it because I was so busy looking at the old one just because I don't know there's something nostalgic about it.
Yeah. I mean you do obviously you walk around shops to buy a drink and they're everywhere because they need to be in a prominent place.
It looks readable.
The new one it, it is easier reading and it's more to the point to be honest so it is a very good job there.
You've, we've got these new posters then. Are we going to see these everywhere, do do employers have to put them up?
Well if employers got peripatetic workers or perhaps workers that just would prefer a pocket card style information document they can actually use the, the leaflet which has been obviously revamped in line with the new poster so the employer hasn't got to display this. They can provide them with the pocket card. Alternatively as long as the employer can actually provide it electronically that's another version that they can prove that all employees can access it.
Uhh hmm.
Employers can do it that way as well now which is a new aspect to the health and safety information for employees.
