Safety signage in the workplace is mandatory, but running something off on the copier isn’t going to do it. To ensure compliance with Health & Safety NZ requirements, you need properly designed permanent signs. We can help with that.

Following the Pike River mine incident in 2010, the Health and Safety in Employment Act has had a major overhaul and update. The updated Act, which came into effect in April 2016, aims to reduce New Zealand’s workplace injury and death rate by 25% before 2020.
The Act focuses on controllable factors, based on business risk and size. It’s not just about hazard spotting, it’s about reasonable actions that reduce workplace harm.
This means you need effective health and safety signs in and around your workplace. Your employees and visitors have to be made aware of risks, and nothing does that better than large format multi-message boards, also known as hazard board signs.
What’s a multi-message board?
Positioned near entrances and in communal areas, including visitor reception, multi-message boards let people know about all the major hazards on your site. We produce them on our large format latex press, which has light-fast ink to ensure messaging won’t fade. Safety signage can be printed onto vinyl or directly onto a rigid substrate, such as aluminium composite.
We can go a step further and arrange artwork for your multi-message board with our in-house design resource Soar Studio. Your company branding can be part of the design.
When it comes to H & S compliance, message boards aren’t the only thing we can help you with. We also print:
Wayfinding signage and directory boards. Help people to find their way safely around your site, so they’ll be less likely to end up in hazardous areas.
Large format posters. Wherever your people gather, you have a chance to make them aware of health and safety requirements. Posters are great for this task. They can be put up in lunch rooms, open plan areas and hallways.
Manuals. Capture all the risks, policies and procedures in an easy-to-update loose-leaf manual. You’ll need copies for every employee.
Training materials. You need to educate your people about safe practices. Fact sheets and work sheets can make training more effective.
Hazard stickers. Bright warning stickers to alert people about dangers in the workplace.
For advice about H & S print requirements, email Peter Lloyd at Soar peter@soarprint.co.nz
Read another blog about large format printing.