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Maintaining Interest in Safety hazards not covered by posters available from outside sources Even the smallest company can make an occasional special poster inexpensively, using colored paper, crayons, or felt marking pens, to call attention to a special hazard, to commemorate the win ning of a safety award, or to point up a problem not likely to be covered by a commercial poster See Chapter 10, "Audio-Visual Media," for details Effective posters can be made using pho tographs of local conditions or accidents, even if the situations must be posed A common type of homemade poster is the "testimonial" showing a photo ofan employee and a close-up of his damaged safety glasses or safety shoes, with a brief statement ex plaining how this equipment protected him Homemade posters on new processes, new guards, or new rules personalize the safety program and augment even the best selection of commercial posters Changing and mounting posters No specific rule can be given for the fre quency of changing posters because of vary ing definitions of the term "poster " Some types of posters may well be mounted permanently For example, a poster on artificial respiration can be kept in the firstaid room, or one on the use of a certain kind of fire extinguisher can be posted near it Most companies change general interest posters at definite intervals, usually weekly, perhaps rotating them from one area to another or filing them and then reusing them after a year or so The type of posters displayed should be varied Consecutive posting of several in fection posters, for instance, or of machinery posters is not desirable unless a special campaign is being conducted To secure proper balance, it is better to use an eye poster, then a machinery poster, next an infection poster, and so on For maximum effectiveness, posters not only must be selected carefully and changed on a definite schedule, but also displayed attractively m well-lighted locations where they will be seen by the greatest number of people They should be placed on safety bulletin boards, near time clocks, m cafe terias, and at points of special hazard, such as paint storage rooms, rubbish cans, hazardous Fig 8-15 --Combined poster display and literature rack machinery, or dangerous intersections Bulletin boards Bulletin boards should permit convenient change of posters and should be placed where employees can see them when they are mo mentarily at leisure, near drinking fountains, for example They should be centered at eye level, about 63 in from the floor They should be in a well lighted place, especially lighted if possible A good size for a bulletin board is about 22 m wide by 30 in long Boards should be attractively painted and glass-covered One board at a location in the work place is usually desirable, but in lunch rooms or locker rooms several panels mav be used effectively Flashing lights sometimes desirable in nonproducing areas, are likely to be objectionable in work places A bulletin board should be used for only one display at a time, but need not carry safety posters exclusively Any program of mutual interest to company and employees may legitimately use the bulletin boards In fact. 190