UK Health & Safety Law Poster What you need to know

You have a legal requirement to display this statutory notice. The Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989 made it a legal requirement for all employers to display a Health and Safety Law Poster. If your Health & Safety Law Posters are an old version then you should have changed them before 5th April 2014.

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) first introduced the Health & Safety Law Poster and leaflet in 1999. Under the Health and Safety information for Employees Regulations (HSIER) all employers (even if they only employ 1 other person) are required to either display the poster in a prominent location on all business premises or provide each employee with the leaflet.

In 2009, the HSE introduced an updated, simpler version of the Health & Safety Law Poster. In order to minimise the impact on organisations the HSE provided a five year transition period meaning that employers had until 5th April 2014 to replace the poster or leaflets with the new version. If you are still displaying an old version, you must replace it.