# Safety notice and shift handover boards Running shift handover boards, safety notices, days-since counters and area instructions on screens, typed at the end of a shift from a phone and visible across a floor. Source: https://channelos.tv/use-cases/safety-and-shift-boards ## What runs it ChannelOS plays as a web page in the browser the screen already has: Android TV, Google TV, webOS, Fire TV, a Chromebox, or a laptop in kiosk mode on the HDMI port. There is also a native Android TV app, downloaded as an APK from channelos.tv rather than from Google Play. There is no media player box to buy and no per-device licence. ## What goes on the screen - **What the next shift is walking into.** What ran, what stopped, what is still open. A notice per line with who owns it, typed on a phone rather than chalked on a board. - **Safety notices that are dated.** The current rule, not the one printed two years ago. Changing it is an edit, so it actually gets changed when the rule does. - **Readable the length of the floor.** Type set at a size a whiteboard cannot reach, which is the whole reason the notice was being repeated verbally. - **Still right at three in the morning.** The board runs on a channel's own clock, so an unattended night shift sees the same board as the day, without anybody being there to set it. ## When ChannelOS is the wrong answer ChannelOS is not a safety or compliance system. It keeps no audit trail of what a board said on a given day, has no acknowledgement or sign-off, no incident reporting and no integration with an EHS or permit-to-work platform, and nothing on a screen can evidence that a particular worker read a particular instruction. It is also not an emergency alerting system: it has no connection to fire or alarm systems and must never be the only way a warning reaches people. Where a regulator expects evidence, use the system that produces it and treat the screen as the readable copy. ## Questions ### What is a shift handover board on a screen? It is the handover information that usually lives on a whiteboard, run instead as an editable board on a screen: what ran, what stopped, what the next shift is walking into, with a line per item and who owns it. Because it is a show rather than a whiteboard it can be typed on a phone at the end of a shift, set at a size that reads across the floor, and it is not wiped by whoever needs the space. ### Can it prove that a worker read a safety notice? No. There is no acknowledgement, no sign-off, no per-person tracking and no audit trail of what a board showed on a given date, so nothing in ChannelOS can evidence that an instruction was read. Where a regulator or an insurer expects that evidence, it has to come from an EHS or training system and the screen is the readable copy beside it. ### Can it be used for emergency alerts? Not as the alerting mechanism. ChannelOS has no integration with fire panels, alarm systems or mass notification platforms, and a screen depends on a network and a working display, so it must never be the only way a warning reaches people. Broadcast controls can put a message on every screen at once, which is useful as a supplement to a real alerting system, never as a replacement for one. ### Who types the handover, and from what? Whoever is handing over, from a phone. The editor has a proper phone build rather than a squeezed desktop one, and the notice board tool has a shift handover preset, so the board is a few lines typed into a known shape rather than a design job. It reaches the floor's screens in seconds because the screen derives what it shows from the schedule in real time. ### Will the board still be correct overnight with nobody there? Yes. The board sits on a channel with its own daily and weekly timeline and the screen follows that clock, so a night shift sees whatever the schedule says is on at that hour. A screen that loses the network keeps playing what it has rather than going blank, and catches up when it reconnects. ### What does a floor screen cost to run? The first screen is free forever and further screens are billed per screen per month at the rates on the pricing page. Free screens carry a ChannelOS banner that opens into a full slide roughly every two minutes, which on an internal staff-side board some sites accept and others pay to remove. ## Related - [Notice board maker](https://channelos.tv/tools/digital-notice-board-maker): Five presets including a shift handover board. Free, no account, download the PNG. - [Manufacturing signage](https://channelos.tv/industries/manufacturing): Line boards, safety notices and the screens over the floor. - [Digital signage for warehouses](https://channelos.tv/digital-signage-for-warehouses): Dispatch boards and the screens in a goods-in bay. - [Internal communications](https://channelos.tv/use-cases/internal-communications): Reaching the staff without a desk, and what a screen cannot prove.