The Labor Department’s workplace posters

It is DTRH’s posters page: the official site where the Department makes available for download the workplace posters it publishes, in high-resolution PDF files and in JPG.

It serves any employer wanting its posters current and any employee wanting to read, in their own language and unmediated, what the posters that should be at their workplace say. The download is open: there is no registration or requirement to get them.

• For the PR OSHA poster: reproducing it at a minimum size of 8½" x 14", which is what the page flags as a regulatory requirement.Verified against the official source

• The files DTRH publishes: each poster comes in high-resolution PDF and most also in JPG, with sizes ranging from a few hundred kilobytes to 16 MB.

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   Step 1: The six rights-and-programmes posters

   These are the ones most people recognise from a lunchroom wall: SINOT, the temporary non-occupational disability insurance; PR OSHA, on workplace safety and health; Anti-discrimination; Labor Standards; Labor Standards on Social Security; and the Working Woman’s Bill of Rights. Each downloads as a high-resolution PDF, and all but a few also as JPG.

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   Step 2: The size of the PR OSHA poster

   It is the only rule the page publishes, and it comes with its own note: "By regulation, this poster must be reproduced at a minimum size of 8 ½" x 14"." If you are printing it, print it on legal or larger; a letter-size copy falls short per that note.

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   Step 3: The six sign-language posters

   The page’s least-known and most useful part: DTRH publishes sign-language posters for basic signs, for COVID, for health emergencies, for hurricanes, for earthquakes and for tsunamis. They are small PDFs, between 606 kilobytes and 1.3 MB, meant to be kept at hand where communicating with a deaf person in an emergency may be needed.

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   Step 4: Download them from the official site, not a third party

   DTRH’s page is the source and the download is free. It is worth getting them there rather than from a resold copy: posters get updated and an old version circulating online may carry information that no longer applies. Also note the file sizes — there are PDFs of up to 16 MB — if you will print them at a shop.

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   Step 5: What the page does not answer

   And it is the most-asked part, so here it is plainly: the page is a download list, not a regulation. It does not say which posters are mandatory for which kind of employer, where they must be displayed, in what language, or what fine not having them carries. If you need that answer — for an inspection, say — ask the Department of Labor and Human Resources directly, at (787) 754-5353. This guide does not invent it for you.

On the Department of Labor and Human Resources’ posters page, trabajo.pr.gov. The main office is at the Prudencio Rivera Martínez Building, 505 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Hato Rey, PR 00918, postal address PO Box 195540, San Juan, PR 00919-5540, telephone (787) 754-5353.

• Printing the PR OSHA poster on letter size, when the note requires 8½" x 14" minimum.
• Downloading the posters from a third-party site instead of DTRH’s portal, risking an outdated version.
• Assuming the list says which are mandatory: it is a download page, not a regulation.
• Forgetting the sign-language posters, among the most useful in an emergency and known by almost nobody.
• Thinking you must pay or register: the download is open and free.

These are the government pages this guide is based on.

• Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos (DTRH)

  Departamento del Trabajo

  www.trabajo.pr.gov

• Department of Labor and Human Resources — portal

  dtrh

  www.trabajo.pr.gov