Toolbox Talks

What’s Wrong With This Photo

Hazard Identification

What’s Wrong With This Photo – Spot the Hazards Each issue of WorkSafe™ Magazine includes a safety photo that has been staged to show a number of hazards or potentially dangerous work practices. The online version is highly interactive and includes ability to place pins and comments onto the photo and print the results. Could [...]

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Safety Conversation Essentials – 20 Tips

Harmonisation

Safety Conversation Essentials – 20 Tips Another brilliant guest article by Dr Robert Long from www.humandymensions.com If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE In our preoccupation with harmonization, systems and the new WHS Act I trust we don’t lose sight of the most powerful instrument we have to manage risk – the [...]

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Safety Tool Box Meeting

George Robotham

George’s Safety Reflections – SEE MORE HERE Safety Tool box meetings Regular, short, sharp, tool-box meetings or toolbox talks can be an excellent means of getting the safety message to employees and resolving safety problems. The following advice is given for the conduct of these meetings: Find a quiet area free of distractions Use open-ended [...]

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Free Safety Toolbox Talks

Safety Committee

Free Safety Toolbox Talks Safety tool box talks are a very effective way of communicating current health and safety issues, hazards and recent incidents to the workforce. They are designed to be brief, efficient and delivered in the work environment before starting work for the day. I have found them to be much more effective [...]

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Ideas For Toolbox Talks

Toolbox Talks

Ideas For Toolbox Talks Toolbox talks and pre-start meetings have become a very effective way of maintaining safety awareness and bringing attention to any current or emerging hazards and risks. They are meant to be a brief, interactive discussion about a specific topic but can also touch on a number of issues relevant to the [...]

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Safety Tip – Hazard Alerts

Hazard Alerts

A large mine site I visited recently subscribes to industry hazard alerts and safety alerts. These are displayed on the large TV in the lunch room each morning. All employees must read them before they start work and then the alerts are discussed in tool box talks. Technorati Tags: hazard alert, large tv, lunch room, [...]

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Take 5 for Safety: Five Minute Daily Safety Meetings

Safety Meetings

There are a few ways to Take 5 for safety: You could take five minutes to do a safety drill or take five minutes to surprise an employee with a safety pop quiz. You may also wish to take five minutes out of every monthly meeting to address a safety concern, or you could take [...]

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Free Safety Toolbox Talks

Construction Safety

  Safety Toolbox talks have become an important part of the safety culture at most major construction sites and other hazardous workplaces. They are a crucial activity for maintaining safety awareness and providing information about current hazards and issues. Safety Bob provides these free toolbox talks if you are struggling to come up with new ideas [...]

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Free Tool Box Talk Presentations

Mine Safety

Free Toolbox Talks to Download Some excellent free safety resources from WA Dept Mines & Petroleum. Most are relevant and useful to other heavy industries as well. These PowerPoint shows are made available for non-commercial use (eg toolbox meetings and training sessions) subject to the condition that the content is not altered without permission from [...]

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More New Ideas for Safety Committee Meetings

Employees Safety

Our articles about how to inject new life into your safety committee meetings and tool box talks to make them more effective have been extremely popular. Here are a few more ideas. If you have any others please share them: Allocate the committee a small budget to spend on whatever they want – could be [...]

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