Toolbox Talks

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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Why do we miss safety hazards

Hazard Pictures

This is a great resource to use at your next safety training session or tool box talk. Explains why sometimes we miss hazards in the workplace due to focus on other outcomes. This was a very famous experiment to prove that we don’t always see what is right in front of us. Read more about [...]

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Safety Poem

Articles

I’ve seen this on notice boards and read out in toolbox talks – seems to have the desired effect: I could have saved a life that day, But I chose to look the other way. It wasn’t that I didn’t care; I had the time, and I was there. But I didn’t want to seem [...]

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Training Accountabilities and Managing Contractors

Contractor Induction

RECENT ARTICLE FROM NOEL ARNOLD & ASSOCIATES: Principal Contractors have a Common Law duty of care to protect the health, welfare and safety of independent contractors. In brief, this duty of care includes: Reasonable care in employment of subcontractors/ independent contractors, ensuring they are competent to control their systems of work; duty to retain general supervision of [...]

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Product Review – Work Safety Solutions

Product Reviews

Safety Meeting Guides and Safety Posters Ever been stuck for what to talk about at your next safety meeting or toolbox talk or sick of the same old safety videos (sorry DVDs)? Work Safety Solutions supply a huge range of ready made safety training packages including manual handling, forklifts, ladders. confined spaces, eye safety, slips [...]

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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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