Safety Meeting Topics
Safety meetings, toolbox talks, and tailgate talks play a vital role in communicating your company’s safety program information. Safety meetings, toolbox talks, and tailgate talks are part of each company's corporate social responsibility. These meetings are generally short and informal, although some may be longer or more formal, depending on the content.
Meeting Content
Safety meetings, toolbox talks, and tailgate talks should provide timely and useful information to employees. Topics discussed should pertain to the work and task hazards and risks, workers' needs and concerns, company or project safety procedures, OSHA compliance, recent incidents and near misses, and value-added topics (e.g., home safety, driving safety).
Meetings are used to place focus on health and wellbeing at the workplace, as well as the 24 hour cycle of health and safety from risk prevention through to occupational health - Safety 24/7!
Meeting Topics and Delivery Techniques
Safety meetings and talks should occasionally include some fun! Here are a few safety meeting tips to make your safety meetings topics fun, relevant, and meaningful:
- Fun photos taken by employees from around the plant or job site
- Guest speakers
- Testimonials
- Stories and pictures related to the topic
- Props
- Themes: Movies, known Game Shows, team games, Safety & Health mascots
- Hold meetings in different work areas
- Poster contests – e.g., “one minute poster” or posters designed by family members
- Local fire and emergency services attend and contribute
- Serve safety cookies with your theme or topic to accent messages or as quiz questions
Value of Meetings
Value and benefits from safety meetings, toolbox talks, and tailgate talks include:
- reinforcing your compliance training
- raising safety awareness on a regular basis
- developing safety-leadership skills among mid-level and front-line employees
- opportunity for discussion, feedback, and participation by workers.
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