An Introduction to a 5-Minute security Talk

According to whscc.nb.ca, safety talk is a hands-on way to remind workers that condition and safety are important on the job. While ofswa.on.ca describes it as a brief meeting held on quarterly basis with workers and their supervisors to discuss problems and concerns about condition and safety. Principally, it deals with definite topic, subject and qoute which are condition and safety linked in the workplace.

The objectives of a safety talk are to remind workers about potential hazards in their workplaces and help workers to identify and control these hazards.

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They are best delivered by population who are responsible for workers' safety and health. They may be supervisors, condition and safety officers, members of safety committee or anyone with condition and safety duties. Even in some companies every worker is scheduled to give safety talk, in order to voice safety awareness among them.

So what kind of message should we deliver while safety talk? Are there any accepted messages? Basically there are no accepted messages. As long as we select a definite topic, subject or qoute which impart to condition and safety in the workplace, it will be enough. But the important point is safety talk message has to be well prepared, because it should be terminated in about 5 minutes..

Now it is the time to set up its schedule. We can achieve it once a week, three times a week or once a day. It merely depends on company's Ohs policy, job risks, workplace conditions and worker's skills.

Choose most accepted location where we will do it. Wherever possible, select the real workplace, or at least as close as potential to the real workplace. For instance, if we would like to achieve safety talk about confined space work hazards, do it at a tank, at an opened reactor column or near a vessel.

If potential use real tools, equipments, materials (for example chemicals), procedures and work conditions to demonstrate key points of the safety talk we are talking about, and to make it is easy to be understood.

Don't forget to make a record. Report the date, location, leader, attendants and the topic. Make sure that all attendants have signed on the attendant list. Also make a copy of the safety talk material and keep it together with the records for time to come reference.

Finally, I would like to stress that although safety talks only take 5 minutes to finish, but it helps employers and workers to remind importance of condition and safety, identify and control hazards, and keeps workers awareness alive. Remember, there are much potential hazards inside chemical plant.

An Introduction to a 5-Minute security Talk