Toolbox talks by topic · English
Chemicals
5 talks on this topic. Each prints as a one-page talk plus a sign-in sheet with the topic and citations already filled in, and each is also published in Spanish.
Toolbox Talk · About 10 minutes to deliver
Reading a Safety Data Sheet
Sixteen sections, and the four you actually need on site — plus what the pictograms are telling you.
29 CFR 1910.1200
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Chemical Spills: The First Five Minutes
The decision that matters is whether this is yours to clean up at all — and most people decide wrong, quickly, with a mop.
29 CFR 1910.120 · 29 CFR 1910.1200 · 29 CFR 1910.151
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Asbestos: When You Find It
Old buildings hide it in a dozen materials, the rule presumes it in two of them, and the right response is to stop rather than to be careful.
29 CFR 1926.1101
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Lead in Old Paint
Torching, sanding or grinding old paint puts lead in the air and on your hands — and the person it hurts most may be a child at home.
29 CFR 1926.62
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Hydrogen Sulfide
Smells of rotten eggs until the concentration that kills you, at which point it smells of nothing at all.
29 CFR 1910.1000 · 29 CFR 1910.146
Toolbox talks are not the training
A ten-minute talk raises awareness on one topic. It does not satisfy an OSHA training requirement on its own, and it is not a substitute for the training your people are actually required to have. When you need that, it is what we sell.
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