Toolbox talks by topic · English
Culture
6 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 8 minutes to deliver
Near Misses and Speaking Up
The injury you never have is the one somebody reported last month — and it is against federal law to be punished for reporting.
29 CFR 1904.35 · 29 CFR 1903.2 · OSH Act § 11(c)
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
The First Week on a New Job
New workers get hurt at several times the rate of experienced ones — and it is almost never because they were careless.
29 CFR 1926.21 · 29 CFR 1910.132
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Mental Health and Asking Twice
Construction has one of the highest suicide rates of any industry, and the whole intervention is one person asking a direct question.
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Workplace Violence
Most of it comes from outside — an upset customer, a member of the public, a domestic situation that follows someone to work.
29 CFR 1910.132 · OSH Act § 5(a)(1)
Toolbox Talk · About 7 minutes to deliver
Phones and Distraction
Not a lecture about phones — a talk about the fact that attention is one thing and a site takes all of it.
29 CFR 1926.21 · 49 CFR 392.80
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Impairment at Work
Not only alcohol and not only illegal drugs — the prescription that says do not operate machinery is the one people skip past.
29 CFR 1926.20 · 49 CFR 382.201 · OSH Act § 5(a)(1)
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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