Toolbox talks by topic · English
Fall Protection
7 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
Fall Protection: The Six-Foot Rule
Six feet in construction, and what counts as protection — plus the anchor point most people get wrong.
29 CFR 1926.501 · 29 CFR 1926.502
Toolbox Talk · About 10 minutes to deliver
Aerial Lifts: Tie Off in the Basket
Boom lifts throw people out; scissor lifts tip over. Different machines, different rules, and the tie-off question people get wrong.
29 CFR 1926.453 · 29 CFR 1926.451 · 29 CFR 1926.502
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Floor Holes and Covers
The hazard that gets built in the morning and kills someone in the afternoon, and what makes a cover a cover rather than a piece of plywood.
29 CFR 1926.501 · 29 CFR 1926.502
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Roof Work and the Edge
Six feet applies on a roof too, warning lines have real distances, and a safety monitor is a person with one job and no other.
29 CFR 1926.501 · 29 CFR 1926.502
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Steel Erection and Fifteen Feet
A different trigger height, two narrow exceptions people misuse, and the reason nobody walks a beam without knowing which one applies.
29 CFR 1926.760 · 29 CFR 1926.754 · 29 CFR 1926.759
Toolbox Talk · About 7 minutes to deliver
Working Over Water
Vests, ring buoys every 200 feet, and a boat in the water — the requirements people discover after somebody goes in.
29 CFR 1926.106 · 29 CFR 1926.104
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Rescue at Height
The harness stops the fall. It does not get anybody down — and the standard requires you to have already worked out who does.
29 CFR 1926.502 · 29 CFR 1926.503
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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