Toolbox talks by topic · English
Health
8 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 9 minutes to deliver
Blood and Body Fluids
The instinct to grab an injured workmate with bare hands is the right instinct and the wrong action — how to help without exposing yourself.
29 CFR 1910.1030 · 29 CFR 1926.50
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Fatigue and Long Shifts
Nineteen hours awake impairs you about as much as being at the legal drink-drive limit, and the impaired person is the last to know.
29 CFR 1910.132 · 29 CFR 1926.20
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Working Alone
Every ordinary hazard gets worse when there is nobody to notice — the fix is a check-in somebody actually escalates.
29 CFR 1926.50 · 29 CFR 1910.38 · 29 CFR 1910.146
Toolbox Talk · About 9 minutes to deliver
Carbon Monoxide
No colour, no smell, no warning — and the symptoms feel exactly like a long day, right up until people stop being able to walk out.
29 CFR 1910.1000 · 29 CFR 1926.55 · 29 CFR 1926.354
Toolbox Talk · About 7 minutes to deliver
Sun and Skin
Outdoor workers get far more lifetime UV than anyone else, it accumulates from the days you did not burn, and the damage shows up decades later.
29 CFR 1910.132 · 29 CFR 1926.28
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Vibration and Your Hands
White fingers, lost grip and lost feeling — it builds over years from ordinary tools and it does not come back.
29 CFR 1910.132 · 29 CFR 1926.28
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Diesel Exhaust Indoors
A carcinogen you can see and smell, produced by every machine on the job, and worst in the places with the least air.
29 CFR 1910.1000 · 29 CFR 1926.55
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality
Outdoor work in bad air is an exposure nobody used to plan for, and the number to act on is published free every hour.
29 CFR 1910.134 · 29 CFR 1910.1000 · 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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