Toolbox talks by topic · English
Planning
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 9 minutes to deliver
Pre-Task Planning
Five minutes before the work, out loud, with the people doing it — the habit that prevents more than any single hazard talk.
29 CFR 1926.20 · 29 CFR 1926.21
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Permits and Who Signs Them
A permit is not paperwork, it is a person taking responsibility for conditions they checked — and the signature is the whole point.
29 CFR 1910.146 · 29 CFR 1926.352 · 29 CFR 1910.147
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Working Around Other Trades
The hazards that hurt you are increasingly not the ones your own crew created — and nobody owns the space between two companies.
29 CFR 1926.16 · 29 CFR 1926.20 · 29 CFR 1926.21
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Site Communication and Hand Signals
One signaller, agreed signals, and a radio channel somebody is actually listening to — plus what to do when the plan and the noise disagree.
29 CFR 1926.1419 · 29 CFR 1926.201 · 29 CFR 1926.21
Toolbox Talk · About 8 minutes to deliver
Working in Occupied Buildings
Everyone around you is untrained, unaware, and entitled to walk wherever they like — which makes them your hazard to control.
29 CFR 1926.20 · 29 CFR 1926.200 · 29 CFR 1910.38
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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