Toolbox Talks - 140 Safety Briefings

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A Tips & Advice book about... 

In a nutshell

This book helps you organise basic health and safety training at minimal cost. Safe and reliable, it ensures you've ticked all the legal boxes whilst taking care of workplace safety. We've done all the hard work for you and put together a series of 140 briefings covering everything from working at height to manual handling.

In detail

Each Saftey Briefing is structured in the same way, tackling five key areas:

• What it's about
• Associated hazards
• Risk level
• Control measures
• Key points

As long as staff can gather around the presenter and hear clearly, you can hold the Safety Briefing anywhere you like. Each Safety Briefing takes only 15 minutes and can easily be given by a non-expert. Use this book as a powerful way and cost-effective way to train staff.

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We've created this Tips & Advice book especially for... 

Health & safety managers, supervisors and trainers, business owners, company directors that want to:

• Take care of basic health and safety training at minimal cost

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The most important updates to this new edition include… 

The addition of Safety Briefings that cover :

• Fire safety awareness
• ISO 45001
• Working with food
• Deliveries
• Using equipment safely

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You'll get the following free extras with this Tips & Advice book... 

An Online Service with ready-to-use documents

• To immediately apply our advice and solutions in practice
• That you can easily adapt to suit your own requirements

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In this Tips & Advice book you'll read about...

Introduction

Safety briefing training register

Safety briefing - master

Chapter 1 - Construction

Safety briefing - building site cleanliness

Safety briefing - buried services

Safety briefing - Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

Safety briefing - contaminated land

Safety briefing - cement and concrete

Safety briefing - construction phase plans

Safety briefing - driving and pulling nails

Safety briefing - method statements

Safety briefing - occupational health in construction work

Safety briefing - roads and streetworks

Safety briefing - safety in excavations

Safety briefing - safety with steelwork

Safety briefing - slinging and signalling

Safety briefing - use of cartridge-operated tools

Safety briefing - using cut-off saws

Safety briefing - using pneumatic tools

Safety briefing - welfare facilities for construction sites

Safety briefing - working on scaffolding

Chapter 2 - Fire

Safety briefing - evacuation procedures

Safety briefing - fire safety awareness

Safety briefing - preventing arson

Safety briefing - preventing workplace fires

Safety briefing - the role of the fire marshal

Safety briefing - use of fire extinguishers

Chapter 3 - Health and safety management

Safety briefing - accident prevention

Safety briefing - accident reporting

Safety briefing - accident response

Safety briefing - consultation

Safety briefing - employees’ duties

Safety briefing - employers’ duties

Safety briefing - food safety

Safety briefing - Health and Safety at Work Act

Safety briefing - H&S policy

Safety briefing - human factors in accidents

Safety briefing - international travel

Safety briefing - ISO 14001

Safety briefing - ISO 45001

Safety briefing - lone working

Safety briefing - manual handling

Safety briefing - permits to work

Safety briefing - powers of inspectors

Safety briefing - safe driving

Safety briefing - safe use of hazardous substances

Safety briefing for event marshals

Safety briefing register

Safety briefing - slips and trips

Safety briefing - understanding a risk assessment

Safety briefing - violence and harassment

Safety briefing - winter driving

Safety briefing - working at height

Safety briefing - working in confined spaces

Safety briefing - young persons

Chapter 4 - Occupational health

Safety briefing - contact lenses

Safety briefing - drugs and alcohol

Safety briefing - dust

Safety briefing - first aid

Safety briefing - hand hazard awareness

Safety briefing - hand washing procedure

Safety briefing - hygiene

Safety briefing - Legionnaires’ disease

Safety briefing - Leptospirosis
(Weil’s disease)

Safety briefing - noise

Safety briefing - skin protection

Safety briefing - sunstroke

Safety briefing - vibration

Safety briefing - stress

Chapter 5 - Work equipment

Safety briefing - display screen equipment

Safety briefing - eye protection

Safety briefing - forklift trucks - blind spots

Safety briefing - handling gas cylinders

Safety briefing - handling petrol

Safety briefing - head protection

Safety briefing - lifejackets

Safety briefing - maintenance hazards

Safety briefing - manual pallet trucks

Safety briefing - metalworking fluids

Safety briefing - power and hand tools

Safety briefing - PPE

Safety briefing - pressure washers

Safety briefing - preventing needlestick injuries

Safety briefing - refuelling portable tools

Safety briefing - safe use of machinery

Safety briefing - safe working on tyres in garages

Safety briefing - safety footwear

Safety briefing - scaffold towers

Safety briefing - trestles and stepladders

Safety briefing - use of abrasive wheels

Safety briefing - use of chainsaws

Safety briefing - use of extension leads

Safety briefing - use of forklift trucks

Safety briefing - using a ladder

Safety briefing - use of harnesses

Safety briefing - using a mobile elevating working platform

Safety briefing - using flammable liquids

Safety briefing - using knives and cutting tools in the workplace

Safety briefing - using LPG

Safety briefing - using personal protective equipment

Safety briefing - vehicle content checks

Safety briefing - woodworking machines

Safety briefing - work equipment - master

Chapter 6 - Workplace

Safety briefing - accepting food deliveries

Safety briefing - asbestos management

Safety briefing - cable management

Safety briefing - cleaning of food preparation areas

Safety briefing - controlling spillages

Safety briefing - delivery drivers

Safety briefing - electricity

Safety briefing - floor openings

Safety briefing - food contamination hazards and controls

Safety briefing - food pests and controls

Safety briefing - food poisoning and controls

Safety briefing - hot works

Safety briefing - housekeeping

Safety briefing - lead

Safety briefing - liquid and spillage management

Safety briefing - office safety

Safety briefing - overhead lines

Safety briefing - pedestrian safety

Safety briefing - personal hygiene and food

Safety briefing - preventing falls through roof lights etc.

Safety briefing - protecting the public

Safety briefing - reporting near misses

Safety briefing - reversing vehicles

Safety briefing - safe handling and stacking of materials

Safety briefing - safe storage in offices

Safety briefing - safe working on electrical circuits

Safety briefing - safety data sheets

Safety briefing - safety signs

Safety briefing - site transport

Safety briefing - storing food

Safety briefing - tradespeople visiting homes

Safety briefing - working in, near or over water

Safety briefing - winter working

Chapter 7 - Environment

Staff briefing - being fuel efficient

Staff briefing - energy saving in the office

Staff briefing - environmental awareness

Safety briefing - storing and disposing of waste

Safety briefing - waste and recycling