Safety Stand-Down guidelines and protocols
Our Safety Committee has been tasked with developing a new Safety Stand-Down guidelines to present to our Senior Leadership Team. What I am looking for are suggestions for a program that some of you may have instituted at your company or other company's you used to work for/with.
We are trying to come up with what triggers a Safety Stand Down and then the activities that should be shared during the Safety Stand Down.
Any suggestions, examples, or templates, are greatly appreciated.
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We actually did this routinely, especially when there was a serious accident, near serious near miss, and any other serious hazard found. We called them "Huddle-Up Meetings". We would call all the supervisors together and go over with them what had happened and why. We would give them details on at least the "Interim Actions" put in place with lessons learned! Next the supervisors would go out on the floor and cease all operations, they would bring their people together on the floor and if possible near the scene of the problem and have a meeting where everything was discussed. Everyone would sign-off as to their attendance. Everyone had to be in a meeting, so follow-up meetings were held for those absent. We had 2-4 a year, until the last few years (before I retired) when we were under 1 per year (a couple years 0).
Randy, do you run an incident register through a risk matrix? If so then I’d stand down on any of the top ten SIF’s.
These incidents should be rare. If the probability and severity are both high, then you have to direct resources to minimize one or the other. This should move it down the list.