Safety Talks
I have seen several posts on peers wanting safety talks or cabin talks.
I use to have to write daily safety talks for a rather large Division in a very large Corporation. With such a job I would not be afraid to copy and paste from any sources I could find! Sometimes I would use magazine articles, Google, my TPA (for you people that are not self-insured your WC insurance company), and for sure my peers.
I would often use an article of one - two pages and break into several snips for a topic over a week so.
Here is one source I saw on LinkedIn today:
https://boilersinfo.com/100-safety-topics-book/#google_vignette
Always credit your sources!!!! And I would not make any money on something I copied. But something like this has been previously published on public domain and a long as you keep them for internal use ONLY you should be safe! But be careful of copyright infringement. I had a very close call on this one once so am very carful on pictures and others' work!
What sources do you use?
Comments (5)
Perfect suggestion Tom - I do a Weekly Info Sheet for my organisation and I pick a subject and research my facts from what ever source is available, and use my own words and graphics rather than copy and paste before sending it out. Another way I found to pick a subject to write on is to look at what is going on in the workplace at the time - for instance -
* Are the teams going to be working in extreme weather conditions?
* Is there a number of your team riding bikes to and from work - write something on the safety of this.
The latest one I wrote was because we had a young girl lose her father and grandfather in the same week and another staff member diagnosed with a serious illness that meant a lot of time off work. So my paper this week was about how to talk to, and treat, these people when they are in the office. How not to be afraid of them but to also understand they just might need you to listen.
I always tend to get positive feedback each week from the articles.
Keep up the good work as these "Talks" really do work.
This is an excellent resource I've used for own needs. Professional looking and free. A good organization for meeting topics and all kinds of stuff.
https://www.cpwr.com/research/research-to-practice-r2p/r2p-library/toolbox-talks/