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Tool Box Talks

A Tool Box Talk is an informal safety meeting that focuses on safety topics related to the specific job, such as workplace hazards and safe work practices. Meetings are normally short in duration and are generally conducted at the job site prior to the commencement of a job or work shift. It is one of the very effective methods to refresh workers' knowledge, cover last-minute safety checks, and exchange information with the experienced workers. Tool Box Talks are also intended to facilitate health and safety discussions on the job site and promote your organization’s safety culture. Tool Box Talks meetings are sometimes referred to as tailgate meetings or safety briefings. Click here to view/download a Tool Box Talk meeting form. Each of the Tool Box Talk PDFs below contain a "How To Use This Resource" page to help with the administration of a Tool Box Talk safety meeting.
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Other Tool Box Talks (alphabetized by topic)
- A-
-B-
-C-
- Certificate of Recognition (COR®) program
- Combustible Materials
- Confined Space
- Cranes
- Construction Site Access/Egress
- Contractor/Prime Contractor Duties
-D-
- Dangerous Occurrences
- Defensive Driving
- Diabetes
- Distracted Driving
- Duties of the Employer & Supervisor
- Duties of Workers
-E-
- Electrical Safety
- Elevator Shaft and Open Holes
- Emergency Preparedness
- Environmental Safety
- Equipment, Machine and Tool Guards
- Ergonomics in Construction
- Excavating & Trenching
- Extension Ladder Safety
- Eye Protection
- Eye Safety
- F –
- Fall Protection Anchor Systems
- Fall Protection
- Fatigue Management
- First Aid
- Food Safety
- Foot Protection Safety
- Frame Scaffold Safety
- Frostbite
- G –
- H -
- Hand Protection
- Hand Protection: Gloves
- Hand Tools Safety
- Hand Tool Safety
- Hantavirus
- Harassment
- Hazard Assessment
- Hazard Recognition & Control
- Head Protection
- Health & Wellness
- Hearing Protection
- Hoisting Signals
- Housekeeping
- Hydrogen (H2S) Sulphide Safet
- I –
- L -
- M –
- N -
- P -
- Personal Care and Conduct
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Powered Mobile Equipment
- Power Line Safety
- Presenteeism
- Protecting the Public
- Prime Contractor
- Protective Eyewear
- Emergency Preparedness - Pandemic
- R –
- S –
- Safety Culture
- Safe Job Procedures
- Safe Lifting Practices
- Safety - Bring it Home
- Safe Use of Power Tools
- Safe Work Practices
- Scaffold Safety
- Silica Dust Exposure
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Stepladder Safety
- Stretching 101: Construction Workers
- Summary Offence Ticketing
- Summer Weather Hazards
- System Scaffold
- T –
- Temporary Heating
- Temporary Stairs and Handrails
- Traffic Control
- Trailer Towing
- Tube and Clamp Scaffold
- U -
- W -
- Welder’s Flash
- WHMIS 2015
- Winter Site Safety
- Working Alone
- Worker Rights
- Workplace Complacency
- Work Refusal
- Working in Cold Weather
- Working in Hot Weather
- Workplace Building Materials Safety
- Workplace Hearing Protection
- Workplace Law
- Workplace Platforms Safety
- Work Zone Traffic Safety
- Y –