Construction Safety Meeting Topics
Construction safety meetings are a great way to keep everyone informed about construction-related topics. The right information shared at these sessions can help protect people, comply with regulations, and reduce workers’ compensation costs for your company.
The list of topics that you need to be covering regularly in your safety meetings can never be too long. Considering the extensive amount of topics, you may want to focus on a particular category or subject that you find most important (not to say that they’re not all-important). It’s critical for all employees to understand essential points and stay up-to-date on any changes or new information. Luckily, safetytalkideas.com has curated an extensive list with talking points on any topic you may need or may have forgotten about.
- Alcohol Use
- Allergies
- Amputations
- Annual Checkup
- Asbestos Dangers
- Automated External Defibrillators
- Back Injuries and Prevention
- Backing Up Hazards
- Battery Handling
- Battling Complacency
- Bees and Wasps
- Being Client-focused (Construction Industry)
- Benzene Dangers in the Workplace
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Burn Hazards and Injury Prevention
- Burn Severity
- Carbon Monoxide Safety
- Carcinogens in the Workplace
- Chainsaw General Safety
- Clothing and Safety
- Cold Stress Hazards
- Common Cold
- Common Issues with Fire Extinguishers
- Communicating Issues
- Communication and Safety
- Communication Tools and Safety
- Concrete Burns
- Concrete Work
- Costs of Drugs on the Job
- Dangers of Excessive Sitting
- Dealing with Stress from Home
- Diesel Exhaust Dangers and Safeguards
- Distracted Driving (Cellphone Use)
- Distracted While Walking
- Distractions Created by Smartphones When Not in Use
- Doing Work Tasks Wrong the First Time
- Dropped Objects on the Job
- Drowsy Driving
- Drug Abuse
- Dump Truck Operation
- Dump Truck Overturns
- Dust Hazards in Construction
- Easy Way Instead of the Right Way
- Electrical Injuries
- Electrical Safety
- Elimination of Hazards
- Emergency Exits
- Excavation Safety
- Excavator Quick Coupler Device Safety
- Eye Damage Due to Sunlight
- Eye Injuries and Prevention
- Fall Protection
- Falls in the Construction Industry
- Falls on the Same Level
- Fatal Four Hazards (Construction)
- Fatigue on the Job
- Fire Extinguishers Use and Inspection
- Fire Watch General Safety
- First Aid Preparedness
- First Day Back to Work
- Five Common Contributing Factors
- Five Reasons to Work Safe Today
- Fixed Objects (Motor Vehicle Safety)
- Fixed Open Blade Knives
- Flu
- Forklift Fatalities and Injuries
- Four Focus Items for Work Area Inspections
- Front End Loader Safety
- Gasoline Safety
- Ground Personnel and Mobile Equipment
- Habits and Safety
- Hand Safety and Injury Prevention
- Hand Tool Inspections
- Hazardous Chemicals- Four Routes of Entry
- HDPE Pipe Welding
- Health is Everything
- Heart Attacks
- Heat Stress
- Heat Stroke
- Heavy Equipment (Four Other Hazards)
- Heavy Equipment (Two Major Hazards)
- Heavy Equipment Operation
- Helping Out
- Hierarchy of Controls
- High Wind Dangers (Construction)
- Horseplay on the Job
- Housekeeping in the Construction Industry
- How Observant Are You?
- Hydration: The Importance of Water
- Hydrogen Sulfide
- Importance of Organized Laydown Yards
- Insect Sting Allergies
- Knowing What to do in an Emergency
- Lack of Time
- Ladder Safety
- Lawn Mower Safety
- Lead Paint Dangers and Safety
- Leave Yourself an Out
- Lifting and Rigging
- Lightning Safety at Work and Home
- Line of Fire Hazards
- Lyme Disease
- Machine Guarding
- Manual Handling Injury Prevention
- Mosquitos
- Motor Vehicle Safety
- Muddy Work Areas
- New Employees on the Job
- New Equipment
- Nine Basic Construction Safety Rules
- Noise at Work and Home
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Occupational-related Cancer
- Office Safety
- One Billion Dollars Spent on Injuries a Week
- Opioid Abuse
- Organization of Work Areas
- Orthostatic Intolerance
- Pinch Points and Hand Injuries
- Poison Ivy
- Pressure Washing
- Preventing Equipment Damage Incidents (Construction)
- Radio Communication on the Job
- Ready For Work
- Recordable Injuries – Why Employees Should Care
- Report All Injuries
- Respirator Donning, Doffing, and Seal Checks
- S.O.R.T Tool
- Safety Glasses
- Safety Related Paperwork
- Securing a Construction Site
- Selective Attention at Work
- Severity and Frequency
- Shift Work Dangers
- Shoveling Snow
- Silica Dust Dangers and Safety Measures
- Silicosis
- Skid Steer Safety
- Skin Cancer Due to Sun Exposure
- Sleep
- Sling Inspections
- Slip Hazards and Safety
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Snakes in the Workplace
- Spiders
- Spotter Safety at Work
- Stretching Pros and Cons
- Strokes- Signs and Emergency Response
- Struck-by Incidents (Construction)
- Surveying (Construction)
- Table Saw General Safety
- Task Planning
- The Negative Side of Quick Reactions
- The Ripple Effect of Safety
- Theft from a Construction Site
- Three Types of Poor Housekeeping Hazards
- Three Way Communication
- Ticks
- Tornado Safety
- Train Safety
- Trip Injuries and Prevention
- Truck Driving – Hazards On and Off the Road
- Two Types of Workplace Stress
- Types of Fire Extinguishers
- Underground Utility Strikes
- Unloading Trailers (Construction)
- Unsafe Conditions in the Workplace
- Utility Vehicle Safety at Home and Work
- Weed Wacker Safety
- West Nile Virus
- Which Safeguard Makes the Difference?
- Wildlife in the Workplace
- Wind Chill Index
- Winter Weather
- Wood Dust
- Work Area Best Practices
- Working Alongside Subcontractors
- Workplace Inspections
- Workplace Shootings
- Workplace Suicides
- Workplace Violence
Meetings and toolbox talks are more than just venues for getting safety-related messages across. They also help site management collect information straight from the worker’s mouth. These interactive sessions provide opportunities for discussion among all sections of your workforce which contributes to creating an environment in which open communication about workplace health & welfare issues can take place. Relaying the right construction safety topics for your crew can mean the difference between a smooth project and a disaster.
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