Continually give crew members opportunities to ask questions.Keep workers engaged by asking questions or making them go into more detail regarding specific job hazards.Pay attention to crew members’ body language and engagement level throughout the safety briefing to remember which points need to be emphasized towards the end.Stay on a set agenda but take note of points that need to be reinforced.This type of collaboration produces trust and security among crew members giving way for each person to be looking out for one another instead of focusing solely on their own tasks.Once tools and techniques have been reviewed, allow for hands-on time for all workers to be familiarized so they feel safe and confident moving forward.Allow time for coaching and mentoring before starting new work.Review all tools used during work to ensure familiarization and any need for additional or refresher training for inexperienced crew members.If there is a new worker on site, allow him/her to share any new methods learned during their instruction.Consider new and different safe techniques to execute the job.

Allow for crew members to take partial ownership of the safety briefing by sharing best practices in similar situations to the current project at hand.Give experienced crew members an opportunity to share previous scenarios and how those situations were handled.Ask for previous experiences in the project’s specific type of labor.

Allow crew members to further explain specific tasks to promote collaboration and teamwork to understand how everyone’s tasks fit together in the overall scheme.Review each member’s tasks (if in a smaller group) and go through the schedule chronologically, ensuring counterparts understand activity outside of their work.Ensure the location of the brief is in a distraction-free setting, phones are put down, and eyes/ears are on the person giving the briefing.What is the purpose of the job and how does the work done affect the outcome of the business? If people believe in what they’re doing and can see the good in it, they need to be consistently reminded of how they fit into the overall purpose.Here are the 9 ways to keep safety briefings fresh, collaborative, and effective:

While many workers would view these discussions as boring and/or a waste of time, the safety briefing has potential to be the most interactive, enlightening, and intriguing part of the work day if properly planned and executed with meaning. The overarching purpose of a safety job briefing is to identify, evaluate, and control hazardous situations.

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