While many general industry operations do not change much day to day, there are still many hazards present that could injure workers. Holding useful safety meetings prior to work beginning is an effective way to help prevent injuries on the job.
Use the safety talks listed below for your next safety meeting or safety moment. For additional safety talks browse the list of all the safety talks posted on the site!
- Alcohol Use
- Allergies
- Amputations
- Annual Checkup
- Asbestos Dangers
- Automated External Defibrillators
- Back Injuries and Prevention
- Battling Complacency
- Benzene
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Burn Severity
- Burns
- Carbon Monoxide Safety
- Carcinogens
- Clothing
- Cold Stress
- Common Cold
- Communicating Issues
- Communication and Safety
- Communication Tools and Safety
- Concrete Work
- Costs of Drugs on the Job
- Dangers of Excessive Sitting
- Dealing with Stress from Home
- Diesel Exhaust
- Distracted Driving (Cellphone Use)
- Distracted While Walking
- Distractions Created by Smartphones When Not in Use
- Doing Work Tasks Wrong the First Time
- Dropped Objects
- Drowsy Driving
- Drug Abuse
- Easy Way Instead of the Right Way
- Electrical Injuries
- Electrical Safety
- Elimination of Hazards
- Eye Injuries and Prevention
- Fall Protection
- Falls on the Same Level
- Fatigue
- Fire Extinguishers Use and Inspection
- 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
- Gasoline Safety
- Habits and Safety
- Hand Safety and Injury Prevention
- Hand Tool Inspections
- Hazardous Chemicals- Four Routes of Entry
- Health is Everything
- Heart Attacks
- Heat Stress
- Heat Stroke
- Helping Out
- Hierarchy of Controls
- How Observant Are You?
- How What We Do at Home Affects Work
- Human Performance
- Hydration: The Importance of Water
- Hydrogen Sulfide
- Importance of Mentoring
- Insect Sting Allergies
- Involve the Right Person
- Knowing What to do in an Emergency
- Lack of Time
- Ladder Safety
- Lawn Mower Safety
- Lead Paint
- Leave Yourself an Out
- Lifting and Rigging
- Line of Fire Hazards
- Manual Handling Injury Prevention
- Mechanical Issue-Related Crashes
- New Employees
- New Equipment
- Noise at Work and Home
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Not My Problem
- Occupational-related Cancer
- Office Safety
- One Billion Dollars Spent on Injuries a Week
- One Safeguard Doesn’t Make it Safe
- Opioid Abuse
- Organization of Work Areas
- Orthostatic Intolerance
- Pinch Points and Hand Injuries
- Poison Ivy
- Pressure Washing
- Ready For Work
- Recognized Versus Unrecognized Hazards
- Relying on Memory
- Report All Injuries
- S.O.R.T Tool
- Safety Can Be Redundant
- Safety Related Paperwork
- Seatbelts
- Selective Attention at Work
- Seven Basic General Industry Safety Rules
- Severity and Frequency
- Shift Work Dangers
- Shoveling Snow
- Silica Dust
- Skid Steer Safety
- Sleep
- Slips
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Snakes in the Workplace
- Spiders
- Spotter Safety
- Stopping Work
- Stretching Pros and Cons
- Strokes- Signs and Emergency Response
- Struck-by Incidents (Construction)
- Taking Action to Work Safe
- Taking Ownership of Safety
- Taking Shortcuts
- Task Planning
- The Little Things
- The Negative Side of Quick Reactions
- Think of the Next Person
- Three Self-Centered Reasons to Work Safe
- Three Types of Poor Housekeeping Hazards
- Three Way Communication
- Tornado Safety
- Train Safety
- Trip Injuries and Prevention
- Truck Driving
- Two Types of Workplace Stress
- Types of Fire Extinguishers
- Underground Utility Strikes
- Unsafe Conditions
- Vehicle Inspections
- Verbal Communication and Workplace Safety
- Verifying Safeguards
- Weed Wacker Safety
- Which Safeguard Makes the Difference?
- Wildlife in the Workplace
- Winter Weather
- Winter Weather Driving
- Wood Dust
- Work Area Best Practices
- Working Alongside Subcontractors
- Workplace Inspections
- Workplace Shootings
- Workplace Suicides
- Workplace Violence
- Zero Injuries in the Workplace
