Toolbox talks, conducted on a regular basis (sometimes daily) by industrial organizations, can be a great way to raise safety awareness on the job. Too often, however, they are held for the sake of being held. There’s often a lack of direction and goals in these talks. One way to give them more meaning and direction is to connect them to your required compliance training.
Eric Svendsen, Ph.D., is Principal and lead change agent for safetyBUILT-IN, a safety-leadership learning and development organization. He has over 20 years experience in creating and executing outcomes-based leadership development and culture change initiatives aligned to organizational goals, and he personally led the safety-culture initiatives of a number of client organizations that resulted in “best ever safety performance” years for those companies.