SAFETY BLOG

Team huddles are not just for football.  A fifteen minute Monday morning huddle will make a big difference in your companies safety record.  On Friday, at the end of each work week, have your managers or supervisors review the events of the past week and decide which safety topics need to be addressed for the following week.  Take a few minutes and develop a brief outline that can be reviewed with employees.  Monday morning, while everyone is loading up on coffee, take fifteen minutes and discuss the safety outline.  Review the outline, encourage discussion, accept ideas, and then have all employees sign the outline to show that the meeting actually took place.

This simple safety exercise will benefit your company in the following ways:

• A list developed by your company centers on hazards that are pertinent to your business and operations.  Companies that use safety reviews developed by third parties only talk about safety topics provided by that company which are not necessarily pertinent to your business.
• Performing this review on a weekly basis creates safety-minded managers and employees. 
• Signed topic outlines should be kept for training purposes.  Governing safety agencies can see the evidence that shows your company is making strides to be safety compliant.
• Discussions arising from the Monday huddles will give managers a good indication where employee knowledge is lacking.  Further, more detailed trainings can be developed and implemented to meet these needs.
• Companies that conduct weekly safety meetings are less likely to have accidents or injuries in the workplace.

Time to huddle up folks.  Safety should always be considered a team event.  Use your heads, watch each others backs, be ready for anything, good luck...Go get em.  BREAK!