Website: http://www.cnbsafe.com.au/toolbox-talks/

James Wood, award winning Safety Speaker provides his Top 5 Toolbox Talk Topics tips and reveals how to keep your workers interested in safety around the workplace.

Toolbox talks are a brilliant way to share important safety and workplace information. A toolbox talk is usually a quick informal chat amongst employees and management to share any updates to the workplace or a safety focus that may be relevant to employees.

The right information for a toolbox talk topic can be much more effective than pages and pages of written safety messages or workplace updates. Managers can tailor a toolbox talk topic to have a specific focus, it might be about a particular safety topic or an update to a procedure or a system.

Things to consider for an effective toolbox talk are:

1. make the talk interactive

2. have a location where everyone is comfortable