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Have you ever stuck on which topic you should discuss in the coming toolbox talk? It is not easy to hold daily toolbox talk when you know limited topics and repeating the same topic every day without any modification or addition.
Toolbox talks are conducted in almost all industries/businesses before starting the work and are held in the morning to discuss the health, safety and environmental precaution measures related to the task.
Importance of Toolbox Talks
Toolbox talks are essential to refresh information about health, safety and environment among the workers, to reduce risk and to comply with legal requirements.
Sometimes, it gets difficult to come up with new topics for toolbox talk and concentrate on one topic during toolbox talk. So, we have list 66 topics, industry-wise for you, which you can use to select/schedule for your upcoming toolbox talk. You should select minimum topics such as one or two so that topic(s) should be covered thoroughly and deliver all the critical points related to the topic.
Here is the list of 66 HSE Toolbox Talk topics
General Industry
1. Office Safety
2. Computer Ergonomics
3. Defensive Driving
4. Heavy Equipment
5. Equipment/Vehicle Roll Over
6. Walking/Working around equipment/vehicles
7. Falling Objects
8. Working at Height
9. Personal Protective Equipment
10. Hot and Cold Environment
11. Heat Stress
12. Noise
13. Waste Disposal
14. Storage and Handling of Chemicals
15. Good Housekeeping
16. Safety Signs
17. Accident/Incident Reporting
18. First Aid
19. Welfare Facilities
20. Permit to Work
Civil Industry
21. Emergency Response Plan
22. Barricades
23. Working with Cement
24. Dust and Dirt
25. Fragile Roofs
26. Soil Types
27. Vibration
28. Excavations
Mechanical Industry
29. Hand Tools
30. Power Tools
31. Pneumatic Tools
32. Pinch Points
33. Machine Guards
34. Manual Handling
35. Forklifts
36. Cranes
37. Rigging Failure
38. Sling Inspection
39. Use of Taglines
40. Transporting and Unloading Materials
41. Stacking/Storing Materials
42. Compressed Gas Cylinder
43. Fire Safety
44. Fire Extinguisher
45. Equipment and Vehicle leaks
46. Disposing of Oil rags
47. Spill Clean up
48. Spill Prevention
49. Slips, Trips and Falls
50. Ladder
51. Scaffolding
52. Mobile Elevating Work Platform
53. Confined Space
54. Spray painting
55. Erecting Steel Structures
56. Sand Blasting
Electrical Industry
57. Electrocution
58. Electrical Burns
59. Electrical Sparks
60. Lockout/Tag-out
61. Proper Grounding
62. Over Head Power Lines
63. Battery Charging
64. Insulated Gloves
65. Portable Generators66. Working near underground cables
You should select the topics related to potential risks available at your site/industry. You should write or make a presentation on the above toolbox talks topics before conducting the toolbox talk to make it appropriate, useful and best. You are invited to add more topics to the list by commenting below.
Download the PDF version of the 66 HSE toolbox talk topics below to review them in the future.
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