Toolbox Talks for Supervisors: Short, Real, Two-Way
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Planning a toolbox talk about today’s real risks, delivering it so people listen, checking understanding, handling language barriers, and recording it properly.
- Assign to
- Supervisors and foremen
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Evidence
- 9-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Choose a topic that matches today’s real risks.
- Deliver a short, two-way talk.
- Check understanding, including across language barriers.
- Record the talk in a way that’s useful.
The course
- 01What they’re for
- 02Planning one
- 03Delivering it
- 04Checking and recording
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite Hayley’s roof edge talk”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “How Thursday’s talk missed” and “Two Monday mornings”.
How you know they finished
The 9-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 9-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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