Written Job Briefings

[Jem4417]

The detail for that job briefing is excellent. If your dealing with electrical hazards daily that format will get important questions answered. But as I read these responses I think I want to have a job briefing more catered to each individual's specific role and to have the job briefing almost tell the story of how the job will go, outlining where each person will be at most risk to have an accident for that specific job. I would want to have space for a few sentences that give specific details. But instead of having a checklist maybe have a reference sheet to help jog workers memories of questions we should be asking about the job. Examples: what will be the most hazardous operation? How will we prevent and mitigate. Who will be doing it and when?

 

[Stephen George]

If someone else has stated anything close to what I'm about to write, I apologize in advance, I only skim read the other answers. I have been required to do job briefings for 2 other companies. Albeit, it is not required to do a written job briefing before work begins, if something happens, OSHA looks higher upon companies who participate in this ritual. It has been my experience for companies to generalize the briefing format, in order to speed up the process and continue with their production based mindset. My Argument for this is, a generalization of a simple task to increase safety awareness completely negates the reasoning behind instituting the activity. The main reason for a job briefing is to institute a crew awareness for possible hazards, and a mitigation plan to eliminate or safeguard against said hazards. Safety should be everyone's main thought, and by doing a briefing requiring actual involvement to create, you encourage this mindset. Making that swing is only cool when you land on target, felling that tree is only badass when it goes where you aimed, cutting that big top or limb looks good as long as everything comes out. All accidents are preventable as long as you've mitigated the possible precursors.