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Toolbox Talk 2006 A meeting of frontline workers and senior executives www.safetystanddown.ca Toolbox Talk—Intervention What is a safety intervention? To involve oneself in an at-risk situation so as to alter or hinder an action or the development if an incident or injury. A safety intervention is action taken to prevent an injury or incident from occurring. What is at-risk? At-risk behavior is a behavior that exposes a worker to a potential injury. At-risk condition is a condition with the potential to cause injury, property damage or process failure. Why intervene? Every Employee has the right and duty to intervene All Canadian OHS legislation requires employers to promote the right and the duty of every employee to intervene in the interests of safety An intervention process facilitates feedback An intervention process is proactive Benefits of intervention Injury prevention Incident prevention Identification of at-risk behavior or condition Fewer equipment damage incidents Fewer material loss incidents Completion of work or task on time and budget Who should intervene? All employees have the obligation to speak up when they identify an at-risk behavior or condition Employees in a leadership role need to be a role model; if an activity doesn’t look right start to ask questions Employees in a leadership role give silent consent when they ignore an at-risk situation; they need to speak up If employees don’t see leaders intervening they will not think it is important – if it is important to the leader it will be important to the employee How do you intervene? Having the courage to stop at-risk situations is what is important: Stress the friendly, helpful protective nature of the intervention Interventions help each other – avoid personal criticism Coach employees – don’t lecture, keep it short Never ask for names If discipline is attached to a safety intervention process employees will not intervene – we don’t like to get our co-workers in trouble Where? Where at-risk behaviors and conditions exist; look for them in and on the usual places: o Vehicles and mobile equipment o Parking lots o offices, building and camps o drilling rigs, on service rigs, on well sites, o seismic operations o pipeline construction sites When do you intervene? When you see an at-risk behavior or condition: o Not wearing a seat belt o Talking on a cell phone while driving o When an employee is standing in the line of fire o When you see an at-risk condition o A vehicle parked without the park brake applied o Ice build up on a high pedestrian traffic path o An unsecured load of pipe on a trailer Conclusion Why wait until it’s too late… Stop at-risk actions and conditions before injury or incidents occur It is your duty and obligation to intervene on behalf of safety. Follow-up notes ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________