Sample One-Click Safety Meeting on Trenching Safety
Motivate your workers to listen (5 minutes)
One pipelayer was crushed to death and another injured when a trench collapsed. They were laying sewer pipe in a trench four feet (1.22 meters) wide at the bottom and 15 feet (4.57 meters) wide at the top.
Interactive Component. Ask your workers if they think they could outrun a landslide in a trench.
Distribute information
Here is a handout for your workers. You may wish to include company-specific information you prepared in step 1.
Teach the Safe Way - the safety talk (15 minutes)
You may use either the PowerPoint, Audio only or the text below
Trenching and excavating involve serious hazards. Machine-dug areas can present cave-ins, dust and airborne contaminants. If excavating, you need to know how to prevent these problems.
Wrap up the meeting. (5 minutes)
Ask for questions.
Hand out this quiz.
- Trenching and excavating never involve serious hazards.
True or False
Have the workers take the quiz and sign it.
Also have them print and sign their names on the attendance sheet.
Document the meeting (5 minutes)
Grade the quiz
Answers are: 1. False 2.True 3.False ... File all the completed quizzes with your personnel office, and be sure to keep a copy for yourself.
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