Toolbox meetings are an important tool to inform the employees about everything related to safety. The topics can vary from just general safety to project-specific risks. Getting the employees together and talking about these topics is really important to keep the safety culture alive.
Despite the importance of the toolbox meetings, they do come with some pitfalls. We will touch upon them and give you some simple tips on how to prevent them.
The Planning
Planning toolbox meetings can be already quite a big deal. Figuring out who is available at which particular time isn’t all that easy. We have seen professionals trying to be everybody’s friend and taking all the agendas of the employees into account. Please don’t do this, it’s not feasible. Make your own plan, it’s best to just plan the meeting and don’t give people the room to renegotiate the time and date. When you agree to this, you will never be able to plan anything as they will constantly be moved about to suit everyone’s needs.
Attendance List
Related to the planning is managing attendees of these toolbox meetings. It is crucial that every employee has had access to the information discussed during the meeting. To guarantee this happens properly, an attendance list can help. It is then easy to see who attended the toolbox meeting and what was discussed.
Regardless of the importance of the attendance list, creating clear overviews of who attended which toolbox meetings in any given year isn’t that straightforward. Big Excel sheets are often to guide the process. This is where Qooling steps in and helps you manage this process with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Missing Toolbox Meeting
When the overviews of the attendees have been created, you need to start to fill in the blanks. Employees can be sick, on holiday or at a different location for work. Despite the reasons, it is your responsibility to make sure every employee has had all the information that was shared. Filling in the missing pieces can be a big pain because you need to invite these people again for a retake of the toolbox meeting. Which means that you end up doing the toolbox meeting at least 2 times, and maybe even more.
The digital toolbox meetings of Qooling allow you to simply distribute the toolbox meeting digitally and add some additional questions. This way the employee can check the toolbox meeting whenever they have the time within a fixed time period. Plus they always have all the historical toolbox meetings right at his/her fingertips. Want to try out the digital toolbox meetings? Click here
