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Toolbox Talks Electronic Age


C&D Consultancy has taken the bold decision to produce a


series of video toolbox talks to improve the consistency and quality of these vital health and


safety briefings. Mark Anthony reports.


The toolbox talk – the weekly pre-start health and safety briefing endured by demolition workers across the land – is asmuch a part of the industry landscape as bacon sandwiches,muddy boots and bad language. Done correctly, the toolbox talk is amajor contributor to site safety; a final reminder of the potential risks and hazards thatmight otherwise befall an unsuspecting worker. Done badly, and they aremerely a pre-work tea break interrupted; a lost opportunity to reinforce key safetymessages. The inconsistency of toolbox talks is something that has troubled former Institute of Demolition Engineers’ president JohnWoodward for some time. But while othersmight requiremarket research, working parties, consultations and innumerable


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