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meetings,Woodward is aman of action. And, together with video producers Django and attachment specialist ECY Haulmark, Woodward has set about creating an initial series of video toolbox talks to help ensure greater consistency. “I know frommy training activities that workers engage better with video than they do with someone reading froma script or a PowerPoint presentation, particularly when that person is someone they work with all the time,”Woodward asserts. “So we set out to create a series of short two to fourminute videos to enhance worker engagement and to help reinforce a number of key safetymessages.” The first films cover subjects as diverse as respiratory protective equipment, First Aid, TrafficManagement, Pollution and general safety Issues.Woodward says that he also has plans to extend the library of titles and, if there is sufficient demand, will alsomake bespoke and branded videos for individual contractors addressing their own specific needs. In typically altruistic style,Woodward ismaking the initial 12 videos available free of charge. They will be available on YouTube and offered as a free download for demolition companies to use as they see fit. Woodward also has plans tomake themavailable inMP3 audio format so workers can even listen to themin the car. “Obviously, themain aimof these videos is that they will be used to enhance weekly toolbox talks that are already taking place on sites up and down the country. But as companies like Erith have proved, behavioural safety is the key tomaintaining site safety levels. And to achieve that, safety needs to become a way of life, not just something you worry about when you arrive on site each day,” he concludes. “Bymaking these toolbox talk videos available online, everyone can check themat any time. If a single operative looks at one of these films on YouTube and works in a safermanner as a result, the toolbox talk videos will have been a success.”


All the Toolbox Talk videos can be viewed on the dedicated YouTube channel http://tinyurl.com/bae4x48. To request a FREE download of any or all of the videos, please email John Woodward: john.woodward@demolishdismantle.co.uk


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