Toolbox Talks
Toolbox Talks safety briefings are an easy and efficient way to keep your construction worker employees safe.
What are Toolbox Talks?
These brief meetings offer an opportunity for team members to learn about potential hazards and preventive measures, as well as a chance for the employer to review safety regulations. They are a great way to ensure that everyone is aware of the safety protocols that must be adhered to in order to prevent accidents and injuries on the job site.
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Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Resources
Date Posted: 09/18/2020
Mental health and suicide prevention are important elements of worker health. Learn about the resources that are available to both workers and employers.
Respectful Workplace
Date Posted: 04/21/2020
Creating a respectful workplace is the cornerstone for the success and continued growth of a company. Respectful workplaces create safer jobsites, healthier company cultures and increased productivity.
Suicide and Mental Health
Date Posted: 04/21/2020
A suicide in the US occurs every twelve minutes and can affect anyone. Suicide among construction industry workers is one of the highest rates in the country.
Building a Safety Culture
Date Posted: 09/23/2016
Safety culture is the way in which safety is managed in the workplace, and reflects the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employers and employees share in relation to safety. Every organization has a safety culture. The question is whether the safety culture is what we want it to be. If the culture is not what we want it to be, what can we do to change it.
Sexual Harassment
Date Posted: 08/27/2016
Do you have nude pictures in your workplace? Tell dirty jokes? Make suggestive remarks to other employees? If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be guilty of sexual harassment. Since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the development of guidelines by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1980, sexual harassment is considered to be a form of sex discrimination-a Federal offense.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Date Posted: 08/02/2016
Workplace violence causes a significant number of deaths and injuries in Washington and throughout the country. In 2010, workplace violence was the third leading cause of workplace deaths in Washington State.
The following provides preventive measures that can be established at your workplace to deal with threatening, intimidating, and/or potentially violent behavior: