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A Safety Moment is, well a moment where you just stop what you are doing and take a moment to think or talk about a safety issue. Whether it be at work or in your personal life a safety moment makes you Stop, Think and then Act instead of first act and then have to stop because something (unexpected) happened.
At work Safety Moments can be used at the beginning of a meeting to create awareness. One member of the team addresses in a few minutes a safety topic which is applicable or typical for their work situation. It could be a personal experience at work, it could be a new safety related procedure that is introduced at work, it could be an event that happened at another company which could just as easily happen at their work place.
A Safety Moment should be a short talk about a relevant situation at work that if not done safely can lead to an accident. Safety moments should be to the point, explain the problem, give an example, and then the solution. Don’t talk generic safety. Don’t say for example “We should all behave safe at work”. Make it a very specific, to the point topic. For example “When you enter the factory floor always where your safety glasses”.
Safety moments should also be relevant. Keep the topic close to your work situations. What is relevant might not always be expected. For example for a job in the desert the project management explained “Take enough water with you and drink regularly to avoid dehydration” . This is very relevant, no matter what kind of job you carry out in the desert.
Make sure to keep the moment short. A Safety Moment should be 2-5 minutes but not much longer. Don’t make it a speech.
Safety moment is a moment where a person or a worker have ability to find risk, hazard associated with his work and act accordingly. The only way to make safety awareness towards safety is the making management commitment towards safety and conducting proper awareness programs The top management person should be a role model towards the safety and the HSE department should be reputed towards the work.
It should involve planning, action, and communication of the specific idea concerned related to environmental, health, & safety its logic, and how it will benefit people. It should involve short-term and long-term measures.
A safety moment is a short workplace talk focusing on safety on the job or in daily life, Safety moments are often used in work environments that may present risk to workers. They are designed to remind employees about safe practices and issues related to safety.
The safety moment that I know is a brief discussion before meeting proper of a high level meeting. Usually it is pre assigned among regular attendees. So when it is the turn of an attendee to give safety moment then that person will share a topic related to HSSE.
A small duration activity basically dealing with the work zone assessment in terms of safety aspacts:
a quick risk analysis & operational control procedures in place to mitigate the risks involved.
