No better time than the New Year to do a reset on practices, and no better place to start than by upping your game at putting on great safety meetings. The purpose of our NewsFlash is to provide you with examples of stories easily transposed into the method we teach, the Ask – Don’t Tell Method. In this month’s Flash we’ve taken this a step further, providing an example of a topic, as well as the application of the Method.
As a reminder on how the method works:
- Find an interesting and topic: a story or event that is important and relevant to your followers – and determine your purpose in bringing this to their attention.
- A simple “Headline” of the event serves as an opener for your meeting.
- Summarize the event: how you summarize the event will reinforce the purpose, what you would like your Followers to think about and discuss.
- Connect the information to your team: why should they be interested in the subject? Make it personal – to them.
- Ask two or three Darn Good Questions about the topic.
Ask – Don’t Tell Safety Meeting Outline Example
Topic: https://theeagleonline.com.ng/machine-crushes-man-to-death-at-dangote-cement-factory/
Purpose: To raise hazard awareness when performing “simple” tasks.
Purpose: To raise hazard awareness when performing “simple” tasks.
Headline: A Simple Clean Up Job Proves Fatal
Summary: If you think using a shovel to clean up spilled product really can’t be that hazardous, think again. In this tragic case, the product was under a conveyor belt that was moving. When the shovel inadvertently came in contact with the moving belt, it pulled the shovel and the person holding on to it into the equipment, causing a fatal injury.
Connection: Moving equipment is commonplace in industrial operations. So is the seemingly simple task of “housekeeping.”
Darn Good Questions
1. What are the safety procedures that govern simple clean up jobs like this?
2. Hazards can be found in the what – the assigned task – and the where – the location where the task is performed. This is a case of the latter. What do you think is more likely to cause the harm? Why so?
3. How can you prevent something like this from happening to you?
Balmert Consulting
January 2025
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