For workers who use or work near machines: how moving parts injure, how guards work, and why a guard is never removed or bypassed.
Moving parts of machinery can entangle, crush, shear, cut and throw out material. Guarding is one of the most effective controls for machinery, and many serious injuries happen when a guard was missing, removed for a quick job, or bypassed to keep production going.
This talk covers the hazards of moving parts, the types of guard and what each does, pre-start checks, never removing or bypassing a guard, isolating before clearing a jam, and reporting damaged or missing guards.
After the session, participants will be able to:
Yes. The slides, handout and guide are editable, and the facilitator guide marks the places to add your own procedures, contacts and photos of your workplace.
No. It is there if your business wants a record that each worker understood the key points. The attendance record on its own shows who attended and when.
Yes. Presentations, guides, workbooks and templates are supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them to your workplace. The copyright notice must stay.
Yes. The hazards and the controls in each toolbox talk apply in any workplace. The duties slide and the facilitator guide's "check before you deliver" table refer to Australian WHS and OHS laws, licences and standards, so a business elsewhere should swap those for its own country's rules. Everything is editable.
Yes. The package includes an editable certificate template, an attendance record (Word, plus an Excel register) and an optional 10-question multiple-choice assessment with an answer key, so you can record who attended and, if you choose, that each worker understood the key points. It is a certificate of completion issued by your business, not a nationally recognised qualification.
Yes. The packages are designed for face-to-face sessions and work over a video meeting platform. The facilitator guide notes where an activity needs adjusting for online delivery.
Yes, as many times as you like, for your own organisation's workers.
Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not affected. See the Refund Policy for how we handle a package that is faulty, not as described, or not what you ordered.
You keep the version you bought for as long as you use it, and corrections to that version are made available to you. A new edition, for example following a significant change in the law, may be sold separately.
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For workers who clean, clear, maintain or adjust plant: why every energy source must be isolated, locked and proved dead before hands go in.
For workers who lift, push, pull, carry or hold: what makes a manual task hazardous, and why changing the task works better than lifting technique.
For workers around noisy plant, tools or processes: how noise damages hearing for good, how to tell when it is too loud, and the controls that protect it.
All 28 toolbox talk awareness packages in one purchase: a year of toolbox talks and more.