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When he noticed some persistent safety issues during his time at National Grid, McCallan conducted an analysis of SIF data that spanned a 10-year period. Through this research, he found that 50 % of safety incidents had a deficiency in the job briefing. In each case, the job briefing wasn’ t written down, it wasn’ t discussed or it never happened.
Once he discovered the issue, he got safety advocates from across the organization to look at the job briefings. The results were overwhelming. From that initial analysis, McCallan was able to implement new job safety briefing processes that detailed critical tasks and got more workers involved in the conversation.
Kate Nichols, corporate health, safety and industrial hygiene manager at Georgia Power agreed. She had found that the most effective job safety briefings explain why something is a hazard and why it needs a control.“ Those conversations are great when someone says‘ because’ or‘ we do this
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