So often in safety meetings and job briefings, the communication comes from one active participant to others who are all passive. A foreman runs a safety meeting and talks about this or that while half the attendees are barely paying attention. During a job briefing, the speaker rambles a bit, and people tune him out.
Imagine a safety meeting or a job briefing in which each person is responsible for sharing some aspect of the information — or, if that is impractical, a member or two of the crew handles part of the presentation.
For example, Foreman Frank is in charge of the job, so per NFPA 70E 110.1(I), he must provide a job briefing. This is not something he can do without preparing for it. Preparation takes time. So, he tells Aaron and Bob to write up a list of the individual tasks involved; they will inform the group about these tasks at the job briefing, and Frank will assign the tasks. Frank then tells Charlie and Dan they need to review all the work procedures involved and identify the special precautions. They will describe these at the meeting.
Foreman Frank will handle all the other aspects of the job briefing, and he will review with these guys what they intend to present before the briefing takes place.
Of course, these four crew members are being pulled off tools to do this work, so no time is really saved versus having Frank do it all. The benefit here is there are four more people who are much more engaged than they otherwise would be. It can help to rotate duties around. Maybe next time, Aaron and Erica will write up a list of the individual tasks involved while Charlie and Harry review the work procedures.
