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Let’s all
DAILY ACTIVITY BRIEFINGS AND TOOL BOX get home safely,
TALKS every day

DAB’S MUST BE PLANNED AND DETAILED PRIOR TO DELIVERY. IT IS ONLY BY SPENDING TIME
PREPARING THE BRIEFING THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT THE INFORMATION IS CORRECTLY
COMMUNICATED.
Sites are to hold a daily coordination meeting at a time specified by the Project Manager. This will
be attended by all supervisors delivering briefings.

Site teams will discuss the following days activities, the risks and potential changes on site. This
allows the supervisors in attendance to take notes and in turn develop the daily briefing they will
deliver the following morning.

Workers whose first language is not English must be able to demonstrate they have a basic
understanding of both written and spoken English.

Assign an English-speaking worker who can translate and communicate to a group of workers
(maximum of four in a group).

Daily activity briefings are critical
in ensuring our operatives go to
work fully informed of the risks and
controls for the task they are SPECIFIC DETAILS COMMUNICATED TO THE TEAM
assigned. Briefings must be MUST BE RECORDED IN THIS SECTION OF THE DAB’S
delivered in a clear and concise FORM ALONG WITH ANY FEED BACK RECEIVED FROM
fashion and operatives should be OPERATIVES.
engaged at the end of the
session with open questions to
ensure that they fully understand.

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