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Safety Meeting Notes or Minutes

Safety meetings, committees and crew meetings

Worker participation on safety committees or in safety meetings can strengthen your safety

culture and help you prevent costly workplace injuries.

This optional form can be customized and used for meeting with safety committees or crews.

In Washington State, a safety committee is required when you have 11 or more employees

Company Name

Work Area or Job Site

Date

on one or more work shifts (exception: construction and agriculture must hold safety crew

meetings instead of having a safety committee). The committee determines how often they

need to meet per WAC 296-800-13020(1) ( ).

Attendees:

If you don’t have a safety committee, you are required to hold safety meetings at least

monthly or more often if required by applicable rules. For example, crew safety meetings for

construction work must be held at the beginning of every job and at least weekly after that.

Tips for effective meetings

1. Safety topics discussed:

Get prepared. Pick safety topics that are

Cover any required applicable items listed

relevant to the current job. Ideas can come

in rules, such as:

from observations made during a recent safety

Construction, WAC 296-155-110(6)

walk-around of the work area or job site.

Agriculture, WAC 296-307-033

Be creative. You can include resources

2. Follow-up on recent accidents, injuries, near misses (if applicable):

like safety handouts and short videos

that offer compelling, real-life stories and

General industry, WAC 296-800-13025(2)

important injury prevention tips. Search the

A-Z list of safety and health topic pages at

Note attendees and topics. Documentation

for materials.

is required and useful for your company’s

Make it active. Consider whether hands-on

safety program. An optional Safety Meeting

3. Recent safety issues identified or reported (if applicable):

activities like demonstrations on how to

Notes form is provided as a ready-to-

safely select, inspect and use equipment

use tool that can be customized to your

can work for some meetings.

company’s needs.

Download the letter-sized form at

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