Safety meeting is the right time to discuss about health and safety related matters in the workplace. Safety meeting can be held regularly or incidentally as a response on occurrence of a specific health and safety problem or after an incident or accident happens.

Ideally, safety meeting focuses on just one specific topic. But, what kind of topics do we have to discuss? Here are some topics that you can use in the safety meeting:

1. Safety policy
2. Applicable safety regulations
3. Compliance status on safety regulations
4. New safety regulation
5. Incident and accident investigation
6. Safety audit findings
7. OHSAS 18001 surveillance findings
8. Safety patrol finding
9. Personal protective equipments
10. Eye protection
11. Hearing protection
12. Hand and foot injuries
13. Risk assessment for new plant facility
14. On-way traffic control in the plant site
15. Pressure vessel regular testing
16. Working around electricity
17. Emergency response procedure
18. Construction safety
19. Working in a confined space
20. Lockout and tag-out programs
21. Heat stress
22. Hazards identification or recognition
23. How to read Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
24. How to handle compressed gas safely
25. Hazardous material preservation and handling
26. Slips, trips and falls
27. Near miss incident reporting
28. Fire extinguisher usage
29. Safety precaution in case of fire
30. Maintenance of fire fighting equipments
31. Safety control for the transformer yard
32. Fire fighting placement and location indication
33. Self-inspection system
34. Chemical exposure control
35. Safety training program
36. Gas cylinder control and protection
37. Hazardous material symbol and label implementation
38. Loss control report issued by plant insurance company
39. Safety work permit system
40. Truck driver safety

It had better to provide schedule for every safety meeting, especially for regular safety meeting. Don’t forget to file them when you have finished using the materials. Later you will need those files.

I believe the list above does not cover all the chemical plant safety related topics. Your input and feed back would be very valuable and I will add it to the list.