Publications

Tool Box Talks Online

This online version of Toolbox talks is user-friendly and handy for instant access through our online portal, GOLD (Gateway to online learning and development). The 2013 edition has been refreshed and updated to improve the user's experience, whilst retaining the core functionality. The enhanced design features easy-to-use and understand improved navigation controls and includes a full search facility. Subscription is for full access for 12 months, and you will always have access to the most up-to-date edition.
It now also contains access to films of three toolbox talks being delivered by site personnel on a live site and a short product demonstration film on how to use GT 700. Watching these toolbox talks being prepared and delivered in different styles will help supervisors to gain the confidence they need to prepare and deliver their own talks.
Toolbox talks are an important method of both delivering advice on matters of health, safety and the environment, and to stimulate discussions, to obtain feedback, thus helping to maintain and improve standards.
It helps trainers who are responsible for delivering toolbox talks courses for managers, who in turn will be delivering toolbox talks to operatives on site. It has been designed to assist supervisors at all levels to prepare and deliver effective toolbox talks on building and construction sites, along with some useful hints and tips.
The content has been reviewed and updated. Also included is a briefing record that can be copied, along with a log to record the toolbox talks you have delivered and a feedback form. It also contains additional supporting photographs and icons to help emphasise key points.
It has been designed to follow the same structure and chapter layout as Site supervision simplified (GE 706), which means it is now quicker and easier for a supervisor to cross-reference and prepare for a toolbox talk.
GT 700 and the supporting GE 706, are the official reference materials for CITB-ConstructionSkills' Site Safety Plus Site Supervisors' Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS), a two-day course for first line managers and supervisors.
To ensure that you are able to access and use this product you can log into GOLD as a guest user and open a taster version of this product, which includes two sample talks. If you can access the taster version of the product you will be able to access the full version. Please visit GOLD and click on guest access.
Please note that you are unable to print a full chapter or cut/copy and paste text, but there is the facility to print two pages as required. For those requiring a hard copy version, GT 700/13 is most appropriate. GT 700 is also available on CD-ROM. It is part of a catalogue of CITB-ConstructionSkills health, safety and environment publications. For the full range of publications offered visit the CITB-ConstructionSkills website.
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Contents of Toolbox talks

Section A: Legal duties - What they mean to you; CDM regulations - What they mean to you; Site set up and security; Company health and safety policies - What they mean to you; Personal competence; Risk assessments and method statements; Young people on site; Worker engagement; Fairness, inclusion and respect - Your responsibilities; Fairness, inclusion and respect - Health, work and wellbeing; Fairness, inclusion and respect - Respect; Fairness, inclusion and respect - Acceptable language; Accident and incident reporting.

Section B: Welfare arrangements, including personal hygiene; General health and wellbeing; First aid; Needlestick injuries; Skin protection; Sun protection; Weil's disease; Alcohol and drugs; Asbestos; Dust and fumes; Silica dust; Noise; Hand-arm vibration; COSHH; Lead, lead paint and lead dust.

Section C: Personal protective equipment; Eye protection; Respiratory protection; Portable, handheld electrical tools; Cartridge-operated tools; Woodworking machines; Abrasive wheels; Compressed gas tools; Diamond blades; Electricity on site; Plant and equipment; Mobile plant; Site transport and pedestrian segregation; Mobile elevating work platforms; Fire; LPG and other compressed gases; Petrol and diesel; Checks and inspections.

Section D: Manual handling; Material storage; Slips, trips and falls; Work at height; Ladders and stepladders; Low-level access equipment (trestles, podiums and hop ups); Mobile towers and access equipment; Working on scaffolds; Fall arrest and suspension equipment; Working over safety nets or soft-landing systems; Excavations; Buried services; Confined spaces; Lifting operations; Lifting equipment and accessories; Hoists and hoist towers; Signallers and slingers.

Section E: Wildlife; Invasive plants; Being a good neighbour; Environmental nuisance; Cement, concrete and plaster; Fuel and oil; Pumping, over-pumping and washing down plant; Emergency spill control; Energy and water efficiency; Working around trees and hedgerows; Waste.

Section F: Piling; Road and street works; Trackside safety; Demolition safety; Hydro demolition; Steel erection; Water jetting.