Tailgate talks are one of the easiest ways to engage your staff and promote a culture of safety. They are specifically designed to be a quick review of safety protocols and techniques your staff have already been trained on as a reminder to keep safety in the forefront of their minds.
Tailgate talks create the opportunity to connect with your entire staff once a week and enable you to not only touch on safety topics, but also to talk about changes in company policies, recognize individual or crew-based achievements, and acknowledge birthdays or other important events.
Here are 5 tips for creating engaging tailgate talks:
Taking 10-15 minutes once a week helps with company culture, staff engagement, and provides a window for crews to mingle with each other.
“Within a month of changing the format for how we were doing the tailgate talks, we saw better staff engagement, more questions being asked, far more sociability between staff that didn't work together often and better performance in the first half of the day.” - Jordan Robertson
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