OGP Life-Saving Rules

Printers: please print the following page as an A3 tear-away notepad.

This page should be printed as the cover.

Supervisors: Make sure you have the Blocker Pad, and relevant
Workcard and poster for yout toolbox talk

Toolbox Talk Blocker Pad & Supervisor Tips

Question 1.
Why is this rule important and what
incidents have we had related to it?

Question 2.
What must you do to comply with
this rule?

Question 3.
On our site, what are the blockers that
make compliance to this rule
difficult/impossible?

Question 1: Supervisor Tips

Question 2: Supervisor Tips

Question 3: Supervisor Tips

Pose Question 1 to your group

Pose Question 2 to your group

Allow 10 minutes for discussion on Question 2
Summarise what you have heard before
moving to Question 3

Pose Question 3 to your group

Again
Take your time
Encourage everyone to take part

This is an important discussion. So

Get the group to brainstorm about their blockers

Allow 5 minutes for discussion on Question 1

Summarise what you have heard before
moving to Question 2
Split big groups up into smaller
discussion teams
Take your time
Encourage everyone to take part
Find and use real examples of incidents
related to this rule from your site
Link the discussion to real work on site
involving people in the tool box talk

Avoid jumping in with the answers

Push the group to identify as many actions
as possible
Hand out the relevant pocket card when ideas
have run out
Reinforce the compliance message
Recognise the efforts of the group

Allow 20 minutes for discussion on Question 3

Summarise what you have heard before
closing the tool box talk

Use the sheet on the next page to list all blockers

Ensure you give enough time to identify

actions to remove blockers
As the supervisor
After the toolbox talk, you must take a lead in
removing as many of the blockers as you can locally.
Where you cannot, you must escalate the issue to
your manager immediately for their action.

When completed, tear this sheet off. Keep a copy and send one to:
Please circle the relevant rule (left) and below, write the name of the rule being discussed.

OGP Life Saving Rule: ...........................................................

Blockers

Actions to remove each blocker