Save Time And Money With Online Health And Safety Talks

Health and safety talks are important for any business.

There are many benefits to toolbox talks, they can even help you comply with legal requirements, but I bet you didn't think that one of those benefits is saving you money.

Yes, health and safety can save you money.

Because when your team is more health and safety aware, they work more safely, and you are less likely to be exposed to the hidden costs of accidents at work.

So if you already deliver health and safety talks at work, you're probably already saving money.

But toolbox talks take time and effort to put in place.

You'll need to pick a health and safety topic, research the topic, plan your talk, write your talk, get your team together, and deliver your talk.

And not every business has a dedicated health and safety team available to create toolbox talks.

That's why we created our talks plan membership.

With online health and safety talks, you can take a talk at the click of a button. And that saves you the time and cost associated with preparing a talk yourself.

If you deliver health and safety talks daily, we calculate that with online toolbox talks, you can save over £500 and 40 hours per year, per user, compared to preparing and delivering talks in person.

These savings include time and associated wages saved compared to preparing, delivering talks, and recording results in person at a physical location.

If you have a team of 10, that's a saving of £5000 and 400 hours each year. And those savings get bigger as your team grows.

If that sounds too good to be true, let's take a closer look at those cost and time savings.

Cost savings

We've estimated you can save at least £2 per person per talk by moving your health and safety talks online.

And that's just for the talk delivery, don't forget you'll also cut out the time and costs of preparing the talk.

You'll no longer need to get your team together in one physical location to take the talk. You'll no longer need to have someone be able to deliver the talk in person. Workers will no longer waste time waiting around for other people to arrive before the talk can start.

You should save at least 10 minutes per person, which is a cost saving of at least £2 per person.

If you carry out daily toolbox talks, or around 250 safety talks per year, that's a saving of £500!

If you deliver health and safety talks twice a week, that's a saving of around £200 per year, per worker.

If you carry out weekly toolbox talks, you'll save around £100 per worker.

Our calculations are based on the minimum wage and do not include costs of transport, location, or higher wages. Where these are applicable, for example, if you pay above the minimum wage, and/or people have to travel or move to a different location to receive your health and safety talks, increased savings can be made.

Time savings

We've estimated you can save at least 10 minutes per person per talk by moving your health and safety talks online.

Toolbox talks should only take around 5 minutes to complete. Your talks should be short and stay focused on a single health and safety topic.

And that might sound quick and simple. But meetings can be a time suck - no matter how short they are.

Not everyone will be ready on time. Not everyone will be in the same place. And this is especially true on a busy construction site, where your team might be spread out across the site, working on different tasks and activities.

You'll save at least 2 hours per talk by skipping the preparation time. But we also expect you'll save at least 10 minutes per person, ongoing, by switching to online delivery for your health and safety talks.

Workers no longer need to remember what time the talk is. They don't have to stop what they are doing at that specific time and make their way to the meeting room or site office. They don't have to wait for other people to arrive. They can simply pick up their phone or tablet, or use their computer, and take the talk at a time that works best for them.

And you no longer need to take a register or keep a manual log of who attended what talk. Or pass around quiz sheets or questionnaires to check if workers understand the topic.

With online toolbox talks, a quick multiple-choice quiz can be completed at the end of the talk, and workers will get a score and a report card for their toolbox talk results.

Which means you'll save time recording results too.

And if you need to know who has completed which talks, you'll have easy access to that information too.

You should save at least 10 minutes per person, per talk.

If you carry out daily toolbox talks, or around 250 safety talks per year, that's a saving of over 40 hours. That's a full working week!

If you deliver health and safety talks twice a week, that's a saving of over 16 hours per year, per worker. That's two working days.

If you carry out weekly toolbox talks, you'll still save around 8 hours per worker, or at least one working day!

However regularly you carry out toolbox talks, you'll save a significant amount of time by switching to online delivery.

If you are ready to switch to online toolbox talks for your business, check out the Talks Plan membership, and get your first 10 team members free. Alternatively, you can download pre-prepared toolbox talk documents and save time on your health and safety talk creation.