Onsite job briefs are a valuable last-step planning tool for getting jobs done safely. The quality of a job brief should be determined by the interactions in the meeting itself, and not the finished paperwork. In the newest blog of the series, Bryan Shelton and Ashley Duhon explore some critical behaviors needed in a job brief to improve the quality of the interactions within those meetings. Ashley will identify some behaviors and skills needed from the person facilitating the meeting, and Bryan will discuss some critical leadership behaviors needed by the supervisors and safety professionals to help build and develop those skills.
Transcript: So Ashley, we heard about job briefs. Job briefs are a wildly important task when it comes to safe production. They give workers the ability to understand the job, the hazards associated with the work as well as improve the work plan if it needs to be improved. I know most organizations understand the value of doing job briefs. but they often focus on the paperwork and not the quality of the interaction. In this blog we actually focused on building high quality job briefs. in our blog you discussed some critical behaviors that lead to a higher quality job brief. Tell me about one of the best practices that you wrote about. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for looping me in on this topic. So, I focused in on the meeting itself. And one of the critical behaviors that I discussed in the blog is sharing a compelling message of safety and professionalism over production at the end of the job brief. So, there's a real temptation for facilitators to end meetings with a message that production, speed, and efficiency are all priorities for the day. And production pressure is a real trap, especially with involving business environments and rapidly shifting priorities within an organization. And so these factors lead to an emphasis on speed and therefore inadvertently safety becomes second or third on that priority list. Big time. So, Brian, you wrote about what leaders need to do to facilitate a high-quality job brief. Can you tell me about something that you wrote about? Yeah, absolutely. So one of the things I talked about is just simply coaching. we know behavior needs coaching to improve. So, I focused on what supervisors and what safety professionals can do to provide that coaching. And it really starts with doing an observation to be able to give feedback not on the paperwork but on the quality of that interaction and what the facilitator did to create a high-quality interaction. So Ashley again thanks so much for blogging with me this time and for our audience watching the video please read the blog if you want to learn more.
