Workers sitting on a high steel beam beside a modern safety adviser. We’ve always done it this way. A familiar phrase. A poor safety plan.

FREE RESOURCES

Take something useful away

Free posters and visual prompts from Peter Bushnell. Pick a topic, download the image and use it to get people talking.

A little humour and a memorable example can open a useful conversation. Relate each poster to the people, equipment and work in front of you.

More ways to start a conversation

Who’s moved the teabags?

Home and workplace comparison: explain policies, procedures and changes. Who’s moved the teabags?
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What familiar example could help your team understand a working procedure?

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A managers’ time exercise

Managers’ exercise: list who is involved, what they do, how long it takes and what work waits.
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Choose a scenario. List the people, tasks and estimated time. Keep person-hours separate from elapsed time and avoid double counting.

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Just Fly The Plane

Microlight lesson: keep doing the essential work. Just Fly The Plane.
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Which essential job needs your attention while everything else is competing for it?

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Through the fire exit—then what?

Illustrated tabletop exercise: questioning a plan that sends wet swimmers outside into snow.
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How does your assessed emergency plan work for the people actually using the building? Read the full account alongside this illustration.

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Toolbox talks that stick: illustrated comparisons about warnings, deliberate actions and shared awareness.

TOOLBOX TALK POSTER

Toolbox talks that stick

Three visual conversation starters: warnings and horns, deliberate second actions, and awareness around vehicles.

Start a conversation: What do these examples make you notice about our workplace?

A web of incident consequences linking immediate impact, lost production, investigation, health, administration and longer-term costs.

DISCUSSION POSTER

How much does an incident cost?

An incident can affect people, time, production, investigations and the wider organisation. This poster opens up the conversation about the less obvious consequences.

Start a conversation: Which costs and consequences would we otherwise overlook?

Safety does not happen by accident: workplace illustration of a team briefing, guarded machinery and inspections.

AWARENESS POSTER

Safety doesn’t happen by accident

A visual reminder that protection takes more than rules: people talking, looking, checking and working together.

Start a conversation: What does protection look like in the work we do every day?

Keep the conversation going

Have an example, a question or a subject you would like covered? Email Peter.