Mining pre-start & toolbox talk topics
Give your production crew a sharp, five-minute safety discussion for the start of shift. Pick your work area and generate a read-aloud brief with discussion questions, controls and stop-work triggers — tuned for load & haul, drill & blast and processing work.
Discussion aid only. Check your workplace procedures, conditions and legal requirements before work. This does not replace a Take 5, JSA/JHA, risk assessment, permit, SOP, training or site instructions.
Quick presets
39 briefs match your selection.
Built for the way mining crews actually meet
A good pre-start is a conversation, not a slide read out at people. Each brief opens with a short, realistic read-aloud that sets a scene your crew will recognise — a changed haul route, a queue backing traffic into a walkway, a fault that only sometimes shows — then hands the floor over with a few open questions. The idea is to get people talking about their own patch of ground today, not last week.
Topic briefs and fictional scenarios — never real incidents
You can mix reviewed topic briefs (evergreen refreshers on line of fire, isolation, ground control, mobile plant and more) with fictional training scenarios. Every fictional scenario is invented and clearly labelled as a training scenario, not a real event, so you get the discussion value of a near-miss story without ever misrepresenting a real one.
Same brief for the whole crew, if you want it
Turn on the daily brief and everyone who opens the same setup gets the same topic for the calendar day — so two supervisors running two pre-starts don't accidentally pick different topics before a shared meeting. Prefer variety? Leave it off and each generate gives you something fresh, avoiding recent repeats automatically.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this a substitute for a JSA or Take 5?
- No. It is a discussion aid to warm up a pre-start or toolbox talk. Always complete your own risk assessment, permit, SOP and site processes for the actual work.
- Are the scenarios based on real incidents?
- No. Scenarios are fictional and clearly labelled as training scenarios. They are modelled on common hazard patterns, not on any specific real event, company or person.
- Does it cost anything or need an account?
- No. It is completely free, needs no sign-up, and runs in your browser — it even keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
Zerdly’s Safety Brief Builder is a discussion aid. It does not replace a Take 5, JSA/JHA, risk assessment, permit, SOP, training or your site’s instructions. Fictional scenarios are invented for training and are clearly labelled; they are not real incidents.