Tailgate Safety Meetings

Make every pre-job briefing count in a controlled working environment.

Tailgate Safety Meetings: USA Special Edition TSM's: Nuclear & Controlled Sites provides 45 focused safety meetings for supervisors, contractors, maintenance teams and construction personnel working at U.S. nuclear facilities and controlled sites.

This practical handbook helps meeting leaders turn specialist hazards into clear discussions about the work ahead. Topics connect individual actions with site rules, work authorization, plant protection and the need to stop when conditions change.

Topics include:

• Nuclear safety culture, questioning attitudes and human performance.
• Radiological awareness, ALARA, dosimetry and contamination control.
• Site security, restricted access and sensitive information.
• Work control, isolation, configuration management and foreign material exclusion.
• Outages, decommissioning, emergency response and formal handoff.

Each meeting includes discussion prompts, key hazards, safe working practices, common mistakes, a supervisor checklist, knowledge-check questions with suggested answers, and an attendance record. Across the collection, 225 questions help presenters check understanding and encourage participation.

Use the handbook to prepare briefings, revisit recurring concerns and encourage crews to recognize when specialist advice or additional authorization is needed. Written for the U.S. workplace, it supports safety awareness alongside facility procedures, task-specific assessments and required qualifications.