"Safety Menu" or "Food for Thought"

Battelle Energy Alliance - Idaho National Laboratory

Because a significant number of our employees frequent the company cafeterias, lunch rooms, and break rooms; this situation was determined to be an excellent opportunity to communicate safety information to a "captured audience".

Using the same plastic menu holders, like you would see in a restaurant, we place attractive safety reminders. These safety reminders can include such items as the names of recent safety contest winners, information on up-coming safety meetings, schedules for training, safety messages from management, lessons learned, program reminders, etc.

These plastic holders are located on each of the eating tables. Employees are being educated while they are having lunch or taking a break.

To learn more about this program or to obtain additional information, please contact Bowen Huntsman at (208) 526-0388, or via e-mail at bowen.huntsman@inl.gov

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