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The Jenkins Report — October 20, 2026

The first weekly workplace safety edition: OSHA excavation allegations, CSB recommendation follow-up, proposed rules, a pending OSHRC case, safety-data updates and practical checks.

How to Conduct a Workplace Incident Investigation

Learn how to conduct a workplace incident investigation using evidence, timelines, interviews, control analysis, and corrective actions that address underlying conditions.

Root Cause Analysis vs. Learning From Events

Learn the strengths and limits of root cause analysis and how learning from events can reveal multiple contributing conditions, control weaknesses, and how work actually happens.

5 Whys Alternatives for Safety Investigations

Explore practical alternatives to the 5 Whys for safety investigations, including barrier analysis, change analysis, cause mapping, bow-ties, fault trees, and Learning Teams.

How to Interview Employees After a Workplace Incident

Learn how to interview employees after a workplace incident using open-ended questions, neutral language, timely interviews, and evidence-based follow-up.

What Is Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)?

Learn what Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) means, its five principles, and how HOP changes safety, investigations, leadership, and organizational learning.

The Five Principles of HOP Explained

Learn the five principles of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), what each means, and how leaders can apply them to safety and everyday work.

How Learning Teams Improve Workplace Safety

Learn how Learning Teams improve workplace safety by helping organizations understand normal work, adaptations, controls, and the conditions employees actually face.

Why Human Error Is Not a Root Cause

Learn why human error is usually an insufficient root-cause conclusion and how safety investigations can examine context, controls and organizational conditions instead.

How Safety Professionals Can Use ChatGPT

Learn how safety professionals can use ChatGPT for investigations, JSAs, toolbox talks, training, data analysis and communication while maintaining human judgment and verification.

10 ChatGPT Prompts for Safety Professionals

Copy and adapt 10 practical ChatGPT prompts for safety professionals covering JSAs, investigations, toolbox talks, regulations, Learning Teams, data and procedures.

Using AI to Write Better Toolbox Talks

Learn how safety professionals can use AI and ChatGPT to create more relevant toolbox talks built around real work, verified requirements, critical controls and worker discussion.

Can AI Help With Job Safety Analysis?

Learn how AI and ChatGPT can assist with Job Safety Analysis by structuring tasks, identifying questions, challenging controls and supporting field verification without replacing professional judgment.

What Is OSHA? A Practical Introduction to Workplace Safety and Health

Learn what OSHA does, how it differs from the OSH Act, who it covers, and the basics of employer responsibilities and worker rights.

What Is an OSHA Competent Person? Knowledge, Authority, and Responsibility

Learn what makes an OSHA competent person, how the role differs from a qualified person, and why hazard recognition and corrective authority both matter.

How to Read OSHA Standards: A Practical Guide

Learn how to read OSHA standards, decode CFR citations, check scope and definitions, and apply requirements in context.

How to Conduct a Job Safety Analysis: A Practical Introduction

Learn how to break work into steps, identify hazards, select controls, and review a JSA with your crew.

Pre-Job JHA/JSA: What Changed Today?

Use this free JHA/JSA toolbox talk to review today’s changes, verify controls before work, discuss stop triggers, and record crew attendance.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Line of Fire: Swing Radius & Suspended Loads

Free one-page line of fire toolbox talk. Verify crane boundaries, load routes and signals, with separate supervisor checks and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Rigging: Before the Load Moves

Use this free rigging toolbox talk to check load information, gear condition, configuration and landing plans before lifting. Includes separate crew records.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Fall Prevention: Verify the Controls

Free one-page fall protection toolbox talk with practical checks for edges, equipment, clearance and rescue. Separate supervisor and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Ladder Safety: Choose, Inspect, Set Up

Free ladder safety toolbox talk covering selection, condition, support and safe access. Print the one-page talk and separate supervisor check and sign-in sheet.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Electrical & Extension-Cord Checks

Check cords, routing and required electrical protection before use. Free one-page toolbox talk with separate supervisor verification and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Heat: Conditions Change, Controls Change

Free heat safety toolbox talk. Check water, recovery, workload, acclimatization and emergency readiness, with separate supervisor and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Respiratory Hazards: Know What You’re Breathing

Identify airborne hazards and verify capture, ventilation and required respiratory protection. Free one-page talk with separate checks and attendance.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Eye & Face Protection

Match eye and face protection to the task and verify fit, condition and compatibility. Free one-page talk plus separate supervisor and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Hand Tools: Condition, Selection & Line of Fire

Free one-page hand tool safety talk. Verify tool condition, work support and cutting or striking paths, with separate supervisor and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Housekeeping Is a Control

Treat housekeeping as a safety control. Free one-page talk on usable routes, stable storage and safe cleanup, with separate field check and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.

Hazard Communication: Labels, SDS & the Task

Free hazard communication toolbox talk. Match labels to SDSs, prove information access and verify task controls, with separate supervisor and attendance sheets.

Supporting documents: free with sign-up.