It can be hard to know where to go for your safety news. Industry-specific magazines, safety organizations and even government bodies do a good job of publishing news articles, industry updates and best practices through their websites’ news sections and newsletters.

But if you’re reading this, that means (in addition to being ridiculously smart and having impeccable taste) you know we also offer a wide variety of topics for our readers that you won’t likely find on other sites. If you’re new to the blog, this top ten list is a good overview of the kind of content you’ll find here.

Here are the top ten blog posts that all our readers engaged with in 2025.

#1 — 12 Toolbox Talks of Holiday Safety

This first post is fitting for the season—it’s set up like the Twelve Days of Christmas song, but adapted as messages of holiday safety instead of gifts (although, we’d like to argue that these holiday safety messages are gifts, and much better ones than in the original song. Seriously, does anyone want or need 23 birds?) This post outlines 12 holiday safety toolbox topics and you won’t find a better list of ideas anywhere else. 

#2 — 4 Often Overlooked Types of New Workers

The next post shifts the focus to new worker safety. Studies show that new hires are at a greater risk of being injured in their first year on the job. But blanket safety measures won’t keep them safe because not all new workers face the same risks. In order to keep this high-risk group of employees safe, it’s important to pay attention to potential sources of injury during the new hire’s onboarding. This post outlines four classes of new workers—and some of the risks that can be specifically challenging for them. 

#3 — 4 Resources to Get Better Safety Performances From Supervisors

It’s much easier to get favorable safety results when you’re working with the right resources. Supervisors are in a position to monitor individual employees’ safety performance and to intervene when necessary. This post outlines four of the best safety resources that safety folks can use as they consider how to get better safety performances from supervisors and workplace leaders.

#4 — 11 Construction Topics to Construct Your Own Toolbox Talks

Finding ready-to-deliver toolbox talks on the internet can be incredibly difficult. But more often than not, when many folks sit down to think of good topics to develop their own toolbox talks, their minds go blank. This post offers eleven ideas specifically geared to the construction industry. 

#5 — Connecting the Dots Between Construction Safety and Labor Trends

In addition to ready-to-use resources, this blog aims to keep readers informed on larger trends as they intersect with safety and human factors. This post is a gateway to an article our Marketing Director, Ray Prest, penned for Occupational Health & Safety magazine titled “Construction Safety in the Atypical Wake of Worker Turnover”. The post (and article) provides advice on what can be done with the continually shrinking labor pool found in the construction industry.

#6 — How to Overcome Resistance to Organizational Change

Change is hard for everyone in any situation. When it comes to organizational change, it’s not surprising that it’s often met with resistance. This post reviews the change curve, how to overcome resistance and six change approaches. There’s a lot of great information packed into this great blog, and it’s no wonder it’s number six on our list.

#7 — A Quick and Dirty Guide to Choosing the Right Ladder

It’s surprising the number of people who choose the wrong ladder for the job. But the fact is, not all ladders are universal for every task and selecting the wrong ladder is the main reason for a large number of ladder incidents. This post breaks down the material, weight and size of ladders to ensure their proper use—a practical guide worth bookmarking and sharing with your colleagues.

#8 — 3 Toolbox Talk Variations for Better Engagement

Even if you have new toolbox talk topics, when they’re consistently presented in the same way, they can become stale. This post introduces three different ways to frame your safety talk in order to get the most engagement. It’s worth a look if you’re aiming for your toolbox talk to be effective—and if you’re here, you’re already ten steps ahead of the people phoning it in by just reading something from the internet. If you put just a little bit more effort, as this post suggests, you’ll get back engagement and retention tenfold. 

#9 — Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Steps to Improve Safety Engagement

You may recognize the words Stop, Collaborate and Listen as the opening to Vanilla Ice’s hit, “Ice Ice Baby”. But SafeStart’s Tim Page-Bottorff turned those three words into a three-step approach to teamwork by looking at the example of a non-emergency chemical spill. The approach can lend itself to any workplace scenario and other soft skills and culture-building leadership techniques can only further enhance this method. 

#10 — 4 Ways Frontline Supervisors Influence Workplace Safety

It’s no secret that frontline supervisors can have a positive effect on workplace safety. But they can also just as easily have a negative effect. This final post on our list outlines four areas that frontline supervisors have within their control (and how they can use these powers for good). Learn how a frontline supervisor’s actions can impact safety.

There were a couple of recurring themes this year in terms of what people were looking for from our blog. From new worker safety to toolbox talk ideas to tips on employee engagement, this top ten barely scratches the surface of the type of content we publish here on a weekly basis. Hopefully you found these posts as inspiring as the first time you read them, or you had a chance to discover their value for the first time. 

Hopefully you’ll join us in reading our new blog posts in 2026 and aim for a year of total safety!