Whether you are required to hold them or not, safety meetings are critical to protecting your workers and your company from the many risks encountered in the field, shop, your vehicles and yards every day.“We have to counteract the contractor’s desire to get the job done,” says Joel Levitt, author and director of international projects at Life Cycle Engineering. “The goal of safety meetings is to increase people’s consciousness.”For the last 30 years, Levitt has provided training in the maintenance and engineering fields for more than 3,000 organizations in 25 countries. He has written more than 150 articles and 10














