As with all meetings, it is important to start and finish on time. Members will come prepared and the meeting will progress more smoothly when people are not looking at the clock waiting to get back to their regular work.

Another key to a successful meeting is to stay on task. If you begin a side conversation or discuss issues not related to health and safety you will lose your members.

Use a simple agenda to keep things flowing. A suggested agenda could be:

1. Minutes of last meeting approval.
2. Review of unfinished business.
3. Reports.
4. New business.
5. Special sessions or upcoming training.
6. Date, time and place of next meeting.