Safety week game
A safety talk the whole crew plays.
Crowdboard puts a game-show board on a TV or a shared screen. Two teams guess the most popular answers, buzzing in from their own phones. Write the questions about your own site and your own rules, and a safety briefing turns into a game people talk about afterwards.
Free for up to 6 phones. No card needed.
Why a game works for safety
Everyone takes part
Not only the people at the front. Every phone can buzz in, two teams play against each other, and the whole room shouts answers.
About your own site
Write questions about your own hazards, rules and near misses. Or type a topic such as “working at height” and Claude drafts a game for you to check and change before anyone sees it.
Hear what the crew thinks
Ask the room a question like “Name a hazard you see every week”. Everyone answers on their phone, and the most common answers become the next round, with points from the real counts.
Start before the day
Send a survey link ahead of safety week. The crew’s own answers become the board, so the game is built from what people really said.
Short enough for a briefing
Three rounds take about ten minutes, so a game fits the start of a shift, a toolbox talk or the end of a safety meeting.
Kept clean
A phone can’t join with a rude name, and rude answers start off the board for the host to check, so nothing embarrasses anyone on the big screen.
Ready in three steps
Sign in on the host’s laptop. Everything else runs in a web browser.
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Write or draft the questions
In the host deck, write questions with their answers, or make a game from a topic and check every answer. Mix in a round of everyday survey questions to warm the room up.
- 2
Put the board on a screen
Any TV or projector with a web browser will do, or share the board in a video call for crews on other sites.
- 3
Let the phones buzz
Players scan the code on the board with their phone camera, type a name and pick a team. No app and no accounts.
Questions to ask your crew
Ask one of these in the game with Ask the room, or in a survey before the day. There are no answers here on purpose: the crew’s own answers make the board.
- Name something you check before starting a job.
- Name a piece of protective equipment people forget.
- Name a place at work where people slip or trip.
- Name something that distracts people while driving.
- Name a reason people skip a safety step.
- Name something you’d find in a first-aid kit.
- Name a sound that tells you something is wrong.
- Name a word you always hear at a safety briefing.
Tips from the host’s side
Turn a near miss into a question
A real near miss from last month, told as a question, sticks better than a slide. Leave out names.
Talk about the board
When a surprising answer turns up, stop and ask the room why people said it. That conversation is the safety talk.
Mix the shifts
Put day and night shifts, office and site, on the same team. People learn what the other side worries about.
Keep the prize small
A coffee for the winning team is plenty. The point is that everyone remembers the answers.
Questions hosts ask
Does it replace safety training?
No. It’s a way to refresh what people know and to start a conversation. Your training, procedures and records stay as they are.
How many people can play?
Any number of people can watch and shout answers. Up to 6 phones can buzz in on Free, 20 on Pro and 40 on Team.
Can crews on other sites join?
Yes. Share the board in Teams, Zoom or Meet, and they buzz in from their own phones, which show the board too. See team games over a video call.
Will it work on our site’s network?
Usually with no changes, and phones can use mobile data. To be sure, open Check a network there a few days before, and send your IT team the short list if the network filters web traffic.
Can players use another language?
Players’ phones and the TV work in English and Arabic, and a question can carry both, so a mixed crew plays one game.
What does it cost?
Free covers up to 6 phones and 3 games drafted from a topic a month. Pro takes 20 phones and keeps a report of every game for whoever runs safety week. Team takes 40 phones and 5 hosts.
Your safety week, sorted.
Start a free game now, or see it all on one screen first.