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707 Effective OSH Committee Meetings
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Safety Committee Communications

Sender and Receiver

Effective communication is extremely important to a successful safety committee meeting.

Man leading safety committee meeting showing members a chart
We're all senders and receivers at the same time.

The most basic communication theory talks about the requirement for both a sender and a receiver in the communication process.

The characteristics of the sender and receiver may be quite different. However, during the safety committee meeting, at any given instant, the process basically involves people sending communication messages on two basic levels: the content and relationship levels. Let's take a look.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

5-1. In the Two-Level Communications Model, on what two "levels" are messages sent when two people communicate?