Safety Brief for a regular two day weekend, really?

We don't do a generalized safety brief for a two day weekend at the armory. If there are convoys going out, maintenance ops, etc. we conduct safety briefs for the individuals involved. The leadership within the company practices risk managment throughout the weekend using the chain of command. If Soldiers are going home for the night we'll give a brief on safe driving and code of conduct but nothing crazy. Sunday night same thing - short safety brief with the standard reminders, which can be redundant to hear each month, but it's important to put it out there.

SFC- I need you to form up the troops for their safety brief before we release them for lunch. Do you think they need another one when they get back before they go to work? What if someone has an accident?

Not only do we get the safety briefs, but we also have to check in with our COC everyday that we are not at work, even more to cover your leaderships butt if you do something stupid.

I always though it was a "check the block" kind of thing. Same safety brief every week. The drill really was useless and I'm sure it still is.

The nanny state enlarges.  In the Philippines there were those rapes and you know how like to run with stuff like that.   We had to read the regs pertaining to certain parts of Europe.

They work just as well as safety belt and speed limit and DUI PSAs work.

Most people don't really need a safety brief, but there are always a few people (and many units have more than one) that need to be told not to do stupid things. Honestly how some of those managed to make it to adulthood and then successfully join the military, and survive recruit training. So yes safety briefs even for weekends are necessary. What isn't always necessary is stupid punishments for those that do not screw up. While I was away for 9 months for a deployment, my unit had a few drunk driving incidents, so what did they do? They went and stopped allowing Marines to drink in the barracks, because we all know if you stop drinking at home, you're not going to drive somewhere else to drink then have to decide how to get back home.

I find this topic interesting for the fact that my section holds a safety brief every friday or thursday if its a four day weekend.  My section has not had any issues..... There has been multiple DUI's throughout my unit and I think it comes down to the fact that someone is always going to make poor decisions.  You can have all the call rosters, battle buddy cards, soldiers against drunk driving and the list continues.  The brief to me is a must so someone cant say i never received one.

I gave this one once "Drinking is too important to mix with any other task"

No DUIs during my command.

Honestly Sergeant, I think safety briefs are very effective in the unit I'm in. It's a constant reminder of what he expects us not to do. He will typically tell us the consequences for our negative actions and it gives me that sense of encouragement to not do those things because I don't want to be separated from the army. It also tells me if there is anything new discovered that maybe harmful such as protesters or riots etc that are going on in the area.