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Grit works in the gizzard, not the crop. The food has to go through the crop before it can reach the gizzard further on, and get ground up there. So it is possible to have a crop impaction that is bad enough nothing reaches the gizzard to get ground up by the grit-- not very common, but...

For most chickens, that is all you need to do. But things stuck in the crop will never reach the gizzard to get ground up, so grit only works if things keep moving. An impacted crop seems to be fairly rare (once per many hundreds or thousands of chickens). But with so many people having...

Chickens can get an impacted crop from shavings, but they can also block their crop with a tangle of hay. Most chickens will be fine with either bedding choice. A few stupid ones can have problems no matter what you give them.

Those should be safe. If you have newly-hatched chicks, I would use something else for the first few days, something the chicks cannot eat while they are learning what food is. Paper towels work well for that, and so do puppy pads (sold for puppies to pee on.) Newspapers are too slippery...