How Easily Can A Visitor or New Employee Find Their Way Around Your Site? As a safety speaker, I have the opportunity to visit many different work locations each year. Fortunately, my clients have me back year after year to do an entirely different presentation so I become familiar with their location. The challenge is […]

Are Your Safety Messages Consistent? I’m riding to Southern California on the Amtrak San Joaquin as we approach the next train station along the way. A few minutes from the station, the conductor announces the next stop and encourages people to gather their belongings because it will be a quick stop. This little announcement continues […]

An Emerging Reason Employees Should Want To Work Safely The opening to my presentation, Ensure Your Safety is the question, “Why do you want to work safely?” As a safety speaker I find opening with a question is a way to begin audience involvement. I hear many answers such as: “For my family.” “So I […]

Know Your Performance Results Earlier this year I had the privilege of being the safety speaker for the second year in a row for the Imperial Oil Hauler of the Year Event. They give me the afternoon to share communication skills that will help each of the hauling companies improve their already great safety performance. […]

How Pervasive Is Safety In Your Life? This is a great question to ask your employees. This is one of those questions that you ask to stimulate thought. You aren’t looking for an answer out loud you are looking for an answer in their head. Share with them that their response can tell them how […]

Train Ride For Safety As I write this I am riding Amtrak south through the Central Valley of California. In a couple of hours I will arrive in Bakersfield and meet my son John who is driving home to spend some time with his friends this weekend. The reason for my trip is two fold. […]

In my last blog I talked about planning ahead for emergency situations. In writing that article I realized how much we depend on technology these days. The danger is when we take something for granted. Then when it is gone we are hopeless without it. As a safety speaker my iPhone is vital to my […]

Backup Plans – A New Perspective As a safety speaker I get to spend many days traveling and fortunately I enjoy it. This is a good safety topic to share with your employees that will help them remain safe when they are on a business trip or help keep their family safe when away from […]

What Is A Blog? And Why Would I Care?According to Merriam Webster: Definition of BLOG: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the contents of such a siteIn my case, you can find my blog at the bottom of the home […]

Never Pre-Qualify to the Negative What he meant was you should never (and I do mean NEVER) begin a safety talk or presentation with a negative comment about that speech or presentation, no matter how true or accurate. This is one of those concepts, which may best be taught by example. Several years ago, I […]