#7  Logistics – Tuesday, November 1st Announce logistical details during the first morning.  Emergency information, exits, restrooms, food, or anything else pertinent to your kickoff. Cell Phones & Pagers There are creative ways of asking people to turn off cell phones, such as theatre announcements using old movie cuts, jokes, skits, etc. Then announce to […]

#6   Employee Participation / Involvement – Thursday, October 27th Participation may take many roles. There are those who help with the planning and execution of the kickoff. There are those who need to help only the day of the presentation. The list goes on. If you want to have one of the best kickoffs ever, […]

#5   Safety Kickoff Content – Tuesday, October 25th A successful safety kickoff has many elements. The one most people think about is the content of the meeting and they forget the importance of the other elements. Once again, ask yourself does your content contribute to the outcome for which you are looking? Content at a […]

Ten Elements of Creating an Effective Safety Kickoff #4 Relevancy – Thursday, October 20th Have you ever been in an audience and wondered why you had been asked to be there? Nothing seemed to relate to what you do or how you do it. The problem was that no one had considered how relevant the […]

Techniques Taught – Volume Three of Ten Elements of an Effective Safety Kickoff by safety speaker John Drebinger Looking For Previous Articles In This Series? This newsletter is the 3rd in a series of ten on how to have an effective safety kickoff by safety speaker John Drebinger. If you would like to read the […]

Looking For Previous Articles In This Series? This newsletter is the 2nd in a series of ten on how to have an effective safety kickoff. If you would like to read the preceding articles go to http://www.drebinger.com/?page_id=690 where they have been posted on my daily blog. Ten Elements of Creating an Effective Safety Kickoff #2 […]

Ten Elements of Effective Safety Kickoffs Volume One by Safety Speaker John Drebinger Looking For Other Articles In This Series? This newsletter is the 1st in a series of ten on how to have an effective safety kickoff. If you would like to read the following articles go to http://www.drebinger.com/?page_id=690 where they have been posted […]

Special Announcement by Safety Speaker John Drebinger. Safety kickoff season is just around the corner. I wanted to alert you to a new series of articles I am writing for my electronic newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter on the site and I will be posting the articles on this blog so people […]

Special Announcement by Safety Speaker John Drebinger. It has been awhile since my last blog post. I wanted to alert you to a new series of articles I am writing for my electronic newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter on the site and I will be posting the articles on this blog so […]

Today there is a huge amount of content available to make a safety meeting fun.  You can search the internet for some hilarious video that is appropriate in the workplace. YouTube like other sites does a lot of the work for you. When you finish one video they suggest ones that are similar. One caveat […]