Safety Speaker John Drebinger Video Camera Tip Over the years I have video recorded many of my presentations in order to keep improving and to create demo videos of me as a safety speaker. As a result I have quite a collection of video cameras. My marketing director Diane Weiss was asking me which of […]

Safety Speakers Understand How Communication and Motivation Go Together Over the past few weeks I have discussed the success formula of; Vision, Commitment, and How To. Let’s discuss this in relation to getting our safety message through. Safety speakers can be evaluated by their effectiveness. I know some safety speakers who will tell you how […]

Safety Speakers Must Discuss Values In my presentation, “Safety As A Value,” I talk about how important it is that everyone in your organization holds safety as a personal value. Values and beliefs are what drives our actions. When honesty is one of your values you are will return to a store to inform them […]

 Safety Motivational Speaker Tip – Get their attention first As a safety motivational speaker I was flying home, my connecting flight was through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. As I went to my gate, I noticed a small group of TSA employees being briefed. There were ten to eighteen people in the group. The leader was talking […]

Safety Motivational Speaker Tip – Secrets of Safety Success – Part Three – How To How to Do It As a safety motivational speaker I have learned many secrets of success from my clients. Here is part three. When President Kennedy said we were going to the moon the people at NASA were thinking, can […]

Safety Motivational Speaker Tip – Secrets of Safety Success – Part Two – Commitment As a safety motivational speaker I have discovered the elements of safety success from my clients over the years. So you have a vision now what? Commitment! That is exactly what President John F. Kennedy did on May 25, 1961 when […]

Shooting for Safety – Safety Speakers Tip I had the privilege of being one of many safety speakers at the Region 6 OSHA VPPPA conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. The topic of one of my classes had to do with how to motivate employees to work safely even when no one is watching. Sitting in […]

Safety Speaker Secrets of Safety Success Part One – Vision I am writing this on the 56th anniversary of Gus Grissom’s sub-orbital flight. Alan Shepard had made the first flight May 5th of 1961 and between the two flights President John F. Kennedy announced to the world that we would land a man on the […]

Persuasion, Sales and Safety I bet you never thought when you became a safety person you would be a salesperson. Safety team members and safety speakers need to understand the importance of sales in what they do. Part of being effective in communicating safety is your approach. Safety speakers have the job of selling people […]

Luck Is Not A Plan – Safety Speaker Insights As a safety speaker, I have the opportunity to hear some great insights by other safety speakers and leaders. One corporate leader speaking before me used the slogan, “Luck is not a plan.” Their insight was very powerful for several reasons. First, they had recently experienced […]