Safety Speaker John’s Tips – Sharing Safety Stories With Your Friends As an international safety speaker, I have the privilege of sharing safety stories with people all around the world. In my presentation, “Safety For Effective Leaders”, I point out people know what is important to you in life by what they hear you talk […]

Safety Speaker Asks, How Powerful Is Your Reason To Work Safely? One of the great pleasures of my career as an international safety speaker, is being able to share with you ways my clients are improving their safety performance. A few weeks ago, I shared with you the best safety briefing I had ever seen with […]

Safety Speaker Insight – Skill vs. Habit As an international safety speaker I sit in on many safety sessions. Over and over I have heard safety speakers say safety needs to be a habit? I think people who are great at something display more than outstanding habits; they demonstrate outstanding skill. It is easy to […]

The best safety speakers need to know how to have fun with serious subjects. As an international safety speaker I fly thousands of miles every year. Like you, I hear over and over again the same safety announcement. It is so boring that no one listens.  That is unfortunate since the subject is serious and […]

Approaching Others In all of my presentations as an international safety speaker, I point out safety is a 24 hour mindset. When you hold safety as a personal value, it doesn’t turn on when you walk in the gate; you live it 24 hours a day. As you know, I have been helping people to […]

Human Traits and Safety, The Good, Bad and the Ugly Safety speakers can tell you that every audience is different. It is one of the things that makes my job as a safety speaker fun. People are different in how they think and behave. Also, people have different traits, values and beliefs that shape who […]

As A Safety Speaker Teach a Lesson In A Story As an international safety speaker I know the power of stories to teach. Years ago, around the campfire, I heard this story and have told it to every troop of which I have been a Scoutmaster. Two brothers were leaving the town they had lived […]

A Little Background As a safety speaker, I am asked, “How you would most like to work with a client, their leaders and employees?” In a perfect situation, I like to do my presentation, “Would You Watch Out For My Safety? For Effective Leaders” for the leaders of a company, the safety teams, and the […]

Safety Briefing – An Outstanding Example As a safety speaker this week, I joined the BNSF Road Way Equipment Safety Leadership Team in Dallas, Texas. They began their meeting, as many companies do, with a safety briefing. For most meetings, I hear someone give a quick safety minute talk about a general hazard. At many […]

Over the past 25 years as a safety speaker, I have watched the safety profession grow. I remember listening to leaders speak of achieving zero disabling injuries. It seemed as impossible to some people then as achieving zero recordable injuries seems to many people today. When we talk about zero it isn’t the absolute many […]