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 […]

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 […]

Update On Last Week’s Article Last Wednesday morning, I arrived home and pulled into my driveway and while my wife and I were listening to an interview on the radio I began to check my email on my iPad. The first one I saw was a reply to last week’s newsletter. After I read the […]

Water Safety Tip – Summer is Here by Safety Speaker John Drebinger As a safety speaker I love all the great ideas I pick up from my clients. I mentioned a few weeks ago before every meeting including conference calls one of my international consulting clients begins with a safety moment. For today’s call, I […]

Thanks For A Great Week What a great week! First, as a safety speaker I had the privilege of giving a keynote presentation for the Enform Petroleum Safety Conference in Banff, Canada. What a great event! I was able to share my keynote version Would You Watch Out For My Safety?™ to the entire conference. […]

How Often Has Someone You Love Driven Under The Influence Unknowingly? My wife and her friends love to go wine tasting. I am the perfect chauffeur as I don’t drink and never have. This way no one has to give up anything to be the “designated driver.” As I drove them from winery to winery, […]

Just last week, I was visiting friends in Southern California. My friend was driving in Hollywood and suddenly a car made an unexpected lane change in front of us. My friend commented on how stupid the driver was and then proceeded to close the distance between us. This didn’t make sense to me. The other […]