Preparing For A Successful 2016 Safety Kickoff Safety kickoffs can have a significant effect on how your employees approach safety. They can set the tone, inspire, motivate and educate your entire workforce to achieve better safety performance. Before you know it, January 2016 will be here and you will be celebrating your safety success of […]

Safety People Are A Special Breed One of the fun parts of being an international safety speaker is the opportunity to travel and meet friends, fellow safety speakers, associates and you at safety conferences. This June safety professionals and team members gathered in Dallas for the annual American Society of Safety Engineers Professional Development Conference. […]

Safety Speakers Vision Safety speakers have some fun opportunities. Meeting you when I travel is one of them. Also the discussions safety speakers have with their audience after a presentation and through email help improve how we help people work safely. As a consultant, speaker and author, I really enjoy hearing from you, my readers. […]

Flexibility and Communication Success Speaking of flexibility one of the best ways to make your point is by using humor. For April Fools fun check out: http://goo.gl/HFI9jP As I was catching up on the goings on of my friends and family on Facebook, I stumbled on a story of a teacher who truly knows how […]

One of the best ways to make your point is by using humor. For April Fools fun check out: http://goo.gl/HFI9jP As you know, you will more likely listen to a creative and fun airline safety announcement than the same old, tired message. For years as a safety speaker, I have been sharing the message that […]

Warning Signs – Truth or Fiction? There are safety stories everywhere you go. When you pay attention to what is going on around you they can become a part of your safety presentations. This week, I was buying gas and ran into the store to get a soft drink. As I did, I heard a […]

This week on a call with one of my clients, I took the responsibility for the pre-call safety moment. As I have mentioned in previous newsletters, this was an idea I learned from this client last year. They, as many other companies, display safety as a value by beginning every meeting with a safety moment […]

Have you ever noticed certain laws go entirely disobeyed? Back in the 70’s when the speed limits were dropped to 55 mph across the United States, almost no one followed the law. Lately, I have noticed a similar phenomenon to the laws regarding hands-free cellular phone use and texting while driving. Just this Sunday on […]

For the past 24 years, not only have I been giving fun, effective, memorable safety presentations, as a safety motivational speaker, I have been sharing with the safety community the, “how to’s” of result-getting safety speaking. It was Joe Kaplan of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Safety Council who gave me my first […]

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. […]