In-Person Safety Speaker vs. Virtual Meetings Is It Time To Return To In-Person Meetings? Now that we are on a path to “normalcy” the question of returning to in-person safety kickoffs, quarterly safety meetings, comes to mind. In this article I will consider, “What is the value of these types of safety meetings?” As an […]

Safety Speakers Can Learn From Their Audience Great safety speakers can learn as much from their audience as the audience learns from them. As a safety speaker I had the pleasure of speaking at two conferences this year held by Innovative Risk Management. The first meeting was in Dallas, Texas. As with every successful meeting […]

Success Breeds Complacency As a safety speaker I have discovered in the field of safety, it is ironic that the better your safety performance the more likely people will become complacent. Employees can become complacent and let their guard down. Management can become complacent and believe, “We are now a safe workplace.” As you know, […]

Safety Motivational Speakers Save Lives When a safety team wants to deliver a message with power they know bringing in an expert can make a real difference. Effective safety motivational speakers cause people to rethink their actions and choose to work safely. When someone rescues someone from actions that could result in their death or […]

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 […]

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 […]

How often do you thank the members of your safety team? Whether they are safety professionals or volunteers on your safety team or even people who have been appointed based upon their position in your organization, they are a special group of people. As a safety speaker, I always end any presentation to safety teams […]

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. […]

Helping Others – Safety, What’s In It For Me? Over 24 years ago when I began speaking to audiences about safety, this was the title of my presentation. I was reminded of it when I was being interviewed by Dave Johnson with ISHN www.ishn.com He asked me as a safety speaker about the motivation to […]

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 […]