Safety Speaker Insight – Lack of Negative Results or Consequences Makes Deviation Normal For years in my presentation, “Ensure Your Safety” as a safety speaker I have taught people that shortcuts violate our normal learning system. Normally, you take an action, which results in a reaction. For instance, your mom probably told you not to […]

Safety Speaker Insight – The Absence of Intervention Is Approval When you see someone doing something unsafe and choose not to say something you are actually part of a very dangerous process called normalization of deviance. As a safety speaker, I am familiar with the concept and it’s classic example the  Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. […]

Safety Speakers Insights – More “Why of Safety” I have discussed in my previous articles, the importance of giving people the “WHY” of safety. I experienced a perfect example of this recently. At the beginning of the meeting, they had one of the hotel staff serve as one of their safety speakers, explaining the emergency […]

Safety Motivational Speakers – Watch What You Are Saying I have heard many well-meaning safety motivational speakers use the phrase, “Accidents Happen,” in their safety talks. This is a dangerous idea to plant in the minds of your audience. When Did You First Realize The Importance Of Safety? As a safety speaker, I like to […]

Safety Motivational Speaker Idea You Can Use As a safety motivational speaker I see many innovative ideas my clients use to improve the safety of their employees. One of the best ways your leadership can show they truly care about their employees is to teach safety they can use at home. Keep in mind you […]

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 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 […]

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 […]