Safety Speaker Tip – Conducting Effective Safety Meetings – Audience First The challenge for many safety meetings is they are driven by what the leader wants to share. “I have to get this information to my audience.” is their logic. This gets the communication focus off in the wrong direction. This direction is Speaker to […]

Safety Speaker Tip – Emergency Lighting – In Everyone’s Pocket From all the video posted online from people’s phone cameras we are all aware there are few places in this world where there isn’t a camera or recording device. As a safety speaker, I am aware almost everyone in my audience has a smart phone. […]

Safety Speaker Tip – Focus and Topic As a safety speaker, I learned from one of my mentors the importance of Topic Focus. I want to discuss focus in relation to the topic of your safety presentation. Another way of putting this is, staying on topic. When you are crafting a toolbox talk or safety […]

Safety Speakers and Personal Responsibility Safety speakers talk alot about taking personal responsibility for safety. Personal responsibility must be taken in many forms to assure a safe workplace. In order to be effective in communicating safety concepts, each one of us must take responsibility for our own safety. As safety professionals and managers, we must […]

Safety Speakers Do Whatever It Takes I believe great safety speakers must be willing to do “whatever it takes” to make sure their safety message is heard. Here are some tips from my best selling book, “Mastering Safety Communicaton.” (For More Information Click Here) It is important to understand the context of that comment, “whatever […]

Safety  Speakers Insights – The Power of Questions Safety speakers need to understand the power of the questions they ask themselves and others. Here are some tips from chapter one of my book, “Mastering Safety Communication” which you can purchase on this website. (Click Here) The direction your thinking takes is quite often directed by […]

Safety Speakers and Consequences There are many techniques safety speakers can use. If you know my work as a safety speaker, author and thought leader, you know I prefer to motivate people from a positive perspective. When people are self-motivated to work safely they will make the best safety choices even when no one is […]

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 […]

As a safety speaker I hear and see much material about cellular phones. Most conversations about cellular phone safety have been approached from the perspective of the person on the cellular phone driving, walking or doing some other activity. Imagine yourself at your desk, at home sitting down, or someplace else where everyone would agree […]

As a safety speaker I think of communicating safety every day. On New Years Eve I saw an excellent use of social media to send a positive safety message. One of my Facebook friends Tom posted the following the afternoon of New Years Eve. In following the comments I don’t believe any one took him […]