How Pervasive Is Safety In Your Life? This is a great question to ask your employees. This is one of those questions that you ask to stimulate thought. You aren’t looking for an answer out loud you are looking for an answer in their head. Share with them that their response can tell them how […]

Train Ride For Safety As I write this I am riding Amtrak south through the Central Valley of California. In a couple of hours I will arrive in Bakersfield and meet my son John who is driving home to spend some time with his friends this weekend. The reason for my trip is two fold. […]

In my last blog I talked about planning ahead for emergency situations. In writing that article I realized how much we depend on technology these days. The danger is when we take something for granted. Then when it is gone we are hopeless without it. As a safety speaker my iPhone is vital to my […]

Backup Plans – A New Perspective As a safety speaker I get to spend many days traveling and fortunately I enjoy it. This is a good safety topic to share with your employees that will help them remain safe when they are on a business trip or help keep their family safe when away from […]

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, […]