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 […]

Do employees read my book, “Would You Watch Out For My Safety?”™? You bet they do! In fact, many companies who do not normally have meetings at which they could bring me in as a safety speaker, have ordered copies for their employees and they are very pleased with the results. I am also pleased […]

As people were gathering for the meeting, Ami, the safety professional who had brought me to their site as a safety speaker, thanked one of the employees for being at the evening session. The employee replied, “Management ‘Strongly Recommended’ we attend.” By the tone of his voice, he made it clear his leadership was doing […]

Effective Presentations Are Memorable As you know, as a safety speaker, I use magic during my presentation. I do this for several very important reasons. First and foremost is to make the meeting more effective and to ensure my audience remembers what I share with them and also takes action on that information. Secondly, it […]

A couple of months ago, as a safety motivational speaker, I had the privilege of teaching my full-day communication course, “Mastering Safety Communication” at the National Safety Council Congress. I began that class and my two breakout sessions the following two days by asking questions of my audience. As part of the communication class, I […]

In last week’s newsletter, I told a story of an employee directing traffic at a fast-food restaurant opening. As a safety speaker I thought about that incident. It made me think about the thoughts of the managers at the local store and even at the corporate office if he had been hit and injured while […]

As a safety speaker I was driving south from Indianapolis through a beautiful portion of Indiana, I see a Chick-Fil-A off the highway ahead. I turn off the main road and see a young employee standing in the middle of the street directing traffic (coincidentally, it was a new store opening). When you watch someone […]