Thanksgiving and Safety by Safety Speaker John Drebinger
Thanksgiving and Safety
Tuesday, November 15th
Thanksgiving for Safety Performance
In January, we celebrate the safety successes of the previous year and commit to a better year ahead. Next week, we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. This week will be a great opportunity to remind people to give thanks for the safety performance we have had over the last year. Also, remind people that even if you have had fewer injuries than the year before, it was still a bad year for those who sustained an injury.
Remember, even if you didn’t have a better year than last year, it is important to realize that without everyone’s commitment to safety there would have been many more people hurt and certainly more severe injuries.
It is also worthwhile to give thanks for close calls that were not injuries. Too often, people fail to appreciate that a close call or a property damage event could have been much worse if not for luck or the grace of God, depending on how you look at the world.
Being Grateful For Those Who Watched Out For You
Another area to recognize is to think of those with whom you work who watched out for your safety over the past year. Make sure you thank them for caring enough to watch out for you and say something or take action.
Thanks From John Drebinger
I am thankful for the privilege of writing this newsletter to help you prevent injuries on and off the job. I appreciate the time you invest in reading this and I am especially thankful for all of you who have contacted me during the year telling me how you have used the information you have gained from this newsletter.
I am also grateful for each and every one of you who have given me the opportunity to speak in person to your fellow employees. I know it takes a great amount of faith to bring in an outside speaker and I thank you for that trust.
I am thankful for each and every audience I have been in front of this year. Whether it was a room of one thousand or five people in a control room, I value each and every audience member.
I am thankful for those of you who will be bringing me to your site this coming year. I look forward to helping your people watch out for each other’s safety.
Last but not least, I am grateful to Diane Weiss, Sandie Gilbert and my wife, Karen Drebinger, who handle all the arrangements so I can efficiently move around this world spreading the message of safety.
Thanks for what you do to get people home safely every day.
Yours in service,
John Drebinger
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Outcome Based Presentations For Your Safety Kickoff
“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?”
We tell everyone that they should be their “brothers keeper” and yet we don’t teach them how to do it. This presentation which accompanies my new book by the same title is designed to create a culture in your workplace where watching out for each other is the norm rather than the exception.
“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?” will:
• Give people the five reasons they should watch out for the safety of others.
• Explain the three reasons people fail to watch out for the safety of others and then give them a perspective that will allow them to overcome the obstacles that keep people from helping others.
• Give them specific techniques they can use immediately to share safety with someone else in a way both people will feel great.
• Finally the most important lesson of the presentation is showing people how to respond when someone watches out for their safety. This lesson ensures that people will continue to watch out for each other and will seek out ways to watch out for the safety of their fellow worker.
This presentation is so powerful that John has written a book by the same title that is provided for each attendee so they can review what they have learned and share it with their family and friends. It has been so well-received that we have already made our second printing of 5,000 copies only four months after our releasing the book.
“Ensure Your Safety”
If you want people to take personal responsibility for their own safety on and off the job this presentation is for you.
Your employees will learn:
• Why they need to take personal responsibility for their own safety.
• How to stay focused in order to ensure safe performance.
• How distractions impact their personal safety.
• How to regain their focus on safety when distractions get in the way.
• Why they want to avoid shortcuts for themselves and others.
Everyone will develop a positive association between safety and their job and understand how working safely directly benefits them and their families, today and in the future. Using magic, group participation, specific safety principles and universal truths, John will show the seasoned worker why they play a vital role in helping the “new guy” work safely by avoiding shortcuts and doing everything the safest way we know how.
John shows them why using the appropriate personal protective equipment ensures their safety even when machinery fails or human errors occur. This presentation covers safety from the time they leave home to driving safely back to their family at the end of the day.
His unique presentation breaks through the mindset of, “We have heard it all before.” His magic captures their attention, and the message they hear will make them take action resulting in fewer injuries.
“Safety as a Value”
In this completely different program, John shows your employees how to improve their own safety by sending the right message via their actions and words at work and home.
Your Employees Will Learn:
• What their real values are.
• How to convey those values to their family and friends.
• Safety is a value for everyone.
The key to his insightful approach is the premise that safety must be a personal value, and that values don’t change when conditions change, even in tough times. John will help your people raise their expectations, vision, passion, and energy to work safely and make a safer and more productive workplace.
With new stories and magic, this presentation will help your employees continue their enthusiasm and focus toward another year of safety success!
What do you want from a safety presentation?
• People to walk out saying, “That was the best safety meeting they have ever attended.”
• Everyone to talk about the safety meeting long after it is over.
• You want all of the above and most of all you want to get results. It doesn’t matter if everyone loved the speaker, their message, and yet they don’t change how they work.
John Drebinger is the only top safety speaker specifically trained to deliver an effective message. In addition to his Bachelors degree in Speech he has been a member of the National Speaker’s Association for over 16 years and has attended seminars from some of the most effective communicators in the nation.
From the descriptions listed above you have already noticed something that separates John Drebinger from other professional safety speakers. As an author and speaker he has many different presentations he can do for your employees. To help you deliver your safety message John customizes each of his presentations to convey your theme and concepts. Unlike many other safety speakers who have only one speech or story to tell, John has developed presentations that build on each other to help you improve your safety performance.
Logistics
John can do multiple presentations during the day so that all your shifts can hear his outstanding message. Diane Weiss his marketing director can help you with your scheduling as she has worked with hundreds of companies over the past twenty-one years and knows what will serve you best.
John’s presentations can be done in virtually any location. If you can safely gather an audience he can get his message to them.
These presentations are designed for employee meetings with 45 minutes to 1-hour time available.
