Here's an excerpt from my booklet Spice It Up! 52 Easy Ways to Turn Your Safety Meetings from Bland to GRAND!" in the final section on "The Ending." For more info about this helpful product: Spice It Up! TIP #44--Don't [...]
Here's something your welcome to use that would be fun to include as an "ice breaker" at a safety and health meeting. It's a ten-question quiz on unusual risk comparisons. The answers are included along with a bit of background [...]
During my "Spice It Up!" seminar and talk I use cockroaches as a metaphor for things everyone dislikes during safety meetings and training. Well here are seven safety-meeting roaches safety presenters should squash: #1 Pontificating Nobody cares about the rules--not really. Pontificating [...]
During my "Find Your Focus" talk I encourage my audiences to drink plenty of water. I go on to describe why it is so vital to our overall mental and physical health. But as with most things in life, too [...]
This time last week United flight #14 was bringing me back from Hawaii. I gave the opening keynote at the state chapter of the ASSE’s annual convention on Monday. Though I have fond feelings of my home, coming back to [...]
All of us Safety & Health Leaders want to sound smarter, don't we? Well, here are three "safety" words that will help you do that: NEW WORD: Parlous (PAHR-lous) MEANING: Dangerous INSTEAD OF . . . "This won't hurt a bit!" SOUND [...]
Last Thursday I spoke to the leaders and other employees at ExxonMobil’s Clinton NJ research site. When I took out my computer back at my hotel an hour before I planned to leave for the site, I couldn’t find the [...]
This is one of my favorite "safety stories." When I was a full-time safety and health trainer in the nuclear industry, I'd tell it as a way to poke fun. I'd say something like: "If a baboon can have a perfect safety record why can't [...]
It was a romantic evening on the strip in Vegas. Well, at least it was while I was walking along the canal outside the Venetian. I stopped to watch the gondolas slowly skim over the water that was lit up with a [...]
Have you ever tried to catch a chicken? I have. It's hard. One day my wife, Jackie and I were driving near our home, and there was a featherless chicken along the side of the road (it had fallen off [...]