. . . that is a question I’ve been asked (and pondered over) many times during my career as a professional speaker. If you have to give presentations, you’ve probably wrestled with this too. Even when I attended my first [...]
One of my favorite audience activities, which always revs up everyone's brain power and gets loads of laughs is a funny picture contest. I also use contests to engage my "Safety Stuff" subscribers. In future blogs, I’ll pass on [...]
EMBARRASSED IN THE E.R. What's worse than a trip to the emergency room? A trip to the E.R. for something really humiliating. These are real-life E.R. reports: "40-year-old female using toothbrush to make herself gag, accidentally swallowed toothbrush." "Abdominal pain. [...]
Just got back from speaking at the Second Annual ErgoX Conference in Orange County, CA. Excellent conference and the audience was stimulating, intelligent and fun. The 2017 ERGO-X Conference is June 17 to 19 in Tampa Florida. If you're involved in the field of ergonomics in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"When it's foggy in the pulpit... it's cloudy in the pew."--Robert Cavett, founder of the National Speakers Association People like to know what they are going to get--before they get it. When you stand before an audience and ask for [...]