Passing on our safety messages so they are understood accurately can be tricky. When words flow in abundance, ideas quickly lose their integrity. We thought we said, "Move the tray to the right," but our listener insists we said, "Move the tray [...]
Here's an excerpt from Spice It Up! 52 Easy Ways to Turn Your Safety Meetings from Bland to GRAND! For more information about this helpful tool visit: http://store.makesafetyfun.com/ *********************************** TIP #43 There are two main types of gestures: emphatic and [...]
. . . 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]