Like any other blog or article I post, you are welcome to copy this and pass it on to your employees. ***************************** From Richard Hawk- Safety Expert and Professional Speaker Dear Parents, Teaching your children about safety at an early [...]
Making Sure Vital Instructions are Understood Accurately The nod is dangerous. Like the word "yes," it is easy, fast, and signals agreement--yet it proves nothing. When considered sufficient evidence of understanding, the nod can lead to disaster. When giving vital [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
It was a pleasant surprise when I gave five talks at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC), and the company's CEO Randy Arnett attended all five talks! Most times top executives give a "state of the company" talk and then hit [...]
It's amazing what fans will do to show devotion to their teams. Let's take football fans for example. They'll dress up in goofy costumes, paint their faces and bodies, and then stand brazenly half-naked in freezing weather. They'll even buy [...]
Here is a small playground around the corner from my house. When I first moved into this neighborhood 20 years ago, the playground was regularly used. Most summer days (and nice weather afternoons during school months) there were at least [...]
Texting while driving has continued to grow as a menace on our highways. I’m sure, like me that you regularly see someone texting when you're at a red light or you pass one other. A book I just finished, A Deadly Wandering—A [...]
My longtime friend Robert gave his first paid talk last week. Here's an excerpt from a text he sent me after he'd given the talk: "I was in the warehouse during a big storm and the roll-up doors kept banging. It was [...]
Habits drive much of our behavior. They often have a strong impact on our health and wellbeing. Habits can also drive a companies overall safety success, particularly what Charles Duhigg calls "keystone" habits in his book The Power of Habit [...]