Safety meetings - Articles

Friendly persuasion beats negative safety training lectures

Safety needs a “common language”

August 1, 2019

Be careful, pay attention, watch what you’re doing, follow the rules... and you won’t get hurt!” Not exactly the most positive form of communication, is it?

Strengthening jobsite safety climate by using and improving leading indicators

July 14, 2016

Idea 1—Integrate safety expectations into policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure they are aligned with other organizational priorities It may be that safety is not relevant to all policies and procedures, but it probably is to most of them.

Three keys for making the most of OSHA’s Stand Down Week

May 2, 2016

GET REAL. Start with research. If you’re not comfortable with the statistics, facts, and requirements regard falls, you’re not going to be able to deliver them in a convincing manner. If you’re not comfortable delivering the information, find somebody who is. This doesn’t have to be a one-man show.

A NIOSH Science Blog post

How to put leading indicators into practice

February 19, 2016

The use of leading indicators is a growing hot topic in occupational and environmental health and safety. The Campbell Institute at the National Safety Council has been studying leading indicators for the past two years to help more organizations take advantage of their predictive power.

What do statistics mean to your audience?

John Drebinger Jr.

December 22, 2015

How often do you or the leadership of your company share safety statistics with your employees? At a recent presentation, the corporate safety leader took a moment to talk with the employees. Earlier in the meeting, it was shared with the employees that the previous year they had a 1.2 OSHA recordable rate.

From NSC Congress & Expo

Quality, safety and productivity

Benita Mehta

September 28, 2015

Do your employees know the real cost of an injury, asked Rodney Grieve of BRANTA Worldwide. During a Learning Lab Monday at NSC he offered tips on how to defend profits and protect your employees while proving value, gaining cooperation and saving lives. Grieve discussed commonly-used language in the profession and said the words we use connote different behavior, sometimes in a negative light.

Monsoon – Seasonal safety realities

Mike Williamsen Ph.D., CSP

August 11, 2015

Global and regional companies experience seasonal peculiarities that can have a definite impact on the employees and their families. Last month I received a warning notice from a facility cautioning their employees about “Monsoon June.”

Always start your safety meeting on time

John Drebinger Jr.

October 8, 2014

Let's begin with starting on time. As a safety speaker you should always start on time. No matter what the circumstances, I always start on time. It doesn't matter what's going on.

How people get into a “stuck state”

And here’s how to get them thinking – and creating ideas -- positively

John Drebinger Jr.

July 23, 2014

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you were having trouble coming up with an idea? Have you ever observed someone at work saying, "I can't do that" and then nothing happened, or you said, I can't do that" and find that you're stuck?

When senior leaders get a dangerous “exemption”

April 25, 2014

My name is Jason Swaim and I am a reader of your magazine. I read an article you wrote entitled "Leadership- The rest of the story.” The company I work for sent the whole company leadership, including myself, to "Dave Ramsey's Entre-Leadership program."