--- title: Kevin Burns Blog | kevin burns (9) description: kevin burns | Tools and strategies to build supervisor leadership, clarify the safety message, and get employee buy-in. 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[workplace wellness (1)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/topic/workplace-wellness) - [world-class safety program (1)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/topic/world-class-safety-program) See all ## [Safety Communication Strategies From The Super Bowl](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safety-communication-strategies-from-the-super-bowl) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![football01.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/football01.jpg?width=900&name=football01.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safety-communication-strategies-from-the-super-bowl) People cannot recall everything they are exposed to in a single message but safety people think they are. This year, the cost of a 30-second Super Bowl ad was $5 Million. And advertising availabilities were sold out … again. Companies lined up to spend millions of dollars for a single 30-second time-slot. But, do you think that expenditure of $5 Million for a single ad drives enough revenue to the sponsor to pay for that ad? Nope. It will not. At least not alone. Advertisers who take a 30-second time-slot on the Super Bowl are not expecting to drive tens of millions of dollars of sales from a single ad. No. They are using that expenditure of a single TV ad as a showcase for their product. But it is only a small piece of the overall mix of their marketing tools. In addition to the ad buy, companies will spend millions of dollars more marketing attention on their ad. In other words, they will tease their customers that they will be unveiling a new ad during Super Bowl. They will employ millions of dollars on social media strategies to engage people to watch the ad both prior to the Super Bowl and even more after the Super Bowl is over. They will look for the media to talk about their ads (giving them more free publicity), hope people will share social media links (more free publicity) and even wait for others to mock the ads with spoof ads (even more free publicity). Thousands of people will go to work to get people to take an action: to watch the ad during the game, to share the ad with their social media network, to click links to watch the ad online. And it’s all done in the hopes of driving more foot traffic through the doors to sell more product. People buy what they are aware of and what intrigues them. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safety-communication-strategies-from-the-super-bowl) ## [Value People With Safety](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/value-people-with-safety) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![valued01.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/valued01.jpg?width=900&name=valued01.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/value-people-with-safety) You can’t use negative tools to create a positive safety culture. Would you show your love and caring to your child or spouse through the use of guilt, manipulation and scare tactics? Do you think that by using guilt, fear and manipulation, your loved one could get a really good sense of how much they are cared for and valued? A few years back, while attending a safety meeting, the safety manager closed the meeting with a video of a workplace injury. At the end of the twenty minutes, an employee asked why they were shown that video? The employee pointed out that the story was twenty years old, the regulations had changed, and their own corporate safety manual wouldn’t allow any of the behaviors. He voiced his displeasure at being forced to sit through something that insulted their ability, their teamwork and their commitment to safety. Safety must stop downloading anonymous Internet photos of injury, guilt and fear-inducing videos, and “don’t do what he did” stories of workplace injury. Scaring people straight may work for troubled teens when they visit prisons. But fear and guilt are no way to honor mature adult employees with families. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/value-people-with-safety) ## [3-Part Safety Buy-in Strategy](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-part-safety-buy-in-strategy) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![peace02.png](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/peace02.png?width=900&name=peace02.png)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-part-safety-buy-in-strategy) Instead of focusing on what your people might lose, focus on what they’ll gain. Present safety in a positive way. One of my clients recently brought up the DSL Strategy in my book,PeopleWork: The Human Touch in Workplace Safety (page 115 if you’re following along). It’s in Chapter 6, “Creating Employee Buy-in.” We talked a bit about it in more detail because the DSL Strategy is intended to be used in place of “shock and awe” campaigns of gruesome photos, gut-wrenching videos and stories of “don’t do what he did.” [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-part-safety-buy-in-strategy) ## [Heartfelt Safety Is Real](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/heartfelt-safety-is-real) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![kd.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/kd.jpg?width=900&name=kd.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/heartfelt-safety-is-real) The people we seem to respect the most are the ones, the leaders, who are not afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. Last week on the national TV news, there was a feature about a ten year-old autistic boy who had a love of Star Wars Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese. The problem was that the Star Wars promotion was running out of stock. A plea went out from the boys parents on social media to help find more boxes of the the Star Wars mac and cheese. William Shatner, Captain Kirk from Star Trek, connected with the manufacturers to have many year’s supply sent to the boy. It was a heartwarming story. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/heartfelt-safety-is-real) ## [Marketing Safety To Improve Buy-in](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/marketing-safety-to-improve-buy-in) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![marketing04.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/marketing04.jpg?width=900&name=marketing04.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/marketing-safety-to-improve-buy-in) Safety marketing is what creates value and motivates people to action. In the summer of 1974, a tractor in a rocky field was cutting the soil and dropping 200-foot long lines of copper wire in the ground. When completed, there were five miles of 200-foot sections spreading out like a spider web. At the center of the wire web was a radio broadcast tower. The copper wire strands connected to the base of the tower grounded and dissipated energy from potential lightning strikes. This was my Dad’s radio broadcast tower in our hometown. I learned a lot of things about both marketing and communications in that first year the radio station went on the air, especially the difference between marketing and communications. The simplified version is this: if you’re listening to the news, the weather or a talk-show on the radio, that’s communications. If you’re listening to a commercial, a contest or an on-location broadcast, that’s marketing. Communications inform. Marketing moves you to an action. And this is where most safety programs make their biggest mistake. They assume that informing (communications) is enough. But it isn’t. PowerPoint slides, inspection reports and incident reviews are information (communications). Statistics, lagging indicators and white papers are information (communications). But none of them move people to take an action. It is information; nice to have and good to know. And although this information may influence your decision (or not) to take an action, in and of itself it does not move people. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/marketing-safety-to-improve-buy-in) ## [When Quality Meets Safety](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/when-quality-meets-safety) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![quality02.png](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/quality02.png?width=900&name=quality02.png)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/when-quality-meets-safety) When engagement is missing, so is quality, pride and, sadly, safety. Turn on the TV and you come across fix-it experts hosting renovation or business turnaround shows. In every one of these programs are several common denominators which directly relate to a much-needed fix: [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/when-quality-meets-safety) ## [Safety's The Safety Guy's Responsibility](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safetys-the-safety-guys-responsibility) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![accountability 1.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/accountability-1.jpg?width=900&name=accountability-1.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safetys-the-safety-guys-responsibility) Safety is a shared responsibility. It’s not exclusive to one person. It still exists. There are far too many people who still believe that safety is the responsibility of the safety department. They think Safety is responsible for completing forms and paperwork, interventions and observations, and making sure employees are wearing their PPE. The safety department will also supply them with their eye protection, hearing protection, gloves and will pony up cash for other parts of the required and mandated safety equipment. But, just like a rental car, they treat the company-purchased safety protection in the same way. Misplaced regularly, they expect the company to replace their lost PPE items. Even though they may use their own power tools on a construction site, for example, the hands that hold the tools should be covered by gloves purchased by the company. The safety guy must do all of the paperwork because, “that’s his job.” [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safetys-the-safety-guys-responsibility) ## [3 Reasons You Hate Selling Safety But Need To Do It](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-reasons-you-hate-selling-safety-but-need-to-do-it) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![sellsafety02.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/sellsafety02.jpg?width=900&name=sellsafety02.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-reasons-you-hate-selling-safety-but-need-to-do-it) Selling is about solving a problem or uncovering a benefit of safety in a way that makes people want to buy-in. Safety shouldn’t have to be sold. That comment is typical right across the varying types of safety personnel. People get hung up on the word selling as though selling is a bad thing, a manipulative thing. Truthfully, what now seems like a lifetime ago, I used to sell photocopiers. But, my clients would never buy the photocopier. They bought what it could do. And more importantly, what it could do for them. Prior to photocopier sales, I sold radio advertising. Again, people weren’t buying commercial time. They were buying the foot traffic to their business that the commercial time created - what it could do for them. You must sell safety the same way too. It’s not about shoving safety down the throats of your people. It’s about helping them see that safety improves their lives in a way that they are probably not seeing it. As a supervisor or safety person, you have to help employees see what safety does and can do for them. Selling anything takes a communications skill-set and trust. Rarely are the best salespeople the newest salespeople. The best salespeople are the experienced veterans who always keep the interests of the client at the forefront. They know that the product or service they are selling will help to eliminate a client’s pain-point. And the client knows it, too. No one buys anything that doesn’t make their lives better in some way. It’s why we buy homes, vehicles, vacations, education, insurance and investments. Those things make our lives better, more comfortable, less uncertain. So, why wouldn’t we buy-in to safety too? [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-reasons-you-hate-selling-safety-but-need-to-do-it) ## [Top 3 Strategies To Improve Safety Buy-in](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/strategies-for-safety-buy-in) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![buy in05.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/buy-in05.jpg?width=900&name=buy-in05.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/strategies-for-safety-buy-in) When you have achieved successful buy-in, your people can help turn a company’s mundane safety program into a movement built around a set of values, rather than rules. Pick any night of the week and you’re likely to stumble across a repeat broadcast of the TV shows Shark Tank (USA) or Dragon’s Den (Canada, UK, Australia, etc). Entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. If the pitch is a good one, there’s a good chance of getting buy-in from one or more of the Dragons or Sharks. If the pitch misses the mark, they go home empty-handed. Take this idea and apply it to safety. Instead of looking at a safety meeting as a place to pitch stats, figures, reports and procedures, view your safety meeting attendees as potential investors. If your pitch misses, your people won’t invest themselves in safety. Your presentation won’t yield the buy-in you’re looking for. But if you pitch successfully, you’ve offered plenty of benefits and helped eliminate the mental barriers to improve safety culture. If you want to build a solid safety culture, you’re going to need employee buy-in. Here are three strategies that can get you started in improving buy-in to the safety program: [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/strategies-for-safety-buy-in) ## [3 Strategies To Improve Safety Meetings](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-strategies-to-improve-safety-meetings) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![meetings08.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/meetings08.jpg?width=900&name=meetings08.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-strategies-to-improve-safety-meetings) If you’re going to bring employees to a safety meeting, involve them, engage them, ask them. It’s their meeting too. “These meetings are so boring. I’d rather be working.” That’s a comment actually overheard in a safety meeting. There’s a difference between safety meetings and engaging safety meetings. Safety meetings are typically information dumps and are full of ineffective things that other people use in their safety meetings. 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