--- title: Kevin Burns Blog | safety meeting (3) description: safety meeting | Tools and strategies to build supervisor leadership, clarify the safety message, and get employee buy-in. 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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) ## [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. Those meetings don’t get results either. Then there are engaging safety meetings, ones that build teamwork and motivation for safety. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-strategies-to-improve-safety-meetings) ## [3 Safety Engagement Strategies You're Probably Overlooking](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-overlooked-strategies) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![strategies02.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/strategies02.jpg?width=900&name=strategies02.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-overlooked-strategies) To fix safety performance, you must first fix the engagement issue. Gallup pegs the disengagement rate of employees and workers at around 70%. 7 out of 10 employees, workers and contractors are not actively engaged in their work. Here’s why that spells big trouble for safety. If a worker is not engaged in their work, then they are not engaged in safely doing their work. You cannot be disengaged from the job but still engaged in safety. To fix the safety performance, you must first fix the engagement issue. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-overlooked-strategies) ## [PeopleWork - The Human Touch in Workplace Safety: Book by Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/peoplework-the-human-touch-in-workplace-safety-new-book-by-kevin-burns) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on April 14, 2025 [![author w book\_sm.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/author-w-book_sm.jpg?width=900&name=author-w-book_sm.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/peoplework-the-human-touch-in-workplace-safety-new-book-by-kevin-burns) PeopleWork lays out a new safety model. It changes the discussion from rule-based enforcement to performance-based culture focused on mentoring, coaching, and inspiring teams. When frontline supervisors buy into safety as a personal value, they better understand their role in keeping the workplace safe. In fact, if crews themselves can become safety leaders, the need for safety inspectors almost disappears altogether. So, I wrote PeopleWork - The Human Touch in Workplace Safety to introduce the next level in safety. In the book, I lay out The M4 Method for taking workplace safety to the next level. The M4 Method combines four elements: Management, Meetings, Marketing and Motivation. All parts depend on the other parts to take safety from a compliance-based focus to one that is more people-based. The people-based approach helps employees to buy-in to safety. Here are a few snippets from the book now on sale worldwide on Amazon.... [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/peoplework-the-human-touch-in-workplace-safety-new-book-by-kevin-burns) ## [Safety Is Not A Contest](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safety-is-not-a-contest) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![cash.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cash.jpg?width=900&name=cash.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safety-is-not-a-contest) People don’t buy-in to safety because they get a prize. Once upon a time I was photocopier salesperson. Our sales manager would run regular sales contests. The most cold-calls would win a cash prize. The most sales in a month would win a hotel stay and dinner. The top salesman annually would win a big cash bonus. The winners were usually those who were top of the heap anyway. [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/safety-is-not-a-contest) ## [Why Safety As First Agenda Item Fails](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/meeting-agenda-fails) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![agenda02.jpeg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/agenda02.jpeg?width=900&name=agenda02.jpeg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/meeting-agenda-fails) At management level meetings, safety isn’t about rules. It’s about how safety advances the organization. Companies are including safety more often in general meeting discussions. It’s commendable. Safety people have wished for a long time for safety to be a top agenda item in management and general staff meetings. Now it’s starting to happen in more and more organizations. But is there a plan on behalf of the Safety department to maximize the effectiveness of this new position? Is safety prepared for their moment in the sun? [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/meeting-agenda-fails) ## [3 Ways To Shorten Safety Meetings And Still Be More Effective](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-ways-to-shorten-safety-meetings) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![meetings06.jpg](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/meetings06.jpg?width=900&name=meetings06.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-ways-to-shorten-safety-meetings) There are requirements to cover in safety meetings. They require a balanced approach. Engagement and safety have to work together. No one has ever complained that the safety meeting was too short. In fact, cheers go up when the safety meeting somehow magically ends early. Safety meetings are the only legally required meetings of an organization besides the shareholders’ Annual General Meetings. But nowhere in the OH&S Act does it require safety meetings to be dull, dry, boring or long. This article addresses longer format meetings like safety days, stand-downs, or any other multi-hour safety event. Safety meetings can either be effective or confusing. Yes, there are requirements to cover in the safety meeting but it has to be a balanced approach. Engagement and safety have to work together. Here are three ways that you can shorten the length of the safety meeting and still be more effective at engaging your people: [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-ways-to-shorten-safety-meetings) ## [3 Simple Ideas To Improve Safety Meetings](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-simple-ideas-to-improve-safety-meetings) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![3 Simple Ideas To Improve Safety Meetings](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/meetings04.jpg?width=900&name=meetings04.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-simple-ideas-to-improve-safety-meetings) If you want to improve safety meetings, you have to improve the level of respect you have for your people first. Mark Cuban, television personality and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks once said, “Never take meetings unless someone is writing a check.” He might be onto something there. Safety people would make a bigger effort if they got paid for the quality of their safety meetings. But that’s not happening anytime soon. So, for now, you will have to accept that safety meetings are notorious time killers. They usually start late, discuss too many topics, and end up running long. Poor planning combined with poor presentation skills make them difficult to endure. If your people can’t wait to attend the next safety meeting, and are excited when it’s meeting day, then you’re doing it right. But that’s not you is it? So how about you invest a few minutes and give some consideration to some new ideas. Like a good safety meeting, it’ll be short and to the point. Here are three simple ideas that can transform your safety meetings from boring to engaging - and build respect: [Read More](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-simple-ideas-to-improve-safety-meetings) ## [3 Ways To Improve Buy-in Through Safety Meetings](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-ways-to-improve-buy-in-through-safety-meetings) Posted by [Kevin Burns](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/author/kevin-burns) on October 1, 2024 [![3 Ways To Improve Buy-in Through Safety Meetings](https://www.kevburns.com/hs-fs/hubfs/buy-in03.jpg?width=900&name=buy-in03.jpg)](https://www.kevburns.com/blog/3-ways-to-improve-buy-in-through-safety-meetings) Change the perception from HAVING to attend safety meetings, to WANTING to. Nowhere in the Occupational Health and Safety Code does it state that a safety meeting has to be enjoyable. But what if the requirement was that safety meetings had to be engaging? What if that was written into the Code that you could be fined or jailed if you did not engage your people in safety meetings? Would you finally stop the archaic, mind-numbing practices of lousy safety meetings? Would you, instead, spend some time raising the standards of the meeting? There are standards for working at height, with dangerous goods, in pits, underground. You are required to ensure that employees understand and comply with these standards. But, where are the standards for holding engaging, uplifting safety meetings? Does there have to be a law passed before you will do it? You claim to want to have a workplace with a strong safety culture. But you continue to turn your safety meetings into dull, half-hearted events. Safety meetings are a key rallying point of your culture. If you want to build safety buy-in, you’ve got to utilize your safety meetings as a key tool to do that. 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