3 Strategies For Better Safety Meetings

Posted by Kevin Burns on Apr 29, 2013 1:35:00 PM

If safety meetings are not fun or engaging for attendees, they won’t remember it.

Part of the overall strategy for safety communication and meetings should be a requirement to avoid mind-numbing and boring your people whenever possible. But that's tough when the subject-matter and even worse, the presenters, are boring.

You make it so much more difficult for employees to engage and stay sharp if you insist on throwing every boring statistic, figure, graph and performance chart that you can lay your hands on at them in one meeting - and expecting any level of recall.

Boring presenters are not born - they are made by the example of those boring presenters who they've observed. Over time, bad meetings evolve into something worse by exposure to mind-numbing safety meetings featuring a parade of PowerPoint armed, personality-deficient robots.

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You Should Be Marketing Safety To Employees

Posted by Kevin Burns on Apr 2, 2013 12:32:00 PM

Advertising is a one-way street: outward. It talks at us not with us. Memos and surveys at work are one-way communication. There is no conversation. There is no engagement. Because to build engagement, especially in safety, requires a relationship.

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Selling Safety To Employees

Posted by Kevin Burns on Apr 1, 2013 3:59:00 PM

Safety is a marketing strategy - not a compliance program. Every word, sign, directive and safety meeting will either help or hinder your people in deciding whether to buy safety for themselves.

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