January 17, 2012

Safety Speaker John Drebinger’s Weekly Newsletter

In this week’s newsletter:

- Safety and the New Year

- An update on my future speaking schedule – save money and have me at your site

while I am in your area

Safety and the New Year

I hope you are having an awesome year. Each January we get to reset the records and start with a clean slate.

One of the best kickoff speeches I heard from a plant manager was short and sweet. Congratulations were shared for achieving their best year ever in safety performance. They indeed had a lot to be thankful for as they had cut the number of injuries in half. They went from fourteen the previous year to only seven. That is quite an improvement and a reason to celebrate.

What I heard next told me how well that plant manager understood safety is a personal and corporate value. The manager elegantly said, “We had our best year ever unless you were one of the seven who were injured.” What a great truth that everyone needs to understand. The only successful year is when everyone is injury-free.

I want to thank all of you who have allowed me to be a part of your journey to zero injuries. I continue to hear from people who have heard my latest presentation, “Would You Watch Out For My Safety?” and read the accompanying book that it has had a major impact on how they watch out for themselves and others. We are about to go to our third printing in less than one year. Give us a call at 209-745-9419 and we can help your employees watch out for each other and enjoy it! Also when I speak at your location you can purchase the books at a significant discount.

Yours in Service,

John Drebinger

Places I will be speaking in the next few weeks

Call Diane Weiss at 209.745.9419 to have me come to your town.

Tuscaloosa AL, Kansas City KS, Halifax Nova Scotia, Pleasant Hill CA, McKittrick (Bakersfield) CA, Modesto CA

December 07, 2011

Safety Speaker John Drebinger’s Weekly Newsletter

In this week’s newsletter:

- Safety and the Unexpected

- An update on my future speaking schedule – save money and have me at your site

while I am in your area

- Website update information

Safety and the Unexpected

Having been a registered member of the Boy Scouts of America for over 49 years, I am very familiar with the slogan, “Be Prepared”. This last week, I was in Southern California working on our website. While I was there they had a record-setting windstorm. I know some of you live in areas where hurricane winds are more prevalent, but for Southern California these were some serious winds. As I write this almost one week after the storm, there are still people without power.

I can’t help but wonder how many of them were prepared. Did they have enough provisions to get through a prolonged period without power? I wonder how many people thought of the danger of using carbon monoxide if they chose to use camping stoves and lanterns indoors to provide light and cooking. Probably a good percentage of people were prepared because of the potential for earthquakes, yet I wonder if they thought of the safety issues brought on by a natural disaster or simply a storm.

I wonder how many people knew of the danger of downed power lines. I was amazed how many trees had fallen on Pasadena city streets. On my way home, I passed the remnants of a large tree that must have covered at least one lane of the freeway. What a surprise someone would have had if they were texting and suddenly came upon a tree in their lane.

What’s the point of all this? First, it is a good time to remind people of the advantage they have working for your company. Because they work for an organization that is committed to safety, they have a safety awareness that other people do not have. That safety focus protects them and their families even when the unexpected happens. I don’t think we discuss this enough. As a safety speaker, I make it a point when I give my talk to point out how lucky they are to be working with people who care about their safety.

Second, use this as a time to remind people of the importance of being prepared. Having safe emergency lighting, be it a flashlight or something fancy, could prevent a fall when getting help, which would make the situation even more difficult. You can think of what issues your people need to be prepared for and include it in your next safety briefing.

Have a Safe Christmas and Holiday Season.

Yours in Service,

John Drebinger

December 01, 2011

Safety Speaker John Drebinger’s Weekly Newsletter

In this week’s newsletter:

- Safety and the Holidays

- An update on my future speaking schedule – save money and have me at your site

when I am in your area

- Website update information

Safety and the Holidays

I hope you survived “Black Friday” safely. I don’t know how it was in your part of the world, but here in California there were some scary situations that happened. This creates what I call “Opportunity Teaching.” You can discuss news events at a safety meeting that illustrate a safety point. You could discuss the past events around Black Friday or you could discuss common hazards that come with the holiday season.

Christmas tree safety has several aspects. The electrical hazards of the lights and decorations on the tree are numerous. The fire hazard of a tree that gets too dry. The list goes on….

Outdoor decorations with cords all over the front lawn create a trip hazard. You can see that it doesn’t take much to come up with ideas. Interesting that these hazards are a part of many work places no matter what the season. So take this time to be timely and topical.

Toy safety comes to mind when I think of my two grandchildren. Remember to discuss how your college students will be coming home from school and going back after the holiday break. I fly my son back and forth or my wife drives back with him and then flies home. We just know that he will want to visit with as many friends as possible right up to the last day and driving 360 miles when your tired could be a disaster.

Have a safe Christmas and Holiday Season.

Yours in Service,

John Drebinger

Website Update Information

Sandie Gilbert and I have been working diligently on our website www.drebinger.com There will be some great improvements and tools you may use for free. Many more demo videos of my presentations will be on the site along with short videos you can use at a safety meeting free as a service from us. Keep checking the site and let me know what you think and if there are any changes that would be helpful to you.

Places I will be speaking in the next few weeks

Call Diane Weiss at 209.745.9419 to have me come to your town.

Tuscaloosa AL, Kansas City KS, Hailfax Nova Scotia, Pleasant Hill CA, Calipatria CA, West Lake LA, Concordville PA

Would You Like to Share This Article With Others?

This newsletter is published every week.  If you would like to share any of these articles go to http://www.drebinger.com/category/johns-blog/

where they have been posted on my daily blog. When reprinting or emailing please include credit to: John Drebinger Presentations 209-745-9419 and www.drebinger.com

Outcome Based Presentations For Your Safety Kickoff

“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?”

We tell everyone that they should be their “brother’s keeper” and yet we don’t teach them how to do it. This presentation which accompanies my new book by the same title is designed to create a culture in your workplace where watching out for each other is the norm rather than the exception.

“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?” will:

• Give people the five reasons they should watch out for the safety of others.
• Explain the three reasons people fail to watch out for the safety of others and then give them a perspective that will allow them to overcome the obstacles that keep people from helping others.
• Give them specific techniques they can use immediately to share safety with someone else in a way both people will feel great.
• Finally the most important lesson of the presentation is showing people how to respond when someone watches out for their safety. This lesson ensures that people will continue to watch out for each other and will seek out ways to watch out for the safety of their fellow worker.

This presentation is so powerful that John has written a book by the same title that is provided for each attendee so they can review what they have learned and share it with their family and friends. It has been so well-received that we have already made our second printing of 5,000 copies only four months after our releasing the book.

For more information Call 209-745-9419

“Ensure Your Safety”

If you want people to take personal responsibility for their own safetyon and off the job this presentation is for you.

Your employees will learn:

• Why they need to take personal responsibility for their own safety.
• How to stay focused in order to ensure safe performance.
• How distractions impact their personal safety.
• How to regain their focus on safety when distractions get in the way.
• Why they want to avoid shortcuts for themselves and others.

Everyone will develop a positive association between safety and their job and understand how working safely directly benefits them and their families, today and in the future. Using magic, group participation, specific safety principles and universal truths, John will show the seasoned worker why they play a vital role in helping the “new guy” work safely by avoiding shortcuts and doing everything the safest way we know how.

John shows them why using the appropriate personal protective equipment ensures their safety even when machinery fails or human errors occur. This presentation covers safety from the time they leave home to driving safely back to their family at the end of the day.

His unique presentation breaks through the mindset of,  “We have heard it all before.”  His magic captures their attention, and the message they hear will make them take action resulting in fewer injuries.

For more information Call 209-745-9419

“Safety as a Value”

In this completely different program, John shows your employees how to improve their own safety by sending the right message via their actions and words at work and home.

Your Employees Will Learn:

• What their real values are.
• How to convey those values to their family and friends.
• Safety is a value for everyone.

The key to his insightful approach is the premise that safety must be a personal value, and that values don’t change when conditions change, even in tough times. John will help your people raise their expectations, vision, passion, and energy to work safely and make a safer and more productive workplace.

With new stories and magic, this presentation will help your employees continue their enthusiasm and focus toward another year of safety success!

What do you want from a safety presentation?

• People to walk out saying, “That was the best safety meeting they have ever attended.”
• Everyone to talk about the safety meeting long after it is over.
• You want all of the above and most of all you want to get results. It doesn’t matter if everyone loved the speaker, their message, and yet they don’t change how they work.

John Drebinger is the only top safety speaker specifically trained to deliver an effective message. In addition to his Bachelors degree in Speech he has been a member of the National Speaker’s Association for over 16 years and has attended seminars from some of the most effective communicators in the nation.

From the descriptions listed above you have already noticed something that separates John Drebinger from other professional safety speakers. As an author and speaker he has many different presentations he can do for your employees. To help you deliver your safety message John customizes each of his presentations to convey your theme and concepts. Unlike many other safety speakers who have only one speech or story to tell, John has developed presentations that build on each other to help you improve your safety performance.

Logistics

John can do multiple presentations during the day so that all your shifts can hear his outstanding message. Diane Weiss his marketing director can help you with your scheduling as she has worked with hundreds of companies over the past twenty-one years and knows what will serve you best.

John’s presentations can be done in virtually any location. If you can safely gather an audience he can get his message to them.

These presentations are designed for employee meetings with 45 minutes to 1-hour time available. Call 209-745-9419 today to reserve your date.

Leadership Support For Safety – Tuesday, November 22nd

Is Your Leadership Prepared to Support Your Safety Efforts?

In my talk, “Would You Watch Out For My Safety,” I point out how we have told people for years, “Be your brother’s keeper.” Yet, we don’t teach them how. In many ways, we do the same to our leadership, whether it is the first line supervisor or the CEO of the company.

Over the years, I have seen safety teams promote teaching people how to work safely. They organize great activities that encourage and motivate people to take on safety as one of their personal values. On the other hand, they spend very little time helping their leadership to be successful safety advocates.

Several years ago, I was asked to develop a special program for the leadership of a corporation. The president of the company called the meeting (so you knew everyone was going to attend) at which I spent several hours. The content of the meeting included committing those who may not already understand safety as a value to embrace it. I also attacked the mistaken belief that “accidents happen,” which some people still believe.

Next, I taught how to make safety a value for them and those who work for and with them.  Not everyone is good at sharing values and also it is common for people who hold safety as a value to send mixed messages that confuse those around them.

We then discussed their role as a safety leader. Often, leaders who hold safety as a value, fail to understand that they are in fact the real safety leader. They mistakenly assume the safety department or team is responsible.

If you want to sharpen the safety leadership skills of your management team have me come to your site and do my talk, “Safety For Leaders.” You will be pleased with the level of commitment and the skill your leadership will have in communicating a great safety message.

Many companies who are bringing me to their site to speak to employees have me come a month ahead to meet with the leaders to help them make the upcoming event a success.

Yours in service,

John Drebinger

Would You Like to Share This Article With Others?

This newsletter is the 10^th in a series of ten on how to have an effective safety kickoff. If you would like to share any of these articles go to http://www.drebinger.com/?page_id=690

where they have been posted on my daily blog. When reprinting or emailing please include credit to: John Drebinger Presentations 209-745-9419 and www.drebinger.com

Outcome Based Presentations For Your Safety Kickoff

“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?”
We tell everyone that they should be their “brothers keeper” and yet we don’t teach them how to do it. This presentation which accompanies my new book by the same title is designed to create a culture in your workplace where watching out for each other is the norm rather than the exception.

“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?” will:
• Give people the five reasons they should watch out for the safety of others.
• Explain the three reasons people fail to watch out for the safety of others and then give them a perspective that will allow them to overcome the obstacles that keep people from helping others.
• Give them specific techniques they can use immediately to share safety with someone else in a way both people will feel great.
• Finally the most important lesson of the presentation is showing people how to respond when someone watches out for their safety. This lesson ensures that people will continue to watch out for each other and will seek out ways to watch out for the safety of their fellow worker.

This presentation is so powerful that John has written a book by the same title that is provided for each attendee so they can review what they have learned and share it with their family and friends. It has been so well-received that we have already made our second printing of 5,000 copies only four months after our releasing the book.

“Ensure Your Safety”
If you want people to take personal responsibility for their own safety on and off the job this presentation is for you.

Your employees will learn:
• Why they need to take personal responsibility for their own safety.
• How to stay focused in order to ensure safe performance.
• How distractions impact their personal safety.
• How to regain their focus on safety when distractions get in the way.
• Why they want to avoid shortcuts for themselves and others.

Everyone will develop a positive association between safety and their job and understand how working safely directly benefits them and their families, today and in the future. Using magic, group participation, specific safety principles and universal truths, John will show the seasoned worker why they play a vital role in helping the “new guy” work safely by avoiding shortcuts and doing everything the safest way we know how.

John shows them why using the appropriate personal protective equipment ensures their safety even when machinery fails or human errors occur. This presentation covers safety from the time they leave home to driving safely back to their family at the end of the day.
His unique presentation breaks through the mindset of, “We have heard it all before.” His magic captures their attention, and the message they hear will make them take action resulting in fewer injuries.

“Safety as a Value”
In this completely different program, John shows your employees how to improve their own safety by sending the right message via their actions and words at work and home.

Your Employees Will Learn:
• What their real values are.
• How to convey those values to their family and friends.
• Safety is a value for everyone.

The key to his insightful approach is the premise that safety must be a personal value, and that values don’t change when conditions change, even in tough times. John will help your people raise their expectations, vision, passion, and energy to work safely and make a safer and more productive workplace.

With new stories and magic, this presentation will help your employees continue their enthusiasm and focus toward another year of safety success!

What do you want from a safety presentation?
• People to walk out saying, “That was the best safety meeting they have ever attended.”
• Everyone to talk about the safety meeting long after it is over.
• You want all of the above and most of all you want to get results. It doesn’t matter if everyone loved the speaker, their message, and yet they don’t change how they work.

John Drebinger is the only top safety speaker specifically trained to deliver an effective message. In addition to his Bachelors degree in Speech he has been a member of the National Speaker’s Association for over 16 years and has attended seminars from some of the most effective communicators in the nation.

From the descriptions listed above you have already noticed something that separates John Drebinger from other professional safety speakers. As an author and speaker he has many different presentations he can do for your employees. To help you deliver your safety message John customizes each of his presentations to convey your theme and concepts. Unlike many other safety speakers who have only one speech or story to tell, John has developed presentations that build on each other to help you improve your safety performance.

Logistics
John can do multiple presentations during the day so that all your shifts can hear his outstanding message. Diane Weiss his marketing director can help you with your scheduling as she has worked with hundreds of companies over the past twenty-one years and knows what will serve you best.

John’s presentations can be done in virtually any location. If you can safely gather an audience he can get his message to them.

These presentations are designed for employee meetings with 45 minutes to 1-hour time available.

Thanksgiving and Safety

Tuesday, November 15^th

Thanksgiving for Safety Performance

In January, we celebrate the safety successes of the previous year and commit to a better year ahead. Next week, we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. This week will be a great opportunity to remind people to give thanks for the safety performance we have had over the last year. Also, remind people that even if you have had fewer injuries than the year before, it was still a bad year for those who sustained an injury.

Remember, even if you didn’t have a better year than last year, it is important to realize that without everyone’s commitment to safety there would have been many more people hurt and certainly more severe injuries.

It is also worthwhile to give thanks for close calls that were not injuries. Too often, people fail to appreciate that a close call or a property damage event could have been much worse if not for luck or the grace of God, depending on how you look at the world.

Being Grateful For Those Who Watched Out For You

Another area to recognize is to think of those with whom you work who watched out for your safety over the past year. Make sure you thank them for caring enough to watch out for you and say something or take action.

Thanks From John Drebinger

I am thankful for the privilege of writing this newsletter to help you prevent injuries on and off the job. I appreciate the time you invest in reading this and I am especially thankful for all of you who have contacted me during the year telling me how you have used the information you have gained from this newsletter.

I am also grateful for each and every one of you who have given me the opportunity to speak in person to your fellow employees. I know it takes a great amount of faith to bring in an outside speaker and I thank you for that trust.

I am thankful for each and every audience I have been in front of this year. Whether it was a room of one thousand or five people in a control room, I value each and every audience member.

I am thankful for those of you who will be bringing me to your site this coming year. I look forward to helping your people watch out for each other’s safety.

Last but not least, I am grateful to Diane Weiss, Sandie Gilbert and my wife, Karen Drebinger, who handle all the arrangements so I can efficiently move around this world spreading the message of safety.

Thanks for what you do to get people home safely every day.

Yours in service,

John Drebinger

Would You Like to Share This Article With Others?

This newsletter is published every week.  If you would like to share any of these articles go to http://www.drebinger.com/?page_id=690

where they have been posted on my daily blog. When reprinting or emailing please include credit to: John Drebinger Presentations 209-745-9419 and www.drebinger.com

Outcome Based Presentations For Your Safety Kickoff

“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?”
We tell everyone that they should be their “brothers keeper” and yet we don’t teach them how to do it. This presentation which accompanies my new book by the same title is designed to create a culture in your workplace where watching out for each other is the norm rather than the exception.

“Would You Watch Out For My Safety?” will:
• Give people the five reasons they should watch out for the safety of others.
• Explain the three reasons people fail to watch out for the safety of others and then give them a perspective that will allow them to overcome the obstacles that keep people from helping others.
• Give them specific techniques they can use immediately to share safety with someone else in a way both people will feel great.
• Finally the most important lesson of the presentation is showing people how to respond when someone watches out for their safety. This lesson ensures that people will continue to watch out for each other and will seek out ways to watch out for the safety of their fellow worker.

This presentation is so powerful that John has written a book by the same title that is provided for each attendee so they can review what they have learned and share it with their family and friends. It has been so well-received that we have already made our second printing of 5,000 copies only four months after our releasing the book.

“Ensure Your Safety”
If you want people to take personal responsibility for their own safety on and off the job this presentation is for you.

Your employees will learn:
• Why they need to take personal responsibility for their own safety.
• How to stay focused in order to ensure safe performance.
• How distractions impact their personal safety.
• How to regain their focus on safety when distractions get in the way.
• Why they want to avoid shortcuts for themselves and others.

Everyone will develop a positive association between safety and their job and understand how working safely directly benefits them and their families, today and in the future. Using magic, group participation, specific safety principles and universal truths, John will show the seasoned worker why they play a vital role in helping the “new guy” work safely by avoiding shortcuts and doing everything the safest way we know how.

John shows them why using the appropriate personal protective equipment ensures their safety even when machinery fails or human errors occur. This presentation covers safety from the time they leave home to driving safely back to their family at the end of the day.
His unique presentation breaks through the mindset of, “We have heard it all before.” His magic captures their attention, and the message they hear will make them take action resulting in fewer injuries.

“Safety as a Value”
In this completely different program, John shows your employees how to improve their own safety by sending the right message via their actions and words at work and home.

Your Employees Will Learn:
• What their real values are.
• How to convey those values to their family and friends.
• Safety is a value for everyone.

The key to his insightful approach is the premise that safety must be a personal value, and that values don’t change when conditions change, even in tough times. John will help your people raise their expectations, vision, passion, and energy to work safely and make a safer and more productive workplace.

With new stories and magic, this presentation will help your employees continue their enthusiasm and focus toward another year of safety success!

What do you want from a safety presentation?
• People to walk out saying, “That was the best safety meeting they have ever attended.”
• Everyone to talk about the safety meeting long after it is over.
• You want all of the above and most of all you want to get results. It doesn’t matter if everyone loved the speaker, their message, and yet they don’t change how they work.

John Drebinger is the only top safety speaker specifically trained to deliver an effective message. In addition to his Bachelors degree in Speech he has been a member of the National Speaker’s Association for over 16 years and has attended seminars from some of the most effective communicators in the nation.

From the descriptions listed above you have already noticed something that separates John Drebinger from other professional safety speakers. As an author and speaker he has many different presentations he can do for your employees. To help you deliver your safety message John customizes each of his presentations to convey your theme and concepts. Unlike many other safety speakers who have only one speech or story to tell, John has developed presentations that build on each other to help you improve your safety performance.

Logistics
John can do multiple presentations during the day so that all your shifts can hear his outstanding message. Diane Weiss his marketing director can help you with your scheduling as she has worked with hundreds of companies over the past twenty-one years and knows what will serve you best.

John’s presentations can be done in virtually any location. If you can safely gather an audience he can get his message to them.

These presentations are designed for employee meetings with 45 minutes to 1-hour time available.