You've been to safety meetings that miss the mark - boring, disengaging, forgettable. One-hour meetings or full-day stand-down events, safety meetings are not fun. But is the safety meeting the most efficient tool in getting employees to quickly embrace the safety program? This book is designed to help you build safety meetings that work. The Perfect Safety Meeting is packed full of ideas, tips and strategies including: - where you should hold your safety meetings - who gets to speak at your safety meetings - seating and room set-up and why it matters - the biggest mistake that safety meetings make - and much more. As a consultant and presenter for nearly twenty years, Kevin Burns has seen it all. The insights he shares in this book will help you build a safety meeting that works. The Perfect Safety Meeting will transform your safety meetings from legal requirement to can't-miss events that engage employees, create buzz - and ultimately -get employees to buy in to safety.
About the Author: Kevin Burns, management consultant, author and safety speaker delivers a positive solution to improve safety engagement, personal leadership skills and buy-in to safety. Getting people to buy-in to safety takes a unique approach. The biggest challenge for any safety department is to constantly find new ways to keep employees engaged in safety that don't involve gruesome photos and injury stories. Safety, to employees, is boring and restrictive. They resist buying-in to a program of checks, forms, paperwork and fear-based tactics. Is it any surprise that employees are resistant when they see safety presented as nothing more than that? Kevin Burns changes that. He helps employees see the light and come to safety willingly. He helps people make better choices and choose safety as one of their personal values. Kevin makes safety fun, engaging, easily understood and positive, all while aligning with and supporting your safety program. Kevin Burns is an expert in how to get through to people - how to talk with them so they hear and understand. Here's what working with Kevin can help your organization do: - better engagement and buy-in to safety, - reduced policing and rules enforcement, - increased teamwork and camaraderie, - better communication and openness, - lower turnover and reduced attrition, - better staff attraction and retention, - improved profile as an employer of choice, - better margins and profits from production. Kevin Burns frames safety in a way that your people have never heard before. Kevin helps increase your safety program's success.