Steve Burke

Summer 2012 - The Public Manager

A Currency of Competency at Treasury

“Ouch! My Back! The agonizing pain!!!!!” This is the sound of someone getting injured at work. Private industry employers reported nearly 3.0 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2012 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. OSHA cites that employers pay almost $1 billion per week for direct workers' compensation costs alone. It is clear that too many people are getting hurt at work. So what is being done about it?
In the rare event safety training is provided at your organization, in most cases you might as well be going to the dentist, as the workshops are usually as bad as having teeth pulled! These trainings are often drawn out PowerPoint lectures that are lackluster at best. Think Ferris Bueller’s Economics teacher for 8 hours...Bueller...
Safety is critical to organizational health. Safety directly affects employee morale, profitability and organizational effectiveness. Our goal is to show you how safety training can be FUN! Having fun with safety training encourages retention of knowledge and makes it more likely that the lessons will be applied in the workplace.
This webinar is focused on walking you through how to facilitate safety training that sticks. We will demonstrate how to:

Use the game Operation to work through electrical safety
Take an everyday stapler and turn it into the latest greatest safety tool
Build safety superheroes
Go on safety scavenger hunts and most importantly engage your workforce in a way that makes it impossible for them to forget their experience.  
