Safety Keynotes

You probably have a solid, well-established written safety program. Your people know what they’re supposed to do. But are they doing it? Breakdowns in safety often occur because of the persistent, yet sometimes hidden, emphasis on productivity over safety, and employee indifference to safe job procedures. These persistent problems can be resolved! It requires simple, consistent actions as part of a long-term commitment to positive safety cultures.

In this inspirational introduction to the science of positive psychology, learn about the research results that prove happiness leads to greater safety success. Come away with applicable skills that will fuel your personal engagement and create positive contagion amongst the people you influence.

The field of positive psychology research has massively expanded our understanding of human potential. We now know that happiness is key to successful outcomes in all aspects of life. And anyone can increase their level of happiness by implementing skills uncovered by scientific research. Organizations that commit to positive culture change can reap the proven benefit of reduced injury rates and less disability, both of which contribute to a better bottom line.

If your company knows “what to do”, but too often finds staff and management fail to do it, you will come away with new insights about how to powerfully engage employees and create impactful, effective corporate culture.

Participants will learn 21st Century Leadership qualities:

• How to win hearts and minds
• Alignment of vision and action
• Leading by example
• Drive attention to what matters
• Practical tools to put into action right away

In this session you’ll learn a simple framework for change management and operations and safety leadership. The 4-S Model explains how to assess, develop strategy, and implement change within a team, department, or organization.

It includes Skills, Systems, (Psychological) Safety, and Shared Commitment. You will learn how to leverage each of these decisive drivers as part of your leadership toolkit. You will learn about operations and safety applications through a case study in which we used this model to drive $3M in savings with an 80% reduction in cost of claims for a mid-size trucking company.

This is a perfect session for insurance, heavy industry, transportation, or safety focused conferences or training.

In this high-impact session, we’ll explore how emotional intelligence—the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions in ourselves and others—directly drives safety and operational excellence. In industries where one mistake can cost lives, equipment, or millions of dollars, the ability to stay calm under pressure, read your people, and respond with clarity is not just a “soft skill”—it’s a competitive advantage.

We’ll break down how the brain processes stress and emotion in high-risk situations and how that impacts split-second decision making, hazard awareness, and communication on the floor or in the field. You’ll leave with science-based tools for staying composed under pressure, building trust, and fostering a culture where people speak up before accidents happen.

This session will equip you to:

• Understand emotional intelligence and its components—self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, and relationship management—in the context of safety and operations. Apply proven techniques to improve hazard recognition, decision making, and communication through emotionally intelligent leadership.
• Develop daily practices and routines that reduce risk, strengthen team accountability, and embed safety into your operating culture.

The outcome: leaders and teams who operate with sharper awareness, greater resilience, and stronger commitment to safety—turning emotional intelligence into a force multiplier for operational performance.

Can you think of examples of companies with excellent programs on paper and persistently disastrous safety outcomes? This talk powerfully changes perspective on what a good program looks like. Having a check mark of approval from your local workers’ compensation body looks good, but it doesn’t reflect real safety culture.

Drawing on his personal experience helping one company turn its safety record around, Paul and Jackson shows how leaders can translate their written program into truly safe workplaces. This real world example powerfully moves safety culture from scientific theory to an attainable goal for any company and any industry.

Genuine cultural transformation is available. See the potential in your own workplace. Imagine a future in which each staff member volunteers their heart and mind, and not just the labour of their bodies.

Culture is found in the conversation—the basic human relationships that form the context in which work is done. This talk shows exactly how companies can move from good in theory to good in practice. Based on real life work, see how culture can be practically changed. Learn, step by step, a complete approach to changing the human-to-human dynamic in a workplace setting.

Funny, dramatic and, at the same time, do-able! Walk away with a whole new concept of what constitutes a culture of safety!

The best safety systems have little application if workers are distracted and unfocused as they do their work. And we are all distracted these days. We are busier than ever, constantly considering our to-do lists, our relationships, our future worries and our past challenges. Combine this constant mental chatter with the perils of routine, repetitive work tasks and you have a recipe for disaster.

The secret weapon against distractions from safety is mindfulness. Mindfulness is as important for your brain as exercise and nutrition are for your body. To be mindful is to be fully present with what is actually happening in the moment. Everyone can learn shortcuts to being focused, on task and holding distracting thoughts and emotions at a distance.

Based on real mindfulness programs taught to the hardest, toughest industrial workers—logging crews on the wild west coast of British Columbia—this talk explains how mindfulness can be made a part of every safety program.

As one of our’s many inspirational speeches, this presentation explains what mindfulness is, why it’s important for everyone and how to implement it. It will leave your team motivated to make change.