• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SafetyRisk.net

Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk

  • Home
    • About
      • Privacy Policy
      • Contact
  • FREE
    • Slogans
      • Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time
      • When Slogans Don’t Work
      • CLASSIC, FAMOUS and INFAMOUS SAFETY QUOTES
      • 500 OF THE BEST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2023
      • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
      • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
      • Safety Acronyms
      • You know Where You Can Stick Your Safety Slogans
      • Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple
      • Spanish Safety Slogans – Consignas de seguridad
      • Safety Slogans List
      • Road Safety Slogans 2023
      • How to write your own safety slogans
      • Why Are Safety Slogans Important
      • Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
      • 40 Free Safety Slogans For the Workplace
      • Safety Slogans for Work
    • FREE SAFETY eBOOKS
    • Free Hotel and Resort Risk Management Checklist
    • FREE DOWNLOADS
    • TOP 50
    • FREE RISK ASSESSMENT FORMS
    • Find a Safety Consultant
    • Free Safety Program Documents
    • Psychology Of Safety
    • Safety Ideas That Work
    • HEALTH and SAFETY MANUALS
    • FREE SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENT RESOURCES
    • Whats New In Safety
    • FUN SAFETY STUFF
    • Health and Safety Training
    • SAFETY COURSES
    • Safety Training Needs Analysis and Matrix
    • Top 20 Safety Books
    • This Toaster Is Hot
    • Free Covid-19 Toolbox Talks
    • Download Page – Please Be Patient With Larger Files…….
    • SAFETY IMAGES, Photos, Unsafe Pictures and Funny Fails
    • How to Calculate TRIFR, LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators
    • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat
  • Social Psychology Of Risk
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Safety Psychology Terminology
    • Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk – Prof Karl E. Weick
    • The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
    • Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk
    • The Psychology of Conversion – 20 Tips to get Started
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety
    • Psychology and safety
    • The Psychology of Safety
    • Hot Toaster
    • TALKING RISK VIDEOS
    • WHAT IS SAFETY
    • THE HOT TOASTER
    • THE ZERO HARM DEBATE
    • SEMIOTICS
    • LEADERSHIP
  • Dr Long Posts
    • ALL POSTS
    • Learning Styles Matter
    • There is no Hierarchy of Controls
    • Scaffolding, Readiness and ZPD in Learning
    • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
    • Presentation Tips for Safety People
    • Dialogue Do’s and Don’ts
    • It’s Only a Symbol
    • Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
    • Zero is Unethical
    • First Report on Zero Survey
    • There is No Objectivity, Deal With it!
  • THEMES
    • Risk Myths
    • Safety Myths
    • Safety Culture Silences
    • Safety Culture
    • Psychological Health and Safety
    • Zero Harm
    • Due Diligence
  • Free Learning
    • Introduction to SPoR – Free
    • FREE RISK and SAFETY EBOOKS
    • FREE ebook – Guidance for the beginning OHS professional
    • Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
    • Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
  • Psychological Safety
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Managing psychosocial hazards at work
    • Psychological Safety – has it become the next Maslow’s hammer?
    • What is Psychosocial Safety
    • Psychological Safety Slogans and Quotes
    • What is Psychological Safety?
    • Understanding Psychological Terminology
    • Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
    • Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
    • It’s not weird – it’s a psychological safety initiative!
You are here: Home / Robert Long / Presentation Tips for Safety People

Presentation Tips for Safety People

July 29, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Presentation Tips for Safety People

Please also consider our latest learning article: Learning Styles Matter

Teacher showing There is safety in numbers on blackboard

What is the point of knowing the Act, regulation, systems, procedures and standards if you either can’t communicate or help others learn? Poor pedagogy (theory of teaching) is one of the main reasons why the safety message doesn’t get across indeed, sometimes it drives the very opposite. Poor pedagogy can encourage people not to listen, drives the illusion that they have listened and desensitizes people toward all messages in safety.

When I taught Introduction to Teaching in the Faculty of Education in a previous life I always started lecture 1 day 1 with the question: what is learning all about? Often I would get the response that it was about content and curriculum. I then suggested that if one believed learning was about content, they shouldn’t go into teaching. I often suggested I would help them get out of teaching before they incurred a HECS debt and later learnt that kids wouldn’t like them. Learning is not about content but about relationships. If relationship is motivating and inspiring you will be able to learn anything. Some also believe that teaching is about ‘technique’. Good technique is only successful when relationships are healthy.

My children used to come home from school and I never asked them what they learned, I usually asked them if they had a happy day, had they had fun and who they played with. If people experience meaningful and positive relationships, are respected as people not objects and engaged in purpose, they will be inspired and motivated to learn.

It is amazing how safety believes that lecture and telling is learning. No wonder people feel they achieve nothing in toolbox talks and inductions. Like so much that is left out of safety training pedagogy is critical for safety people. If I had my way I would take all parrot training about the Act, regulation, standards and systems out of WHS training and shift the focus onto people. All spoon feeding and ‘dumb down’ training creates dependent dumb down outcomes.

So, if you want some tips about presentation of safety here are a few tips:

  1. Maintaining healthy and respectful relationships should be the foundation of safety engagement and motivation for ownership.
  2. The last kind of person people listen to is a safety crusader. The crusader is on a campaign, always freaking out about ‘pissy’ things and adopts the modus operandi of dominating and controlling others. Their motto is: ‘I know what is best for you’.
  3. Learn some of the fundamentals of effective communication and consultation.
  4. Learn how to ask open questions. People know that rhetorical begs the answer that the presenter knows is right, it is fake questioning.

  5. Don’t be predictable or fall into patterns that simply bore people off their feet. Be imaginative, creative and consult brilliant presenters and ask them what they do.

  6. Don’t mistake entertainment for education or indoctrination for education. Parrot learning is not learning.

  7. Create an environment and climate that is non-judgmental and interesting.

  8. Try to ‘scaffold’ learning, make small wins and build on them rather than massive content dumps that simply flood people and achieve nothing.

  9. Endeavour to ‘meet’ people outside of the classroom setting, take an interest in people and what interests them.

  10. Try to diversify your method of presentation, some tips are in the table Figure 1. Methods of Presentation.

Figure 1. Methods of Presentation

image

The place to start with improving presentation to others is not technique or content but knowing self and how to develop relationships. In the Human Dymensions Presentations Skills Four Day Workshop we firstly diagnose your own learning style before we map it against Gardner’s 8 learning styles represented below in Figure 2. Gardner’s Eight Learning Styles.

Figure 2. Gardner’s Eight Learning Styles.

image

Before safety people just go grabbing at any technique that may seem entertaining some thinking about the fundamentals of learning is required. Presentations that target only one learning style or technique are most likely going to be ineffective. I cover some of this in Risk Makes Sense on Learning About Learning and in latest book on The Zone of Reciprocation in Following-Leading in Risk. In our training we use a range of micro-training (Video) techniques to improve style and method but these only work when the fundamentals of 1-9 in the list above are in place.

  • Bio
  • Latest Posts
  • More about Rob
Dr Rob Long

Dr Rob Long

Expert in Social Psychology, Principal & Trainer at Human Dymensions
Dr Rob Long

Latest posts by Dr Rob Long (see all)

  • Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual) - January 23, 2023
  • What is SPoR? - January 23, 2023
  • How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety - January 23, 2023
  • Afraid to Let Go of What Doesn’t Work in Safety - January 17, 2023
  • When You Don’t Know What to do in Safety, Have Another Blitz!!! - January 13, 2023
Dr Rob Long
PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.

Please share our posts

  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Procedures, Safety Training Tagged With: learning, pedagogy, Safety Presentations, teaching, tips

Reader Interactions

Do you have any thoughts? Please share them below Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Search and Discover More on this Site

Never miss a post - Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,495 other subscribers

Introduction to SPOR – FREE!!

SAFETY MYTHS SERIES

The Mythic Symbology of Safety

Posture Myths and Holistic Ergonomics

Safety Mythbusters

Don’t Be Emotional! Another Safety Myth

Tackling the Challenge of Heuristics in Safety

The Myth of Normal

NEW! Free Download

Please take our 2 minute zero survey

Recent Comments

  • Rob long on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • Matt Thorne on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • Anonymous on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • Jason on How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Rob Long on How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Admin on How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Rob Long on 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Gustavo Saralegui on 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Rob long on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Wynand on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Rob Long on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • simon cassin on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Rob Long on Records of safety activities: evidence of safety or non-compliance?
  • Matt Thorne on Free Online Workshops
  • Rob long on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Brian Edwin Darlington on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Risk Diversity on Book Launch – For the Love of Zero – in Portuguese
  • Rob Long on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Risk Culture Builder on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Mark Taylor on All Things Must Pass in Risk

FREE eBOOK DOWNLOADS

Footer

VIRAL POST – The Risk Matrix Myth

Top Posts & Pages. Sad that most are so dumb but this is what safety luves

  • Road Safety Slogans 2023
  • 500 OF THE BEST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2023
  • Free Safety Moments and Toolbox Talk Examples, Tips and Resources
  • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat
  • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
  • How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • What Is Safety?
  • Safety Acronyms
  • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
  • 15 Safety Precautions When Working With Electricity

Recent Posts

  • Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • What is SPoR?
  • How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Afraid to Let Go of What Doesn’t Work in Safety
  • When You Don’t Know What to do in Safety, Have Another Blitz!!!
  • Gloves and Glasses Compliance
  • A Case of Desensitisation – What Would You Do?
  • How to Leave the Safety Industry
  • The Mythic Symbology of Safety
  • Dark Waters, The True Story of DuPont and Zero
  • 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Am I stupid? I didn’t think of that…
  • Don’t Look Now Safety, Your Metaphor is Showing
  • Ratio Delusions and Heinrich’s Hoax
  • To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Culture as a Wicked Problem, for Safety
  • Safety Leadership Training
  • Cultural Orientation in Risk
  • The Stanford Experiment and The Social Psychology of Risk
  • Objectivity, Audits and Attribution When Calculating Risk
  • Records of safety activities: evidence of safety or non-compliance?
  • Zero, The Seeking of Infinity
  • Safety Leadership Essentials
  • What Can Indiana Jones Tell Us About Culture
  • Safety as a Worldview
  • The Loathing of Limits
  • Culture Cannot be Framed Through Safety
  • Free Online Workshops
  • Safety Culture–Hudson’s Model
  • Book Launch – For the Love of Zero – in Portuguese
  • Advancing Backwards in Safety
  • The ‘Noise’ of Safety, Silence and Practicing of Mindfulness
  • All Things Must Pass in Risk
  • I’m just not that into safety anymore
  • Sticks and Stones and the Nonsense of Zero Harm
  • Courting Infallibility in Safety
  • Indicators of Risk
  • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
  • No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Just as Well Culture Doesn’t Listen to Safety
  • What Are the Benefits Of Social Psychology of Risk?
  • Short-Sighted Lenses by Safety
  • Is Safety the Empire of Non-Sense?
  • No Wonder Safety is Confused About Culture
  • Building High Performance Safety Cultures
  • Understanding iCue, a Visual, Verbal, Semiotic Method for Tackling Risk
  • On Culture and Safety
  • Focus on ‘Meeting’ people, not legislation – a path to risk maturity
  • The Moral Harm of the Zero Cult
  • The New Leadership – Risk and Safety

VIRAL POST!!! HOW TO QUIT THE SAFETY INDUSTRY

FEATURED POSTS

Turning Neuroscience into Behaviourism

Confirmity in Conformity

Natural Born Learners

The Less You See, the More Likely to Die

Zero ‘Arm

There is Another Ethic than Zero Accidents

Envisioning Risk in Canada

Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War?

A Letter To The Editor

Safety Doesn’t Need Military Language

The Real Barriers to Safety

Safety People Don’t ‘Save Lives’

Why Would You Talk That Way?

Safety Investigation – Whodunit?

The Fear of Power and the Power of Fear

A Question of Ethics

Do we Need a Different Way of Being in Safety?

What Are the Benefits Of Social Psychology of Risk?

The Safety Spoilsport

Incommensurability and Discourse in Risk

The Hero Myth in Modern Management

‘Man Up’ Safety

Zero Discourse and Perfectionism

Coping With Paradox and Ambiguity in Safety

So, You Want Culture Change

Traditional Safety

Culture About Much More Than Structure

Face-to-Face Safety

A Masters Degree in ‘Tick and Flick’

Psychometric Testing and Safety

Incident Investigations and the Einstellung Effect

Chronic Unease is Not Enough

The Challenge of Social Sensemaking in Risk

Anxiety and Fear Professionals

Semiotics and Safety

Safety as Ritual Performance

And the Innovation is? More Controls…..

Lemmings for Lemmings in Leadership and Risk

I’m Not Playing Any More

Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk

More Posts from this Category

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,495 other subscribers

How we pay for the high cost of running of this site – try it for free on your site

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY?

What is Psychological Safety at Work?