Humour in Safety

1. Humour in Safety By: Tim Page-Bottorff

2. Introduction • Name • Organization • What you like to do on the weekends. • Does your partner have a bad habit?

3. Humour Fits for The Following: • Topic • WHMIS • Any Compliance Training • Instructor • Boring • No Passion • Environment/Classroom • Poor learning conditions • Awkward Students • Many Others for Discussion

4. Problem: Topic • Safety Material is Dry • Creating a program is too much work • Regulations are cumbersome • Golf story • 95% of golf played vs. • 95% of golf trained

5. Safety Material is Dry Creating a program is too much work Regulations are cumbersome Golf story 95% of golf played vs. 95% of golf trained Solution: Topic • Group Activity • Personality Issue • Yes They are get over it • Train your people before they get the “I am too safe attitude.”

6. Example: Topic • Traffic Control and Flagging • Unsafe Acts and Conditions • Driving Distractions • Top 10 • Name the top 10 driving distractions. • Put them in order.

7. The Distractions • 16% - Rubbernecking! (usually at another accident) • 12% - Fatigue • 10% - Looking at scenery / landmarks • 9% - Passenger or child distraction • 7% - Adjusting radio, tape or cd • 5% - Using a cell phone • Source: Study of 2700 accidents from 06/06 to 11/06, • Washington Post, March 17, 2007

8. Where does this fit on the list?

9. The Learning Pyramid Average retention of material presented in different ways (according to an investigation by National Training Laboratories — Bethel, Maine) Lecture 5% Reading Text 10% Audio-visual representation 20% Demonstration 30% Discussion group 50% Learning by doing 75% (immediate conversion of Teaching others 90% what you have learned)

10. Problem: Instructor • Instructor reads from a book • Instructor was forced to do it • Instructor is a CIH or CRSP • Instructor has no passion

11. Reading from a book You HAVE to do it. Instructor is CSP, CIH, RSP, CHMM, CRSP No Passion Solution: Instructor • Spend more time preparing • Think of the positives. • Does not make you a great trainer. • GET IT! • Use Humour

12. Example: Instructor • Learn by Doing • Research • Understand • Find something that is important to you

13. Problem: Environment/Classroom • Break Rooms/Ready Rooms • Distractions • Outdoors • Sun/Rain/Weather • Class room shape and setup • Audio/Visuals

14. Break Rooms Outdoors Setup Audio/Visuals/Technology Solution: Environment/Classroom • Find another location • Go outside • Deal with it, minimize distractions • Avoid excessive heat • Go into a warehouse, • See Diagram

15. Example: seating arrangement Improves overall retention by 10%

16. Technology with High Impact Video Clips

17. Higher Impact Videos (Tyre)

18. Highest Impact Video (Horse)

19. Offset with Comedy

20. The Awkward Student • The Rescuer • The Projector • The Passive Aggressor • The Apologizer • The Fighter • The Flighter • The Questioner • The PARTICIPANT • The Not Again Student

21. My Personal Strategies • Tell a story • Talk about family • Talk about interests and rope into the topic; (almost always can relate) • Ask questions (not too many) • KNOW Your topic! • Work harder. • Stay up to date on technology and changes to the material. • Keep your material fresh. • Group Discussions!!!! • Tell Someone else about your experience

22. The Learning Pyramid Average retention of material presented in different ways (according to an investigation by National Training Laboratories — Bethel, Maine) Lecture 5% Reading Text 10% Audio-visual representation 20% Demonstration 30% Discussion group 50% Learning by doing 75% (immediate conversion of Teaching others 90% what you have learned)

23. One Final Secret • Integrated Material for example. • Get Permission and Use Safestart Principals.

24. Most Accidents Have Many Contributing Factors Hazardous Energy Hazardous Energy Something Unexpected A Person or Persons

25. Sources of Unexpected…… Self - Own actions cause or contribute to incident/injury. Other People - someone else's behavior causes or contributes to incident/injury. Equipment - something unexpected happens without you or someone else involved (e.g. wire rope breaks, traffic lights start working incorrectly, coupling fails, hose bursts, etc.)

26. Sources of Unexpected…… Equipment - something unexpected happens without you or someone else involved (e.g. wire rope breaks, traffic lights start working incorrectly, coupling fails, hose bursts, etc.)

27. Defective Equipment

28. Sources of Unexpected…… Other People - someone else's behavior causes or contributes to incident/injury.

29. The “Other Guy”

30. Sources of Unexpected…… Self - Own actions cause or contribute to incident/injury.

31. Ourselves

32. What Do You Think the Percentages Would Be For Each Category? % Self? % Other People? % Equipment?

33. The Learning Pyramid Average retention of material presented in different ways (according to an investigation by National Training Laboratories — Bethel, Maine) Lecture 5% Reading Text 10% Audio-visual representation 20% Demonstration 30% Discussion group 50% Learning by doing 75% (immediate conversion of Teaching others 90% what you have learned)

35. Contact Info • Office: 800-267-7482 • Cell: 602-757-5054 • Email: tpbottorff@cox.net • Thank You So Much! Have a great conference.