393790 Safety Communication: What Works Best

Monday, September 15, 2014: 3:30 PM
Fiestas (Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires)
T. J. Larkin, Larkin Communication Consulting, New York, NY

Dr TJ Larkin, an expert in employee communication, will show the effectiveness of different types of safety communication.  For example:
  • safety posters reduce accidents by 2%
  • classroom safety courses reduce accidents by 5%
  • large corporate safety campaigns reduce accidents by 13%
  • face-to-face communication, delivered by the supervisor to his/her frontline team, reduces accidents by 42%

Dr Larkin digs underneath to show why these different sorts of communication have different size effects.

Finally, Dr Larkin shows how to get more supervisor safety communication in your company.


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