I can remember when I was 9 or 10 years old I went to school one day and one of my mates came into the classroom saying ‘I’m famous, I’m famous….’ it turns out that he was in the street of a small country town and a TV crew stopped him and his dad to ask them about the closure of the local abattoir and how it would affect them.
He kept telling us that he was going to be on
the local news and he was ‘Famous’.
If that’s the case then Vanessa, Annie and I are ‘Famous’ now as we recently appeared on an SBS TV show called Small Business Secrets.
If you didn’t get the chance to see it have a look below and see who we are and a little bit about the business side of CNBSafe Safety Speakers.
Oh and next time you see me remember that I’m Famous.
Have you ever worked somewhere where the same name keeps popping up over and over again.
I recently met someone who I have been hearing about for over 20 years.
I was asked to share my story at a safety summit for the UGL business group. One of the other speakers was Professor Patrick Hudson. Now I’ve been sharing my message for years and often I hear a company say that they are building their safety systems based around the ‘Hudson models’ or they are implementing ‘Hudsons Culture Ladder’.
Many times when we meet someone we are slightly disappointed with them in real life, but I’m happy to report that Professor Hudson was as dynamic in person as his systems and studies I’ve heard about over the years.
We had a
great couple of chats and he complimented me on my story and how I tell it. I was quite chuffed, lovely to meet you Prof Hudson.
I’m like a broken record with this one but I had another issue with a hotel this month. Firstly there was no place to park the car and get in to check in. The driveway was on a fairly steep driveway and pretty awkward to get my chair out on. To the hotel’s credit they came out and gave me my room key to save me getting my wheelchair out of the car.
But then they advised me that the hotel carpark was down a long steep driveway and they can send a shuttle buggy down to pick me
up?
Ok so I’m in a wheelchair and I don’t expect everything to be accessible, but seriously? A buggy to pick me up.
So I parked the hire car out on the road and made my way to the room. I was there for a while and went into the bathroom and noticed that the towels were on a rack on the wall out of my reach.
I could have easily called reception to come and get them for me.
But that’s not the point. I want to be able to park my car and go into reception like everyone else, and I want to be able to reach the Effin towels when I need one!
Anyway we got together last weekend in Melbourne. Smithy was in London with the Paralympic team and Anton was running somewhere so they were notable absentees. But the rest of our team got together for lunch at a fancy restaurant.
The food was delicious but the conversations were even better.
Great to catch up with everyone and we will do it again.
Get in Early in 2020
Last year we had a few people call us at the last minute
to arrange for a Safety Speaker to visit their workplace.
If you have any plans for a safety speaker this year please get in touch NOW rather than leaving it to the last minute and possibly missing out.
We now have a new page on our website where you can download any images for your use to promote a Safety Speaker visit to your business or workplace.
This is where you will find high resolution corporate and not so corporate images of all our Safety Speakers.
There are Posters for each Speaker that you
can print, add date, session times and location to post around your work site. Or even use these images to create your own flyers & posters with your branding.
Make sure you contact us if there is something specific that you would like.
These are the locations we will be in during the next couple of months. If you would like someone to visit your workplace please get in touch and we will see if we can do it while we are there. It will save you some travel costs….
I sent a message to the other Safety Speakers late last year and asked them to give me a statement or a sentence about what they enjoy about sharing their stories.
