SafeStart is committed to changing the way people think about safety and incorporate safe thinking into everyday life. To honor that, SafeStart is sponsoring the BLR Safety Summit in Austin, TX for the second year in a row. The Safety Summit provides re-certification, preconference workshops and training strategies to reduce injuries, avoid violations and save companies money.

Tim Page-Bottorff will be the opening speaker on day one (April 4) at the Safety Summit. There are several stages companies eventually progress through on their journey to zero injuries. A focus on compliance alone is not enough to prevent all injuries and build a safety culture, they need to move well beyond OSHA compliance into a self-compliant culture of safety. Tim’s session Leapfrogging from Compliance to Culture will:

• establish the singular strategies that will leapfrog multiple challenges
• connect the dots between safety components and the organization
• identify the common pitfalls in safety improvement

Tim has over 20 years of occupational health and safety experience and the unique ability to immediately engage his audience through personal stories and well-placed humor when speaking at health & safety conferences, association and corporate health and safety meetings.

Tim has also shown his expertise through published articles and webinars. In his article Humor in Safety (and his webinar with the same title), Tim addresses that by adding a bit of humor to safety training not only makes teaching the classes more enjoyable but that the students will better retain the teaching points. In his article All Hands on Deck Tim also speaks about getting better retention through multiple training methods, discusses the challenges of hands-on training and the disconnect between safety training opinions and practice. Tim published another article about forming, changing and reinforcing key safety behaviors called The Habit of Safety, as well as being the resident safety expert for Safety + Health magazine to answer questions about Incident Investigation and Reporting.

The 4th Annual BLR Safety Summit will be held from April 3-5 and showcase safety experts, like Tim, providing exclusive Q&A, development and networking opportunities. The summit boasts the latest OSHA enforcement initiatives & trends. If you’re attending, make sure you catch Tim’s session—he’ll inspire conversations that will occur well after his session is over.