Enhancing Workplace Safety Across Generations

Workplace Safety Speaker Mike Hourigan
Ensuring workplace safety is a top priority for organizations across all industries. As businesses strive to create a safe and secure work environment for their employees, it is essential to consider the impact of generational differences on safety practices and attitudes. Mike Hourigan, a distinguished safety speaker, brings a unique perspective to the table by exploring how the characteristics and behaviors of different generations can influence safety outcomes in...
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When is 100-Percent the Same as 0-Percent?

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable”. ― Mark Twain In my professional role as a workplace safety speaker and workplace safety consultant and author, I am pleased beyond measure to speak in front of thousands of manufacturers, safety officers, executive leaders and, of course, those who run the machinery, work the production lines, load the trucks in warehouses and drive the big rigs. Though I earned my...
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Mike Hourigan, Motivational Workplace Change Speaker

Motivational Workplace Change Speaker
As a Motivational Change Management Speaker for the Workplace, I have been a witness to the sweeping transformations that have occurred in what used to be called “the office.” As I have noted in my keynote speeches on change and change management, the COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated the trend from the in-person to the virtual, but it was coming in any event. Office space rentals were spiraling out...
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Workplace Safety Keynote Speaker

Safety Speaker Mike Hourigan
“Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.” – Author unknown As a workplace safety keynote speaker who started his career in construction, steel mills and leather tanneries, I know that safety is stressful. Numerous studies, of course, have been done on the topic of stress and performance. From nurses to truck drivers, everyone knows that putting undue stress on employees causes accidents, but as...
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Mike Hourigan, Workplace Safety Keynote Speaker

Safety Speaker: When I was recently delivering a safety keynote speech in the capacity of a Workplace Safety Keynote Speaker, a VP of Manufacturing, and an old friend of mine asked: “Mike, remember all of those goofy safety posters? Where did they go?” As a workplace safety keynote speaker, I smiled and said: “Everyone’s going digital now.” It’s true, the “face” of workplace safety is changing. Instead of safety...
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Mike Hourigan, best Safety Keynote Speaker

Is Your Circle of Safety too Small? As a workplace safety keynote speaker, I often share with my audiences that I did not “come up” in industry in the typical manner. I like to speak on safety because I worked in steel mills, construction and manufacturing. In fact, not long ago, I was introduced to a manufacturing group by the CEO who called me “the working guy’s best friend.”...
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Mike Hourigan, best Workplace Safety Keynote Speaker

Recently, as I was presenting workplace safety to an organization in my capacity as a Workplace Safety Speaker, a comment was submitted to me by the COO that I wanted to share with you. “Mike, I really want you to hammer these guys in your Safety in the Workplace talk. Last year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a few of our guys decided to have an unauthorized party in the...
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Mike Hourigan, Workplace Safety Motivational Speaker

As a workplace safety motivational speaker, I can’t tell you how many factories and worksites I’ve visited, where some 20-year-old is sitting there, smiling at me as I stress the seriousness of safety. Speaking on workplace safety is often a thankless job. The people who really need to hear the safety message need a lot of convincing because they can’t imagine the consequences. Workplace Safety is Forever I was...
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