Companies Discover Comedy Is Fun Safety Tool.Lifestyle Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000 Companies throughout California are finding the message of safety can be more effectively relayed to their employees through the use of comedy. One of the most successful speakers today on the corporate safety circuit is stand-up stand·up or stand-up adj. 1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar. 2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar. comic Steve Verret, who travels throughout California telling jokes and imparting safety messages to audiences made up of employees. Verret runs "Fun Corporate Safety Seminars," based in Carlsbad, California Carlsbad is a coastal resort-town in northern San Diego County, California. According to the state Department of Finance, the city had a total population of 90,271 in 2003. . Kellie Garret, a recent attendee at a seminar given by Verret proclaimed, "This is the most fun I have had in a long time. I can't believe a safety speaker could actually be funny!" Although Verret customizes his speeches to each particular crowd, his specialty is defensive driving and using common sense in safety. He peppers his message with clean Cajun humor relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc his roots in New Iberia, Louisiana The city of New Iberia (French: La Nouvelle-Ibérie) is the parish seat of Iberia Parish, in the US state of Louisiana, 125 miles (201 km) west of New Orleans. [1] [2] . Verret has appeared on television several times, including "Evening at the Improv" and a PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, feature about people with unusual occupations. Verret has a very successful defensive driving video, and has been featured in such publications as "People" magazine and the "L.A. Times". His stand-up career began at the world-famous Improv Comedy Club in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . His traffic safety seminars account for him having taught over 80,000 people the rules of the road, consequences of driving under the influence and not wearing a safety belt. His common sense approach to safety revolves around the fact that although companies spend millions of dollars training their employees in safety awareness, it is still common sense that solves most safety problems. His efforts seem to pay off for the audiences he tries to reach. As James Patchen, Safety Manager for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) , (NYSE: PCG), is the utility that provides natural gas and electricity to most of Northern California. recently wrote, "It was unanimous by all that it was the best safety meeting that anyone has ever attended at our company." SOURCE: DigitalWork ( http://www.digitalwork.com ) DigitalWork.com -- Your Business Workshop |
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