Posted By R Hindle where are you based? and some speakers charge a lot for the service you know. Ron

Posted By Ali It is often possible, in my experience, to get some support from the local Environmental Health dept. of your Council. They usually have H&S enforcement officers who are skilled in accident investigations and can give their time for free - I know as I used to be one !

Posted By Robert K Lewis Descarte You of all should know that it is Scunthonian. My wife is the Scunthonian yellowbelly however!!! Bob

Posted By Bob Thompson CMIOSH Hi Nicholas I have been involved in many accidents but the most significant life changing event was contracting stage 5 vwf and whole body vibration syndrome. It has had major implications on my quality of life. I would be pleased to talk to any groups about this (with negotiation)I have quite an effective spiel Regards Bob

Posted By lewes I have no experience of anyone but this person kindly allowed me to use his photo's for in-house use. Have a look at: www.accident-awareness.co.uk

Posted By Nicholas Morris Bit of digging around: Ian Whittingham seems to be construction site safety- I'm looking for something relevant to food industry manufacture. Remember Charlie video or speaker himself could be a possibility- anyone have any details? Any other suggestions? Also, the earlier thread had a message from a "Frank": are you out there?

Posted By lewes Frank occasionally posts on here from what ive seen. I think his contact details are on his website (www.accident-awareness.co.uk)and when I last communicated with him I think he was in the process of doing presentations full-time or about to. Like I say I dont actually know the guy or anything about his presentations just that he let me use his photo's.

Posted By Nicholas Morris Ken Woodward sounds promising: can anyone email me his contact details please?

Posted By Tony Carr Hi Nicholas You asked has anyone used someone of this nature, I can confirm that I have used Frank Carrano. I see that Frank has e-mailed you direct, so I am assuming by now you have touched base with him, if not I just want to assure you that after he came and did several presentations to my workforce, it definitely was hard hitting and impacted on my staff. You want shock value well he will give it to you along with some nasty slides of his injuries. He goes into detail as to how it has affected his life and family members. His presentation is indeed very affective, it beats anything I have seen other than the Ken Woodward Video. My recommendations to you are simple, either get Ken or Frank in person, it is so much more hard hitting when they are right in front of you. Keep up the good work Ken/Frank its people like you who have suffered so much, change peoples attitudes and behavior and make our world just that little bit safer. Tony

Posted By Frank Hi Christian You have mail Regards Frank

Posted By Chris Thornton Hi my name is Chris Thornton and in 2004 I was involved in an explosion at work losing most of my right leg. I am still having operations but have since retrained myself in health and safety passing the IOSH, NEBOSH General and the PDipSHEM. When I'm fit for work I would consider doing presentations on my accident and combine my health and safety knowledge, I have spoken to Frank and he as given me good feed back. If Ian, Ken or anyone who believes they can help me when I am ready to get started I would be very grateful. Regards Chris CHThornton@BTInternet.com

Posted By Paul Hi my name is Paul Burns of CB Safety Service Ltd, I have being involved in an industrial accident and currently present seminars on prevention of accidents by showing the consequences of not following H&S proceedures. I have valuable experience which may be of some use to you and am willing to travel to all parts of the UK to get my message across. Some of the clients that I have worked for are on my website at www.cbsafetyserviceltd.co.uk If you are interested in a hard hitting safety presentation don't hesitate to call me on 01229 826620. Regards Paul Burns Behavioural Safety Consultant

Posted By Chris Thornton You have a valid point Merv, people may shut bad thoughts away and resort back to bad practise, but that could be said for any presentation, accident victim or fire officer and as we all know H&S is only part effective if senior management do not embrace it I still believe however that a worker from the same background as the audience, showing scars or disability and explaining how their lives have changed both physically and mentally, their relationships, their sex lives, their social lives, the list goes on. A fire officer speaks of horrific injuries he has witnessed, with all due respect to the fire officer I know which presentation I would choose. Sorry for been on the defensive a bit Merv, but I laid in mud looking at two bones, blood and flesh where my right knee once was, in pain like no other waiting for an ambulance for what seemed to take an eternity. A policeman found my leg some hours later 41 metres from were I was. I'm sure that policeman as nightmares and may have a story to tell and I hope he is fine. After reading just a snippet of what happened to me Merv do you still believe the ambulance driver or the policeman would deliver a better presentation on the accident than myself Sorry for going on a bit Chris.

Posted By Frank Hi Merv People like myself and Chris who are prepared to tell our story no matter how gory it is do help in the short term and long-term. I tell my story as it is. I don’t pull any punches I talk very graphical about it, I minimise the amount of gory pics without trying to traumatise anyone and it works and to be honest its not so much the fact that you have been injured but more so the fact that what you cant do after your accident. I would love to be able to go ski-ing with my kids again, play Ice hockey and have a healthy sex life but I cant. By telling our stories and bringing to people’s attention the consequences of having an accident on how it could affect their daily life does hit home I can assure you. When I get e-mails from people after they have heard my story, that they owe it to their wife and kids to take safety seriously that tells me its had the right impact. My CEO viewed my presentation and it had such a profound affect on him that he asked me to take it on the road to all our sites. My companies LTA frequency was easily 1 a month, after my accident they didn’t suffer another LTA for 308 days this was based on me having a serious accident and sharing my story with the entire workforce. Also off the back of my accident they introduced a behavioural safety campaign so now it is proactive and safety is in the spotlight more and never on the back burner. People like me a Chris cant stop accidents, no one can but we can sure as hell try our every best to let people know what the rest of their lives will be like when they have become disabled. Sorry Merv but from experience, such talks/presentations/discussions do have a long-term effect. Regards Frank

Posted By Frank Hi Merv Sorry in my haste yesterday to get my views on this thread I said it was 308 days before our next LTA. I must be numerically dyslexic as it was in fact 803 days. Backed up with flyers of my x ray showing the 12” Titanium plate now screwed to my hip which doesn’t shock people but to just remind them what happened to me, we have significantly reduced the amount of accidents that we were having. So it does go to show that in the long term people like myself who have suffered an accident can help. Regards Frank

Posted By Frank Hi April You have mail Frank

Posted By Chris Ivan Hi, due a cancellation, I am now looking for aother safety speaker for a commercial/paying event in Sussex in late November. Fee payable. Please email for further details. Cautionary or inspirational tale preferred over techical speaker - Thanks!