For Theo Venter it was Just Another Day. Like any other day. Yet removing his insulated gloves while working on a damaged high voltage transmission pole would impact himself and his family in ways he could never have imagined.
We all make mistakes. It’s what makes us human. But imagine you had to wake up everyday living the same ill-fated mistake for the rest of your life. No one knows this feeling more than Theo Venter.
Surviving the agony of a 20,000 volt electric shock is one thing. Discovering that current workplace safety practices will NOT prevent others from making the same mistake is worse.
It’s time to lift the lid on the real causes of workplace incidents and accidents. Time to stop pleading with your workforce to be safe, or relying on rules and regulations. Time to find more meaning and satisfaction in our work tasks. Finally—it’s time to Get Real —if you want your people to be truly safe… personally responsible for safety. Not just lip service!
A Wake-Up Call To Industry
Theo Venter is the only man known to receive a 22,000 volt electric shock through the heart and live to tell the tale. Get Real is a hard-hitting look at Theo’s accident, why it happened, and how it relates to all accidents in the workplace. As the title implies, Get Real is a wake up call to industry. It’s time we stopped kidding ourselves that workplace safety programs prevent accidents. People do. Theo and Ken Roberts team up to challenge commonly held workplace assumptions, using Theo’s horrific workplace accident as a catalyst for change.
This book offers refreshingly straight talk about why companies experience workplace accidents. Laying down Theo’s tragic story piece by piece—warts and all. People need to hear the truth. Even if it flies in the face of our current model of understanding. You won’t be asked to put your feet up and relax, but strap yourself in and hang on. You are in for quite a ride. Prepare yourself for some big Aha! moments like Ken and Theo received writing Get Real. They firmly believe it is time to speak up and disclose the secret underlying reasons ‘why’ people have incidents and accidents in the workplace.
If you are a Manager or Leader, or part of a work crew, discover ‘how’ your current safety paradigm struggles to have an impact on reducing injuries. In fact, it may even be perpetuating your problems. Order Get Real now and discover the greatest weapon you have against accidents. You’re people are not the problem… they’re the SOLUTION!
With over sixty years combined heavy industrial experience, Ken and Theo partner up as a formidable team. Ken’s forty years in mining and construction are coupled with twenty years as a life coach and personal development facilitator.
Theo completed seventeen years as a power transmission ‘liney’ before his tragic accident. He has spent the past fifteen years travelling the world as a motivational speaker and safety professional. He has spoken to over 180,000 people across 9 countries.
Ken and Theo reveal one of the most compelling arguments to emerge from the industrial workplace health and safety scene in decades.