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Nova Vita Accident Control's behavior-based safety training has been
helping
companies and organizations since 1980 as an ancilliary arm, creating
safer
work environments by changing workers' attitudes.
We have personally experienced the loss of time, money,
and morale due to accidents and injuries. It is
our desire to help others create a healthier, happier, and safer
environment
for workers, supervisors, and their employers.
In organizations that have diligently employed Nova Vita's
principles
in accident control, there has been a reduction in injuries in comparison with the previous year by over fifty percent. According to researchers
who have studied over 70 years worth of insurance actuaries in the
United
States, approximately 88% of accidents are avoidable.
Giselle Nova brings a wealth
of
experience to Nova Vita Accident Control Training. With over
twenty
years as an educator, she has been instrumental in the development and
continuing refinement of Nova Vita's program curricula. Her
encounters in U.S. Forest Service fire activities, as a ski instructor,
Emergency Medical Technician, advisor to the Siskiyou County
Sheriffs'
Explorer Search and Rescue Program, and Joint Coordinator of the Fire Safe
Council of Siskiyou County, combine well with years as a human
resources
director, and as a businesswoman in American enterprise. Giselle
is well qualified to share her first-hand knowledge regarding safety
management
and the fine art of motivating people to higher levels of success.
Lead trainer Dale Nova
will
fascinate participants with his cogence and challenge all to look
deeper within themselves for positive answers in preventing
accidents.
Nova began his career as a 17-year-old wildland firefighter, surviving
his first season after a near-fatal burn-over situation with his
fire team during a 'blow-up' fighting a California forest fire.
By
23, Nova was a timber falling contractor for Louisiana Pacific
Corporation
on their Big Lagoon Woods Operation, one of the last bastions for
huge old-growth redwood logging, where it wasn't uncommon for good men
to die making small mistakes. Additionally, over the last 40
years,
he has owned and managed three successful tree service
operations.
Before 28 years found him, Nova was searching for better answers and
teaching
environmental biology at Stanislaus State University. At age 30
he
was planning timber sales for the U.S. Forest Service and was a safety
training officer on two ranger districts. It was shortly
afterwards
that Dale Nova envisioned an accident control training program that
could
be available to every type of work force in the nation, large or small,
and at every organizational level. From the time Nova
Vita Accident Control held it's first seminar, organizations quickly
realized
its value as accidents lessened, profits increased ... and morale
improved.
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