Who We Are ...

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 cogency 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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