Intentions don't create safety, actions do.
Jorge L. Torres turns safety from a slide deck into a story your crew actually remembers — on the frontline, in the boardroom, and in two languages.
The Reel
A clip from ‘Coaching & Mentoring Your Way to Safety’ — a taste of what it’s like in the room.
On stage, in the room
From conference keynotes to crew-level toolbox talks — meeting people where they are.
Talks that land
Starting points — every keynote is tailored to your crew, your risks, and your room.
Are You OK? 5 Honest Lessons from a Recovering Stress Junkie
The safety pro spends all day protecting everyone else's wellbeing — and ignores their own. Drawing on his years as a paramedic and EHS professional, Jorge gets honest about stress, burnout, and what mental self-care really takes.
- Recognize how mental health shifts day to day — and why that's normal
- Spot the stressors and triggers specific to the safety profession
- Use simple self-monitoring techniques before burnout hits
- Know when it's time to seek help — and where to find it
Mentor & Coach Your Way to Safety
A safety pro can't be everywhere at once. Real culture happens when the whole workforce, leadership, and management get involved. Jorge shares the soft skills — coaching, mentoring, and leading — that turn coworkers into safety partners.
- Tell coaching, mentoring, and leadership apart — and when to use each
- Recognize the traits that make each one effective in safety
- Apply simple strategies to engage the people around them
BBS: How Organizational Behavior Impacts Safety Culture
Behavior-Based Safety usually points the finger at workers — and overlooks how leadership's own behavior shapes the culture. Built for executives, managers, and supervisors, this talk tackles Value Enforcement and Organizational Drift head-on.
- Spot the worker and organizational behaviors that shape safety culture
- Understand Value Enforcement and its impact on the organization
- Recognize Organizational Drift before it erodes the culture
- Respond to both with a practical, proven approach
Why Good People Make Bad Decisions
Most incidents get blamed on individual carelessness — but the real answer is almost always systemic. Jorge unpacks the four conditions that turn safe intentions into bad outcomes, and shifts the question from 'who made the mistake' to 'what allowed it to happen.'
- See why systemic conditions — not carelessness — drive most incidents
- Spot the four conditions: known risk, silence, pressure, and assumptions
- Move investigations from blame-based ('who') to system-based ('what')
- Use the See It, Say It, Act framework to respond to hazards in the moment
- Close the gap between written policy and real floor-level practice
Two languages.
One mission: everyone home.
Jorge L. Torres, CSP, CHST, is a board-certified safety professional, EHS consultant, and author who has spent his career between the boardroom and the frontline — translating not just words, but risk, culture, and trust.
“Safety isn't a poster on the wall. It's a decision someone makes when no one is watching.”
Through The Bilingual Safety Guy, he brings that work to the stage: keynotes that make safety personal for the people most likely to get hurt — and most often left out of the conversation.
Unburdened
5 Honest Lessons from a Recovering Stress Junkie. Foreword by Cdr. Guy R. Delahoussaye, USN (Ret.).
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Catch Jorge's interviews and podcast conversations on the human side of safety and resilience.
Jorge Torres Interview — Safety Consultant US
The Jay Allen Show
Diary of a Bald Man
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