Award Safety

The following ideas on praising and recognizing employees were stolen shamelessly from this post on CBS Money Watch written by Jeff Haden.  Jeff has ghost written many non-fiction books for some of the smartest CEOs in business and we believe has a prescient understanding of employee engagement and recognition.  You can view his works at …

We are often asked by prospective customers why we feel that gift cards make the best employee safety awards.  The simple reasons are that they provide the best value and choice than any other merchandise award, mainly because with gift cards you can get just about any kind of merchandise available in the incentive industry, …

This post on EHS Today is almost a year old, but it is well worth reading for any safety professional that is considering a safety incentive or award system.  Having been in the safety award industry for many years we can attest to the fact the first sentence in this article by Terry Mathis, an …

Recently we followed a discussion on LinkedIn about how to motivate employees to report near accidents within the workplace.  The discussion was in EHSQ, the #1 safety group on LinkedIn and several safety professionals voiced their opinions.  What we found interesting, was that the majority of those responding felt that some kind of recognition or …

There is some interesting data that has come out of the 2011 gift card survey of subscribers to Incentive magazine.  For years the safety industry has used safety incentives that have used traditional merchandise awards as the basis for the program.  Gift cards have proven to be a lot more competitive award with much better …