Award Safety

Having consulted on safety incentives with a multitude of companies in many different industries we have experienced many reasons why safety incentive programs fail.  Following are some of main reasons. ·         Poorly designed goals not relating to behavior, and basing the award on lagging vs leading indicators  ·         Using “incentive” structures that award on the …

Three out of four safety professionals believe that a behavior based safety system does provide results.  Specifically this question was asked in a weekly poll by Business & Legal Reports with the following results:  Ø 74% replied Yes Ø 26% replied No  We have seen a great many articles written about behavior based safety, the …

Accident investigation is an obvious method used by companies to prevent future like type accidents.  The steps that companies take in making these investigations are many and varied.  We’ve all seen them or other lists like them and they are all effective ways to prevent accidents.   However one of the easiest ways for companies to …

If you have used safety incentive award programs, are using safety incentive award programs, or are planning to use a safety incentive award programs, this post by Paul Hebert of i2i is a must read.  It has to do with setting proper program goals. In our opinion, the single biggest problem in safety incentive programs …

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 …