Safety incentive programs

The safety and health function historically has been top-down driven and enforced through negative reinforcement or, in other terms, disciplinary action for noncompliance. Although negative reinforcement is often essential in order to ensure compliance, safety and health professionals should utilize positive reinforcement whenever possible. Although this author is not a proponent of safety and health incentive programs, safety and health professionals should seek methods within the safety and... 

Toft, Doug. How to Run a Successful Safety-Incentive Program. Safety and Health. January 1997, pp. 62-65. 

Contract documents should be reviewed. The HASP should reflect and possibly reference contractual agreements. Contract documents can contain much information pertinent to site safety. For example, many contracts contain monetary incentives for completion of site work accident free. If management wishes to share some of this monetary incentive with site workers, the HASP is an excellent vehicle for communicating safety incentive programs. 

Although the author is not a proponent of safety and loss prevention incentive programs until aU basic components of the program are in place and functioning properly, are there other motivational triggers that can be utilized to increase employee awareness Safety and loss prevention professionals may wish to consider the following ideas ... 

In lieu of the traditional safety and loss prevention incentive programs, some professionals have tested new and innovative methods of motivating their employees ... 

These types of safety and loss prevention incentive programs are new and different for most employees. Most employees with any type of longevity in the industrial workforce have participated in the traditional programs. Safety and loss prevention professionals are encouraged to talk with their employees to find out what motivates them. The employees will tell the safety and loss prevention professional their likes and dislikes, and the safety and loss prevention professional can design a creative program to trip their motivational trigger. 

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A serious mistake members of some organizations make is believing they can have two separate systems for evaluating production and safety. This occurs when no measurement for safety is built into the normal evaluation system and a safety incentive program is initiated to reward safe performance. The line manager is rewarded in terms of salary and position for having an exemplary production record. At... 

Identify the pitfalls inherent in safety incentive programs... 

A company with a terrible safety record started a safety bingo program. Every week a department did not report a recordable accident, members of the department could randomly select bingo stickers. Stickers were attached to a card submitted for prizes when a column, row, or dij onal was completed. Safety performance was excellent until the awareness program ended. Injuries increased and production decreased following the termination of the incentive program. 

Incentive programs are sometimes used in place of effective safety programs and positive safety cultures. Safety incentive programs are not magic. They may have a negative effect on safety efforts. 

Is there an award/incentive program tied to safety and health ... 

Safety professionals are frustrated when a well-intentioned, comprehensive safety management system is put into place, yet employees continue to be injured. Safety professionals generally recognize that incentive programs that address behaviors without also recognizing performance... 

Safety Incentive Program Claims Not Supported by Evidence, OSHA Official Says, BNAC Safety Communicator, Winter 1999. 

Would a safety incentive program cause you to work more safely ... 

Zero injury goals are enforced with safety training and accident/near-miss investigations coupled with a lucrative injury incentive program [3]. 

Worker participation in workplace safety and health concerns is not enconraged. Incentive programs are present which have the effect of disconraging reporting of incidents, injuries, potential hazards or symptoms. Employees/employee representatives are not involved in the safety and health program. 

The positive motivation of each and every employee to work and think safely and in a healthful manner on a daily basis has always been a priority for safety and health professionals. Throughout the decades, safety and health professionals have utilized a number of ideas and incentives through which to achieve this motivational level within their workforce. Due to the relative success of such efforts, commercially available incentive programs are now readily available in a variety of products and price ranges. However, safety and health professionals shonld be aware that incentive programs should not be utilized as a substitute for base-level compliance and behavior-based safety and health programs, and should be utilized for their intended purpose only. Many motivational and incentive-type programs are the ideas of safety and health professionals and are unique to the workforce within their operations. 

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