Simple and Concurrent Safety Awards

The easiest option for creating a simple safety award program is to identify the criteria and a potential award or recognition event or perhaps a menu of awards and recognition events appropriate to the criteria. The idea is to strive for planned, yet spontaneous recognition. It is planned in that you know what pinpointed behavior or accomplishment you plan to reward, but it is spontaneous in that you do not know when the criteria will be met. These award programs resemble traditional safety awards except that employees earn the awards based on specific actions that promote safety, not by going a fixed period of time without an incident. 

Typically, the design team creates a simple award program and suggests several possible criteria and potential awards, then allows the steering committee to modify the plans to best support the behavioral process once employees begin doing observations. 

In addition, your design team may choose to encourage the steering committee to start with a simple award process and add additional concurrent awards later. 

Other elements Employees may earn recognition for activities and Not announced in advance 

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