What’s the Best Safety Award to Use?

While this is not necessarily the most important question to consider when you want to implement a safety incentive program, it is a significant one. 

When selecting safety awards make sure that they appeal to the vast majority of your people.  Your program will have a much better chance for success when you do  Too often, safety planners don't take this into account.  Some safety professionals honestly feel that any award will do. While is true that any award is better than nothing, and you will get some motivation to work safely just by having a program that measures performance against a set of goals, the motivation will not be sustained unless what you are going to reward them with is something meaningful to the participants

In your planning phase:

• Do you use the awards that your award company wants to sell you?  
• Do you give your employees the award that you want them to have?
• Or do you ask your employees what award they want?  

As family involvement is extremely important to the success of any safety incentive campaign, do you choose awards that appeal to them? Remember that company identifiable clothing (tee shirts, hats etc.) have relatively little meaning for the family.  

Within reason, you should use the award that your employees really want, the one they would choose for themselves.

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