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A Blog written by experts in the award industry. In AwardSafety we will explore a variety of topics surrounding the often misunderstood use of incentive awards as a tool to reduce incidents of injuries and accidents. It includes input and opinions from many safety experts and analysis of hundreds of safety award programs implemented over the years and across all industries. We encourage you to offer your voice to this subject by using the comments following each post.
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Shifting to a Positive Safety Program
What’s more effective in changing safety
behavior? Is it waiting until the end of
the month or quarter to let your employees know that they missed their safety
objective by 10%? Is it showing them
what they did wrong and how much it costs the company after they’ve had an
accident? Or, is it observing a positive
safety behavior on the job and thanking them for that safe performance?
By and large, the entire discussion of being safe
is negative. To discuss being safe means
you have to discuss the consequences of not being safe. The dictionary defines safety as “the condition of being protected from or unlikely to
cause danger, risk, or injury.” Safety is generally interpreted as implying a real and
significant impact on risk of death, injury or damage to property.
When
you shift your focus on the direction you want to move, the positive outcomes,
you will create a more positive safety culture, higher morale and improved
workplace productivity. When
you focus on what you want to achieve and give clear and concise tools on how
to achieve them, you are well on your way to a positive environment.
When you recognize safety performance on a
continuous and consistent basis, you will form positive safety habits. Make sure your employees go home at the end
of the day knowing they made a difference, knowing they had been listened to,
knowing their efforts had been appreciated.
When you refocus your attentions on positive
change, you will concentrate on your own leading indicators to safety. You will not be comparing yourself to other
industry or national standards, you will be comparing yourself to your own
results, you aren’t average, so don’t
make average your goal. When you compare yourself to your own results and improving daily to make a positive difference, you will have positive results.
make average your goal. When you compare yourself to your own results and improving daily to make a positive difference, you will have positive results.
Sometimes the safety industry gets a little too
analytical. Developing safety competence
takes time and that’s the advantage of working with your employees on a daily
basis. It means being in the workers environments,
understanding their daily challenges, and offering new ways to act or think
about them from a positive perspective
After all, life is really simple; we create the
circumstances that complicate it.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Holiday Shopping and Safety Incentives
What does holiday shopping have to do with safety incentives? It is the best time of the year to prove to any safety professional contemplating a safety incentive program that giving your employees a choice of any award they want it is a key to the success of your program.
This holiday season sales are expected to be in excess of
$655 billion. Online Black Friday sales
alone exceeded $3 billion! So what did
they buy and where did they buy it? You name it, anywhere and everywhere. Certainly the national bricks and mortar retailers
and their websites got the lion share of the sales, but many regional retailers
had millions in sales as well. In
addition the online-only companies achieved huge sales as well, the foremost
being Amazon.
Our point, when you plan an incentive program, it is
virtually impossible to pick the handful of retailers or merchandise items that
will appeal to your entire workforce, so why try.
Almost all incentive
studies have shown that gift cards are the most popular and effective options
within the safety incentive category. Over 80% of respondents to Incentive
Magazine’s “Gift Card IQ” survey are currently using gift cards in their reward
programs.
Some gift card suppliers
would like YOU to choose which gift cards to offer in your incentive programs
and will recommend what gift card brands would be most effective based on the
unique composition of your employee base. That may be one way to do it, we
however think you should give that option to your employees and let them choose
the one they want.
As mentioned, it is
virtually impossible to pick the handful of card brands that will appeal to all
your employees. Use a gift card system
that will allow them to choose from a much larger list of brands that comprises
over 95% of all retail sales. Then you
will have an incentive with far greater motivational appeal.
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or other white papers please contact us at awardsafetyinfo@cox.net
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Will Safety Training Change Behaviors?
Yes, but only
for the short term. In terms of behavior
based safety, training is an antecedent...or an event that comes before a
behavior and sets the stage for the performance to be done well. While training is essential in building any
effective safety culture, it will not alone change someone into performing safely
on an ongoing basis.
To make
safety training as effective as it can be you need to add the other integral
pieces of the behavioral model. You must
measure the performance letting your employee know what and how they are doing,
give them their feedback and then provide them with a positive consequence when
appropriate.
In essence
with training you are educating why, then showing a person how and what or what
not to do. Antecedents alone result in
temporary behavior change at best.
Consequences must be used to if permanent behavior change is desired.
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here.
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information on AwardSafety products or services please contact us at
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