Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Duration of Safety Award Programs and Frequency of Awards




How long should you run a safety award program? 




How frequently should you issue safety awards? 



What kind of safety award should you use?

Whenever a safety professional is considering using awards to stimulate safe work performance these questions invariably come up.  The reason is they are preconditioned to think of “buying” a safety incentive like they would “buy” a training solution.  If you ask anyone selling incentive awards they will come up with a variety of formulas and designs and timelines, some of which may even be based on earning awards for behavior improvement.  Incentive companies are preconditioned to sell you a solution that has finite time parameters.

Our answer to these questions is based on your current need.  As long as you are experiencing workplace behaviors that result in accidents, you should have an award mechanism in place that motivates the workers to change those behaviors.  Research has shown conclusively that:

A small, positive, immediate consequence has more impact on behavior than a large, future and uncertain one. And by consistently and continuously reinforcing behavior change with small amounts of awards, you will change behavior

The answers to these important questions can mean the difference between a safety award system that changes behavior to create lasting habits and one that doesn’t provide you anything other than good will when you hand out year end awards to those who were just lucky enough not to get into a accident.

For more information on AwardSafety products or services or other white papers please contact us at awardsafetyinfo@cox.net



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