Over the
years there have been at least two schools of thought voiced to us by safety
professional on the subject question:
- We pay our people to function in a safe manner and get the results the company wants. They are already paid to work safe.
- Tangibly appreciating and
recognizing individual behaviors that improve specific safety performance
and outcomes have a measurable and dramatic impact on the overall safety
and financial performance of a company.
We have never
seen empirical research stating accurately that safety incentives produce
results. Frankly we don’t feel that you ever will. Simply because as we have stated many times,
that you can’t incentivize safety. That
would be the same as asking if employee rewards really produces a positive
change in employee engagement. You can’t
incentivize that either, because there are way too many pieces to either of
those puzzles and they all have to be working in tandem to be effective
We do know
that you can change poor safety behavior and replace it with positive safety
behavior by using rewards as positive consequences for making the change. We do know that the reward industry in a wide
ranging research project showed…
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
Stop
looking at safety incentives to achieve the lagging safety goals traditionally
used for safety incentive programs and substitute it with a a safety award
system to recognize continuous safety improvement
For more
information on AwardSafety products or services or other white papers please
contact us at awardsafetyinfo@cox.net
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