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Still Rewarding for Injury Rates???

February 28, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Wouldn’t it be nice if we developed a reward system for our children and it worked giving the results we wanted? Wouldn’t it be great if we could get our teenagers and young people to respond to the rewards and incentives we provide so they might keep themselves out of harm, take less risks and keep … [Read more...] about Still Rewarding for Injury Rates???

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Incentives, Safety Training Tagged With: injury statistics, reward systems

It’s not in the KPI or LTI but the MRI

September 16, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 12 Comments

It’s not in the KPI or LTI but the MRI The assumption of behaviourist psychology that people are the sum of inputs and outputs is the greatest weakness of BBS philosophy. There is plenty of evidence to show that people don’t respond to stimulus either in self interest or in ways that make … [Read more...] about It’s not in the KPI or LTI but the MRI

Filed Under: Positive Safety Stuff, Robert Long, Safety Incentives, Safety Statistics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: BBS, KPI, lti, MRI

How to Make Safety Incentive Schemes Successful

April 12, 2015 by Admin 9 Comments

How to Make Safety Incentive Schemes Successful Since seeing the by-products of poorly designed and implemented safety incentive schemes I have never been a big fan of them, particularly those that reward for not getting injured (or not reporting those injuries). Although they once supported and … [Read more...] about How to Make Safety Incentive Schemes Successful

Filed Under: Risk Homeostasis, Safety Incentives Tagged With: risk homeostasis, Safety Incentives

Discouraging Workers from Reporting Injuries

January 15, 2015 by Phil LaDuke 4 Comments

Discouraging Workers from Reporting Injuries Is Bad Business One of the negative outcomes of a dogmatic Zero Harm approach is the reluctance, at all levels in the organisation, to report injuries. See ZERO HARM DEBATE Bill Sims, in his article: Injury Hiding – How do you stop it, answers the … [Read more...] about Discouraging Workers from Reporting Injuries

Filed Under: Phil LaDuke, Safety Incentives, Safety Statistics Tagged With: injury reporting, Zero Harm

Creative Safety – How can I become more creative?

November 9, 2014 by Mark Taylor 4 Comments

Creative Safety - How can I become more creative? A common element of any safety system is to list and analyze hazards as part of a risk assessment process. But, when asked to think outside the square and come up with new actions to solve a problem, our brains go blank, get stuck in a rut and … [Read more...] about Creative Safety – How can I become more creative?

Filed Under: Creativity, Positive Safety Stuff, Safety Incentives, Technology Tagged With: brainstorming, creative safety ideas, innovation, Safety

Disruptive Safety

September 29, 2014 by Admin 3 Comments

Disruptive Safety Very interesting article and points raised by Kelvin Genn  on the Safety Differently Blog READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE  Some Extracts:   Recently I was studying Google’s management philosophy where I was struck by one of their principles: “make mistakes well”. … [Read more...] about Disruptive Safety

Filed Under: Safety Incentives, Safety Leadership, Zero Harm Tagged With: disruptive safety, mistakes, productivity

Safety Behaviour a Matter of Motivation

August 2, 2014 by Admin Leave a Comment

Safety Behaviour a Matter of Motivation by Don Andrechek The word that arises when dealing with the change of a worker’s behavior is “HOW”? How can I get motivational success? How can we influence desired behaviors through motivational factors? How can I motivate people? The answer to the … [Read more...] about Safety Behaviour a Matter of Motivation

Filed Under: Safe Behaviours, Safety Incentives Tagged With: communication, motivation, reward, safety behviour

Lets Try Sense Based Safety

June 24, 2014 by Phil LaDuke 6 Comments

  Lets Try Sense Based Safety By Phil La Duke on his blog – READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE Phil shares our same concerns over the proliferation of silver bullet, snake oil and the “next big thing” salesmen and reminds us of the 10 absolute truths about safety – GOLD! Extract: I belong to … [Read more...] about Lets Try Sense Based Safety

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Phil LaDuke, Safety Incentives, Safety Leadership Tagged With: BBS, common sense, sense, silver bullet, snake oili

Our Obsession with Forbidden Pleasures–Applying it to Safety

May 26, 2014 by Admin 8 Comments

Our Obsession with Forbidden Pleasures–Applying it to Safety Just thinking aloud here and would really like some input from others to develop this idea a little more and I would love to here from Dr Rob on the psychology of this and how to practically apply it at work. UPDATE: see Dr Robs Response … [Read more...] about Our Obsession with Forbidden Pleasures–Applying it to Safety

Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Safety Incentives Tagged With: forbidden pleasures, reverse psychology, Safety, safety communication, safety culture

Employee Engagement: Chocolate, Vanilla, or Strawberry?

May 4, 2014 by Bill Sims 3 Comments

Employee Engagement: Chocolate, Vanilla, or Strawberry? Guest article by Bill Sims, Jnr. You will find his articles quirky, refreshing, thought provoking and just plain fun to read. Who would write a book called “Green Beans & Ice Cream - The Definitive Recipe for Employee Engagement, … [Read more...] about Employee Engagement: Chocolate, Vanilla, or Strawberry?

Filed Under: Lead and Lag Indicators, Safety Incentives, Semiotics Tagged With: cultural problems, lagging indicators, positive reinforcement, safety culture, safety cultures, Safety Incentives, unsafe behaviors

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