Safety Incentive Programs – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly A little collection of the best web articles to help you decide which safety incentives work the best - or at least help you avoid having to do any real work for a while Battery Cables (one of my favourites) Busy managers … [Read more...] about Effective Safety Incentive Programs
Safety Incentives
Whats Wrong with Safety Incentive Schemes
Safety Incentive Schemes For the 20 years I was in the mining industry we had a variety of safety incentives. There were stubby coolers, belt buckles, caps, jackets, sports bags and so on. Awards were given for various periods without a lost time accident, often a more valuable prize was given for … [Read more...] about Whats Wrong with Safety Incentive Schemes
Injury Hiding-How do you stop it?
Injury Hiding-How do you stop it? By Bill Sims Jr. - See the rest of Bill’s Articles Here "I've inherited a safety incentive program that rewards people for lagging indicators and I'm worried there maybe injury hiding. How can I shift it to become behavior based?" All too often, safety … [Read more...] about Injury Hiding-How do you stop it?
Practical Guidance for OHS Professionals
Practical Guidance for OHS Professionals Because of the positive feedback from his Safety Reflections over the last few years, just before he passed away suddenly, George Robotham incorporated all of his work into this 60 page collection of essential reading for every Safety Professional, new or … [Read more...] about Practical Guidance for OHS Professionals
Safety Incentive Programs
Safety Incentive Programs I just heard of a company that is proudly spruiking its new reward scheme in support of its Zero Harm policy – Eeerkk! “Safety Incentives” is still a very popular term used to reach this blog from search engines! Without going into the complexities of human behaviour and … [Read more...] about Safety Incentive Programs
Marketing of OHS
Marketing of OHS By the late George Robotham Sometimes skills from other disciplines can be applied successfully to OHS, one such skill set is marketing. I have attended some marketing training but admittedly the focus was on marketing consultancy services. What I have tried to do with the … [Read more...] about Marketing of OHS
Keeping workers motivated over Christmas
Keeping workers motivated over Christmas Excerpt from latest article by Inside Retailing that relates well to safety issues faced by all organizations: Retailworld Resourcing released their top five tips for improving motivation and morale over the December month, when workplace morale often … [Read more...] about Keeping workers motivated over Christmas
Maximizing the Effective use of Incentives to improve safety performance
Maximizing the Effective use of Incentives to improve safety performance Scientific Proof of what many of us have know for ages – financial incentive schemes for not getting hurt are Crap! Great article by David Carter from Safety Success Extract: There are two areas of the brain that … [Read more...] about Maximizing the Effective use of Incentives to improve safety performance
Safety Incentives
Safety Incentives I've always thought that rewarding a team for not getting hurt was like winning a football game because you got less penalties than the other team rather than by the points you got from good team selection, training, tactics, teamwork and Coaching. George is similarly not in … [Read more...] about Safety Incentives
How Safety Incentives Can Prove Fatal
How Safety Incentives Can Prove Fatal This comedy skit would be quite funny if it weren’t so poignant! Anyone ever been to a site close to a major milestone and felt the tension? Anyone heard of injuries being covered up to protect an impressive record? Yep and Yep! WARNING – the ending is … [Read more...] about How Safety Incentives Can Prove Fatal