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RE: Safety Incentive Programs

ReclaimRanger — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:55:19 GMT

Quoting "Revelation 13:18"? A reader of the Good Book and a science man?

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Jerry — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:54:46 GMT

HALLELJAH

He has risen.

The name has returned.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Jerry — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:33:36 GMT

"The beatings will stop, when safety improves"

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Victor — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:08:40 GMT

Repent Sinners:

"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is ..."

Safety violations shall be met with fire and brimstone.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

01785435 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:16:27 GMT

I'm not Jerry any more. Like the "Secret Agent man", they took away my name and gave me a number.

Anyway, I don't drink on the job. I drink on breaks(lottsa breaks) and lunch.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

ReclaimRanger — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:38:22 GMT

Aren't you allowed to drink on the job where you're at Jerry. Maybe that's the key...........

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

JTLaLiberte — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:03:14 GMT

I'm in the group that does not consider "incentive" programs to be a good thing. We had a monetary program that went quite a while before an LTA. Once the door was open and the money was not in play, it was back to previous levels.

Another thing is that people tend to hide injuries when these programs are working. They don't want to ruin it for everyone. This can lead to complications down the line.

The best incentive is to go home in the same condition in which you arrived (assuming that was healthy and sober).

An active safety comittee composed of all levels is key. Also, finding the root cause of accidents allows you to eliminate the causes by focusing on the real problems.

Good luck.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Jerry — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:30:58 GMT

They just had 4000 safe hours where I'm at. They brain wash you about safety.They preach it day and night like communism. I think if you do have an accident,you will disappear.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

ack4105 — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:08:54 GMT

We had an incentive program where the employees would do area/people audits on a two week basis. We had the employees split up into teams and required everyone to complete an audit to qualify for a drawing. We used bingo and a poker setup for the drawing setup either a number or a card. We did this for a quater and if a team got a bingo or who ever had the best hand would win a money prize.

We ended up canceling the program because the results were poor we ended up with more safety violations during these periods then in the past and some of the people who won a prize were involved on the violations.

My advice stay away from money as a prize for being safe. I would think heading home everyday to your family with nothing wrong is reward enough.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Dvant — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:12:07 GMT

Kristina,

I like safety incentive programs, but I don't like the way most places run them. Most places give you something for not getting hurt and if you have an accident everyone loses out. This could foster a bad attitude towards a person already having a bad day. A better incentive program rewards for participation. Reward a shift for making it through a video series with full participation. Have coffee at your tailgate meeting, good coffee.

Give small rewards for participation in the safety culture, just dont be cheap. Think about what the reward says about your meeting. Old doughnuts and stale coffee and your meeting will flop.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Jada — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:20:03 GMT

Your having a committee to even think about such things is a +++, but do you have an ongoing problem-solving team within which employees and managers can submit problems that need systemic solutions? Our upper management was opposed to this format in general (thinking that if the employees were kept ignorant the enterprise would not be liable), but was required to adopt it by the risk-management types. After it was put within resonsibility of a manager who recognized the importance of consensus operation in this area, it was pretty successful. Forms for employees to submit issues were readily available and each submission was tracked.

If you have a context for considering and *acting on* safety suggestions, something like an annual "best suggestion" award might be useful. This can be used as a hook for reminding folks to be alert to potential hazards.

If you don't have a context for working on safety suggestions, or a way to deal with hazards on a very-fast basis if need be, such a program can look pretty hypocritical. You should not find yourself thinking about giving life-saving awards if hazards are the result of deteriorating infrastructure, lack of training, lack of safety equipment (rusting pipes can break and cause flooding; welding sparks can cause fires in ill-suited areas; lack of proper confined-space entry and lockout procedures can expose entrants to hazards from suffocation to drowining).

As Victor notes, bottom line is lack of accidents, injuries and illness.

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

cb — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:44:32 GMT

I would agree to Victor.. Far I am concern, I enforce the safety rules at my plant at all times. I dont want to spend two days filling reports why the person got hurt and reporting to my higher up bosses ( also explain what happen to them).

RE: Safety Incentive Programs

Victor — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:36:41 GMT

Kristina:

The safety award process is somewhat something of a turkey. The safety tailgates are supposed to keep you out of trouble and inform you where things might go wrong. This means that the majority of persons will not have accidents--and there are those that do not ascribe to the Darwinian process "survival of the fittest" and will do stupid things. They get to write up a report and everything else associated with accidents. I do not thing that giving out turkey awards are politically correct. The safe people will somehow have to compete one way or another to earn some type of safety recognition. Going a certain number of years without accidents, submitting ideas to increase safety awareness/problem areas, or just picking out a name out of hat. You'll just have to make this distinction!

Safety Incentive Programs

Kristina — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:38:20 GMT

I'm liking the new and improved WEF forums! And, I get to be the first to post a topic in the Safety & Health board! Yay!

Our organization is undergoing an assessment of our safety incentive program. Since I'm on that committee, I would LOVE to hear from others in the wastewater industry about the safety culture in their organization, the incentive programs that they use, and how they judge the success of those programs. I thank you all in advance,

--Kristina