Safety Incentives
A Little Recognition Goes a Long Way
Economic realities have forced some companies to get creative with their reward and incentive programs. ...
Economy Impacting Incentive Rewards
Has your company cut back on the incentives and rewards associated with your safety recognition programs? While new cars and expensive trips and electronics were the norm at some companies years ago, that's all changed...
The Break Room: Don’t Write Off the Importance of Recognition
Why appreciation is sometimes the best award of all....
A Boss's Guide to Navigating the Holiday Season at Work
The approaching holiday seasons spells Christmas cookies, snowflake decorations, holiday parties and, hopefully, some good cheer. But if you're the boss, you can't relax entirely – according to an expert from Wake Forest University, supervisors and managers shoulder the responsibility of successfully navigating the holiday season in the workplace...
NSC 2011: Storytelling, Collaboration and Safety from the Heart
According to National Safety Council (NSC) Congress and Expo keynote speaker Peter Sheahan, the key to making significant behavior changes in safety can be found not necessarily in overcoming our challenges, but in looking beyond our past successes...
Sandy Says: Someone Stole My Pumpkins; I QUIT!!
Living in the city, you have to be tough. For some, the last straw was a pumpkin theft. What’s your last straw?...
Cash Incentives Not Always King When Motivating Employees
A new study from the Incentive Research Foundation and the Incentive Federation finds that tangible awards often are more effective than cash when trying to motivate employees...
Enthusiasm for Occupational Health and Safety: When It’s a Benefit and When It’s Not
Offer employees a helping hand as they navigate complex tasks by ensuring they are motivated, prepared and practiced...
AIHce 2011: The Ins and Outs of I2P2 and Worker Involvement
The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) is still considered OSHA’s top rulemaking priority and safety stakeholders and businesses alike are curious what, exactly, would make up the rule’s content and scope. Several leaders discussed I2P2 in a roundtable discussion May 16 at AIHce in Portland, Oregon...
Study: Wellness Incentives Can Contribute to Reduced Health Care Costs
According to a new study, offering employees incentives as part of wellness programs can spell better health and reduced corporate health care costs...
Building a Safety Performance Culture, One Mile at a Time
A program launched in 2006 to proactively improve a national materials and transportation construction company’s safety record continues to foster positive results – both in actual reductions in accidents and insurance costs, and in increases in employee participation and commitment to positive behaviors around the workplace...
Benefits of Employee Recognition in the Workplace: Reduced Risk & Raised Revenues
Retaining engaged and talented employees is an important component in curbing risk...
VPPPA Supports OSHA’s Position on Incentive Programs
The Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association Inc. (VPPPA) has come out in support of OSHA’s position that incentive programs must not encourage underreporting of injury and illnesses. The question of the merit of incentive programs resurfaced when OSHA, as part of its National Emphasis Program on Recordkeeping, suggested that the existence of incentive programs may qualify for deliberate under-reporting, raising a recordkeeping violation from “other-than-serious” to the willful level...
Manager’s Role in Employee Engagement More Important than Ever
When companies take proactive steps to help managers recognize employees, they are more likely to reap rewards in the form of better employee productivity, improved customer service, revenue growth and return on working capital, according to a new executive briefing released by Madison Performance Group. The paper offers specific strategies companies can use to support a front line manager's role in enterprise wide engagement efforts...
Study: Employees More Likely to Cheat with Bonus-Based Incentives Programs
Paying employees to perform better can enhance their productivity, but also can entice them to cheat, according to a new study by Ryerson University and University of Guelph researchers...
Employee Motivation and Incentives
In this edition, EHS Today Senior Editor Laura Walter speaks to Paul Balmert and Sean Roark to learn how incentive programs can encourage safe working behaviors, how leadership impacts motivation, how to design an effective incentives program and more...
Managing Safety: Motivational Punishment: Beaten by Carrots and Sticks
There are few endeavors in which intelligent and well-intentioned professionals more regularly fail than in the implementation of incentives and rewards for safety...
Incentives: Is Behavior the Key to an Effective Program?
One effective approach to recognizing employees is to use incentives to reinforce defined safety behaviors...
Battery Cables and Behavior Change
What do battery cables, behavior change and employee recognition have in common? More than you think...
Global Survey Shows Businesses Turn to Wellness Programs to Improve Productivity
According to a recent global survey, improving productivity by keeping employees healthy and working is emerging as the top business objective for employer-sponsored wellness programs around the world – except in the United States, where reducing health care cost increases continues to be the top goal, and Asia, where the most important objective is improving work force morale...
Safety and the Science of Human Behavior
In an interview with EHS Today, leadership expert Dr. Aubrey C. Daniels discussed positive reinforcement, realistic safety goals, incentives and how the science of behavior can impact workplace safety. ...
ASSE: Allow Stakeholders to Weigh in on VPP
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President Warren K. Brown stressed that ASSE members and other key stakeholders must be given the chance to help identify improvements in the program...
NAOSH Week 2009: 'Safety Means Always Coming Home'
The theme of this year's North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week, held May 3-9 to help raise awareness about the importance of workplace safety, health and the environment, is "Safety Means Always Coming Home."...
Gift Cards Gain among Incentive Marketers
Incentive marketing suppliers are selling a record number of gift cards to corporate customers as part of employee recognition and motivation programs,...
TECO Employees Flip for Safety Coins
TECO Peoples Gas in Florida employs nearly 600 workers. Since many of these employees work with natural gas, their jobs inherently are dangerous. So,...
