Incentives: Small Investments Equal Big Rewards
Employers often turn to recognition or safety incentive programs to encourage and reward safe work behaviors. The idea is to give workers not just praise,...
Liberty Mutual Driver Survey: Costs of Crashes on the Rise
Looking at loss sources, the study assigned an injury type based on the activity being performed when the injury occurred. The study found that the frequency...
Safety as Its Own Incentive
For years, companies have been implementing safety incentive or recognition programs to motivate employees to act and think safely in the workplace. Proponents...
The Secrets of Successful Safety Incentive Programs
Informing safety, health and industrial hygiene professionals in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors about trends, management strategies, regulatory news and new products that help them provide safe and healthy work sites....
From Tragedy to Triumph: Safety Grows Wings at Golden Eagle
by Don Williamson and Jon Kaufman Rich Leland has worked at the Golden Eagle Refinery for 24 years. He's survived a succession of name and ownership changes,...
Success Dispels Skepticism for Companies with Incentives Programs
Before Knoxville, Tenn.-based Denark Construction Inc. started a safety incentive program in 1999, safety manager Kaye Love-Dodgen was skeptical. "I talked...
Seven Suggestions for a Successful Safety Incentives Program
For years, stakeholders have been debating the best ways to implement a safety incentives program. Should the program be results-based or process-based?...
Safety Incentive Programs: What Works?
Even as recently as 5 years ago, the vast majority of companies that offered safety incentive programs provided cash, prizes, awards or other forms of...
Safety Incentives: Why Cash Isn't King
There seem to be as many incentive and motivational options out there as there are reasons to motivate employees. Trips, cars, watches, gift certificates,...
Safety Incentives: It's Not Just a Breakfast Anymore
Imagine watching your co-worker parade down a catwalk to the tune of "I'm Too Sexy." He's wearing safety glasses, a faceshield, gloves, steel-toed shoes,...
Putting Incentives to Work
Don Eggenschwiller has no intention of turning his back on the safety and health field's technical foundation. He is convinced, however, that safety success...
