Safety Incentive Program

Promoting Safety in the Workplace . . .

With a properly structured safety incentive program you can change your safety culture, protect against preventable workplace injuries, decrease lost-time and expect to be rewarded with lower disability costs, better employee moral and a higher productivity.

It's a powerful question but may not be the most important one. Those new to safety incentive programs too easily focus on what kinds of incentives to offer. The more critical questions start with "how."

• How do we set goals for our safety incentive program?
• How can we get the most for our incentives buck?
• How can we sustain the incentive program to promote safety in the workplace?

The obvious purpose of safety incentive programs is to raise safety awareness and to promote safety in the workplace along with employee buy in towards safety.

Incentives are based on a variety of criteria:

• days without recordable incidents
• reporting near-miss incidents
• months without lost-time injuries
• making safety suggestions
• decreases in workers-compensation claims

Using Safety Incentive Programs Wisely

Safety incentive programs when used properly and within a proper framework of other collaborating techniques can be effective tools for helping to motivate and encourage employees to:

• Practice safe job behavior.
• Reduce accidents and injuries.
• Attend company safety meetings.
• The resulting savings in both monetary and human terms in regards to improved safety in the workplace and increased savings on Worker's Compensation insurance can be overwhelming.

With a properly structured safety incentive program you can change your safety culture, protect against accidents, decrease lost-time, and expect to be rewarded with lower disability costs, more satisfied workers, and, ultimately, higher productivity!

Bailey Environmental & Safety Training Consultants can successfully develop your safety incentive program to reach any of these goals, each with a different impact on a company's bottom line.