Safe Culture and Incentive Programs

1. Safe Culture and Incentive Programs

2. Assessing your Safety Department • First step: Look at program/s • Be open to outside criticism, your ideas may not be the best • Do an assessment, let the employees on all levels assess safety, be anonymous • Culture assessment: do you have a safe culture (not want you think, but employees) • Get Management involved

3. Assessing your Safety Department • Identify problems • People, equipment, facilities, programs, software, communication, etc... • Prevention • What can you do, and your people do to help prevent injuries and damage? • Communicate with each other, be real about facts, dollars, how it impacts them • Investigate, include supervisors, management, all involved in incident

4. Assessing your Safety Department • Track your data! • DART – track quarterly, communicate it to locations • Injuries – types, who, what, when, where, why, and how. • Inspections – Myself, OSHA consultant, insurance companies, explain why you do it, what the benefit is, if not done how it could impact them ($$$$$$) • Communicate problems from each location, this helps prevent, and bring the locations together as a team

5. Assessing your Safety Department • Why do all this, I mean isn't being safe just part of the job? • People are not aware of just how much it impacts them • Most people want to do their best • Keeps awareness up • Helps develop a safe culture

6. Developing a Safety Culture • Start with a culture assessment • Get a good idea of where your culture is • Keep anonymous • Take negative criticism seriously • Include everyone • Fix the issues • Don’t do it, unless you plan on acting on it

7. Developing a Safety Culture • Ask your middle management and supervisors the problems with safety they are facing. • Why employees will not comply • Do supervisors comply • Acknowledge what is done more than what is not done • Educate Managers, Supervisors, and Employees • Communication barrier or gaps in communication • Get the info in the right hands

8. Developing a Safety Culture • Do as I say not as I do???? • Follow by example • Learn the jobs, or even spend time doing the job • Understand the obstacles a safety rule or PPE might create for workers, find a solution or help them to understand exactly why they need the rules or PPE’s

9. Incentive Programs • Small, but impactful • Ask committees, locations, employees • Awareness • Safety Treats • Cookies, even tough guys love them • Quarterly, based on injuries • End of year reward (Shirts, plaques etc..) • Benchmarks performance • A way to say thanks for thinking about safety • Raises awareness

10. Incentive Programs • Caught in the Act • Placed on intranet for all to access • Employees nominate each other for being safe • Housekeeping • Personal Protective Equipment • Proper Lifting Techniques • Safety Communication • Truck Safety • Forklift Safety

11. Incentive Programs • Spot Awards • Hats • Shirts • Raise awareness immediately • Compliment a job well done • A small safe act, this can go a long way • Others notice • People ask why

12. Incentive Programs • Driver of the Month • Random selection • Performance and MVR • Most Important Part of Incentive Programs??? • ALWAYS COMMUNICATE TO NEVER HIDE INJURIES!!! • Explain this thoroughly • Give examples, be sure trainers and supervisors understand and promote this

13. Conclusion • Assess – yourself, management, programs • Develop – programs that work for everyone • Rely – on your people • Meaningful – make safety mean something • Reach out – to employees, make yourself accessible • Effective – be as effective as possible • Incentives – raise awareness, reward