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bluewater  
#1 Posted : 29 September 2015 13:55:04(UTC)
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bluewater

We are currently planning to set up an in-house monthly safety award for the best safety suggestion/concern raised by the workforce. Said award will be nominated to the winning individual by a welfare committee. For anyone who has already one of these schemes in place...what criteria do you use in deciding who gets the award? Do you use a matrix or a point scoring system etc? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards Frank
bluewater  
#2 Posted : 29 September 2015 16:32:29(UTC)
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bluewater

29 views and no assistance!!1 Help please guys.
DHM  
#3 Posted : 29 September 2015 16:44:47(UTC)
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DHM

Help us out by telling what sort of work processes or industry you are in? What are the hazards, how many employees, what is the budget for rewarding good behaviour??
jodieclark1510  
#4 Posted : 29 September 2015 16:53:19(UTC)
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jodieclark1510

You could always compare ideas to your accidents stats- ideas where there have been a number of similar accidents. You could also do a monthly theme and base suggestions on that for example one month fire safety, the next manual handling etc. I'm afraid I haven't been involved in these types of schemes, we had health and safety week but that ended the week I started my last job and I left before the next one came around!
bluewater  
#5 Posted : 30 September 2015 10:22:27(UTC)
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bluewater

DHM wrote:
Help us out by telling what sort of work processes or industry you are in? What are the hazards, how many employees, what is the budget for rewarding good behavior??
It's an office environment in west Africa and we are wanting to encourage the staff to be observant around the building and report anything they see as a safety or welfare concern. I simply need a list of standards that we can use to decide on the winning observation, and the reward is a monitory voucher. Criteria needs to be SMART.
graemecollard  
#6 Posted : 30 September 2015 14:16:46(UTC)
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graemecollard

We have this system, its run off our in house TOFS/STOP card system. One is chosen every month and the raiser is awarded a choice of reward. We have cinema vouchers for two as our prize. Cheap, but effective. The award is made on a rolling basis by departmental managers. This allows them to champion their own agendas for things they would like to see raised on the cards. Its not only improvement suggestions that are put through, any vaugely safety related observation can be raised. We record the category of observation and track their sizes as an indication of things which require attention. We do get some crap through the system, people exercising their own grievances with other individuals ect, and some confusion between this and out defect reporting system (our line is you can raise both, but the observation card won't get the problem fixed, so raise a defect too) but in general its a very useful engagement tool. We have an operation in Egypt, and the local guys were encouraged to participate too. It took a while to build up the engagement, but they did. It sometimes makes for some entertaining spelling mistakes. I'm sure you'll get some good feedback in West Africa! best of luck.
graemecollard  
#7 Posted : 30 September 2015 14:19:27(UTC)
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graemecollard

as to the original question, the "Criteria" we set was "Most beneficial". That leaves it nice a broad, so we can reward good suggestions, positive safety behaviour or a helpful intervention that made a situation safe.
Tarasafety  
#8 Posted : 02 October 2015 16:02:24(UTC)
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Tarasafety

Use a multiplier to devise a score, lets safe 1 to 5, Job function x Potential Impact or Actual improvement x Individual action = Safety Score Job function = Is their job a senior, middle or junior position. The more junior the more you score. Potential impact or Actual improvement = Potential for loss or injury avoided or benefit to organisational safety, more benefits equals higher score. Individual action = did the person detect the issue and only notify someone ( score 1) or did they as part of a team improve the situation (score 3) or were they a superstar and led the improvement from start to finish (score 5) This is the method I use
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