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#1 Posted : 19 July 2007 11:25:00(UTC)
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Posted By Andy Petrie
hi all,

we are looking at introducing a safety award scheme for our contractors to reward good performance.

I want to try and avoid thing like 'lowest incident rate' as I think this could lead to under reporting in order to win the prize.

Has anyone any ideas or experience of using other positive measures as a basis for measuring safety performance?

thanks in advance

Andy
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#2 Posted : 19 July 2007 15:18:00(UTC)
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
Andy

79 hits and not one suggestion! So here goes...

I agree, I don't like incentives based on AFRs etc. Why not something like proactive reporting of unsafe acts or conditions. It would be up to your discretion, but make sure it is a decent prize and well communicated.

Soon you will be flooded with 'em!

Ray
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#3 Posted : 19 July 2007 15:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By brian mills
Andy,

Have you come up with anyway of sorting the tax liability? We Used to have a couple of schemes in place, but the Tax problem has made it difficult.

Regards

Brian
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#4 Posted : 19 July 2007 16:00:00(UTC)
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Posted By wify
A free Friday breakfast to operatives who work safely and report any dangerous events / near misses.

It the simple things in life that keep our construction workers happy.
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#5 Posted : 20 July 2007 14:13:00(UTC)
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Posted By Carl Currie
How about the best Health & Safety suggestion?

The people who are out there day in day out carrying out the tasks could be the people who think of the next best working practice.

A site audit was carried out on a site i visited a couple of months back and they gave a scaffolder who had been working safely a DAB Radio. He was very happy indeed
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#6 Posted : 22 July 2007 22:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By Peter Haughey
Idea used by B & Q Stores (don't know if it is copyrighted)is to give out cards which state "Gotcha! You were spotted acting in a very safe manner - take this card to your Supervisor to claim one hour off on pay (or a £10 shop voucher)".

I think it is much better to award good acts than punish bad ones; and it may be easier to award them in a random manner, so everyone thinks they are in with a chance...
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