Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This week I would like to share a recording of an article written by Terry Mathis. Motivational Punishment: Beaten By Carrots and Sticks was published by EHS Today in March 2010. If you would like to see the actual article it can be found at: http://ehstoday.com/safety/news/motivational-punishment-beaten-carrots-sticks-1120/index.html. You can also find it (and all our other published articles) by visiting www.ProActSafety.com and click on Insights. I hope you enjoy!
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings, recorded this podcast from the road in Naperville, Illinois. Recently we held our 9th Annual Behavior-Based Safety (AKA: Behaviour-Based Safety) Conference. Upon completion we asked the audience to share what they would like more information on. We then promised that we would focus our next Terry-Shawn conversational podcast on it. The result: More Thoughts on using Motivation in safety efforts. So, here it is!
Before listening, consider this: Do you reward for no accidents, extrinsically incentivize for desirable behaviors, or do you create an environment that allows people to increase their intrinsic self-motivation for safety? Terry and I share our thoughts on the use of motivation within safety. In this discussion we talk about why motivation works and what doesn’t. We also talk about the use of incentives and rewards. If you would like more thoughts on this subject see the Safety Incentives and rewards Category on this page (www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com). I hope you enjoy!
Have a great week,
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Greetings from New Orleans, Louisiana. I received a great question via email that we would like to address this week. The email said this: “I was listening to the various podcasts on safety incentive and reward programs and I have a question. We are currently attempting a safety incentive program but it’s not the most effective thing we’ve done. I think a reward program would benefit us better at this stage. My question is how can we transition from a safety incentive program to a safety reward program?” For this week Terry and I will try to offer our experiences that have been helpful with our clients. We often work with companies to help them assess their existing safety incentive and reward programs and performance management systems. We then help customize either site specific or organizational guidance for incentive and reward programs for safety. I hope this week we are able to offer some helpful quick ideas that you can self implement if you too are struggling with this issue.
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from the Dumfries and Galloway Region of Scotland. Do you incentivize and reward the things that improve safety or only the lowering of accident rates and costs? Understanding the impact of incentives and rewards on leading and lagging indicators, often provides insight on whether you are driving proactive or reactive approaches to safety? Sometimes even with the best approaches, if you are not looking at both types of indicators, you might not realize it, but you might be rewarding non-productive activities and efforts. For this week’s podcast Terry offers his thoughts on associating incentives and rewards to leading and lagging indicators for safety. You will hear Terry reference advance subscription-based podcasts. In the near future we will release these advanced, action-oriented podcasts that provides experience-based guidelines on how to improve all the different facets of a safety culture. If you would like to be one of the first to have access to these tools prior to public release, please send us an email at podcast@proactsafety.com..
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Danville, Pennsylvania and show number 69! Two weeks ago we started a discussion about Incentives and Rewards for Safety. We began with our philosophical view of these approaches to safety and last week shared our thoughts, on what incentive and reward programs are, and their differences. For the podcast this week you will hear Terry Mathis and I discussing the differences in rewarding teams and individuals for safety. I believe there are positive aspects of both, yet we all know even with the best intentions, sometimes things can go wrong. So without giving too much away, let’s get started!
If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use. All files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Corvallis, Oregon and SCE show number 68! Last week we talked about incentive programs and our philosophical view of them. This week we would like to share our thoughts on what incentive and reward programs are, and their differences. Just a reminder, we recently released the date for our “Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator Seminar“. In the next couple of weeks we will be releasing the dates for our other public seminar topics as well. Visit www.proactsafety.com for the details. So without further delay, here is Terry and I discussing this week’s topic!
If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use. All files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from East Brunswick, New Jersey. The use of incentives for safety is nothing new. A quick search yielded over 27,000 results. This week Terry and I will initiate this topic that I’m sure will be continued over many, many podcasts. To begin, this week you will hear Terry talk about how safety incentive programs can be easily placed into three broad categories.
If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use. All files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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