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Improving Your Safety
With a Behavioral Approach
(Reprinted from Hydrocarbon Processing)

Design options for safety awards and incentives
(Table 7)

Terry E. McSween

  Simple or Concurrent Safety Awards Social Awards Process Tiered Safety Awards Process Safety Integrated with Traditional Compensation Safety Incentives
Recognition or Awards Fixed award for everyone
   - OR -
Menu of items or events		 Social recognition, usually in context of staff meetings and written thank-you notes Multiple 'tiers' with menu of recognition items or events appropriate to each tier Merit increase or annual performance bonus Incentive bonus or time off provided upon meeting criteria
Criteria* Criteria specified in advance for each separate program Usually not established in advance Provides guidelines on behaviors or results appropriate for each 'tier' Criteria established as part of annual objective setting process Objective criteria specified in advance
Participants Individuals and teams Individuals and teams Individuals and teams Usually management personnel Individuals and teams
Considerations Simple programs must be constantly varied to maintain novelty and keep awards meaningful
Concurrent safety awards provide good distribution and variety of awards and also increase the probability of awards for safe performance		 Often difficult to ensure that all levels and functions are included equally Provide good variety and wide distribution of awards
Increase the probability of awards for safe performance		 Requires that those who evaluate personnel know about safety activities Usually requires management or staff observations of safety activities in their areas
Gainsharing often funded by savings in workman's compensation

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This article first appeared in Hydrocarbon Processing (August 1993) and is reproduced here with permission.