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Rewarding Good Safety
● One of the most important things in
developing a strong Safety culture is
rewarding people who make the effort
to improve standards.
● Another is to coach individuals who ● We introduced an award ceremony for
don’t meet the standards. the best supervisors and most compli-
ant workers which was based upon a
● Vincent had great success in changing
the safety culture on a project where scoring system over the month.
the culture was originally poor taking ● Workers who remained compliant over
it to high compliance levels within 3 the month were placed in a draw to win
months. vouchers of 50 CHF.
● This was achieved by monitoring the ● At the end of month there were presen-
performance of supervisors/workers tations in which workers took great
and coaching them on achieving good interest to find out who won the prizes.
practice. The client acknowledged the
significant efforts the company were ● Safety quizzes and spot the hazards
making to improve Safety standards. were introduced to encourage workers
to get involved with safety initiatives.
● This helped the company reach over
500,000 man-hours without a Lost
Time Incident, (LTI).
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