Tag: employee safety incentives

Employee Safety – Keep the Shiny Side Up

Employee Safety Keep the Shiny Side UpMay happens to be Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month and, with spring in full form, it’s the perfect time focus on safety – both on the road and in the workplace.  If you’ve ever experienced piloting a motorcycle on the open road or off-road trail, you know about the exhilaration and heightened sense of awareness that is a part of every ride.  Riding motorcycles is fun – but there is a lot more to being a motorcyclist than throwing a leg over the bike and taking off.  There is a technical side to riding that, when mastered, provides a sense of pride and accomplishment not found anywhere else.  Safety awareness and safe operation are part of the technical skills needed to get the most out of yourself and your bike.

If you’re interested in taking up the sport (or own a bike and haven’t had certified rider training) – please consider training offered by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF).  You are guaranteed to have a blast, learn a lot, and get your riding career off on the right track.  If you are an experienced rider, perhaps one of the many rider schools would interest you – such as Keith Code’s California Superbike School.

So, what does motorcycle safety awareness have to do with workplace safety?  Implementation of an employee safety incentive program shares many of the common-sense practices taught in rider training.  Consider the following when building and reinforcing your organization’s culture of safety.

  • Training is absolutely critical.  Correctly piloting your bike is a developed skill and highly rewarding.  It’s very satisfying to negotiate a particular stretch of road correctly – maintaining correct entry and exit speeds, lean angles, braking, throttle control, etc.  Likewise, workplace safety depends upon thorough and consistent training methods and communication.
  • Make the use of safety equipment mandatory.  Your safety incentive program should reinforce your overall safety initiative by helping to develop safe habits.  Wearing safety gear is a part of that, and taking shortcuts can be dangerous.  Never ride without full protective gear – and reward employees for always using safety equipment while on the job.
  • Utilize mentoring to further safe practices.  Fellow riders are always eager to lend a hand; offering assistance with advice, riding technique, and mechanical know-how.  Designate safety team members to fill this role with employees – there to bring along new arrivals and share safe practices.

Our structured QIC Safety Incentive Programs enhance the safety culture and elevate its prominence throughout the organization.  To find out more, contact us here.

Safety and Wellness Incentive Programs on the Rise

According to the inaugural 2014 Incentive Safety and Wellness survey by Incentive, budgets for safety and wellness incentive programs are increasing.  The survey also found that the primary reason behind companies’ expanding investments in safety and wellness is program effectiveness. Nearly three quarters – 73.5 percent – of respondents viewed their safety incentive program as… Read more »

Take Out Pizza and Online Points Programs – How Convenient!

I’ve discovered some interesting parallels between QIC’s online points programs – on the IncenTrac® platform — and take-out pizza.  First, I have a confession to make — I don’t cook (gasp!), and it’s not that I don’t know how or that I don’t enjoy cooking — I just don’t do it. It is time consuming… Read more »

Leading from the Front: Developing a Safety Culture

While researching ways leaders could communicate key safety incentive program messages to their participants, I came across a wonderful and informative post by Robert I. Sutton on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network.  In his post Robert shares a recent discussion he had with Paul Anderson.  Their discussion was centered on the impact Paul had… Read more »

Program Reviews: Key to Employee Recognition Program Success

It’s that time of year when many of our clients evaluate the employee recognition, or customer incentive programs that they sponsor with an eye toward their continuation and/or expansion in the upcoming year. Curtailment and abandonment are also options, but let’s not dwell on those possibilities! In all seriousness, whether the news is good, or… Read more »