1. Safe Culture and Incentive Programs

2. Assessing your Safety Department
First step: Look at program/s
Be open to outside criticism, your ideas may not be the best
Do an assessment, let the employees on all levels assess safety, be anonymous
Culture assessment: do you have a safe culture (not want you think, but employees)
Get Management involved

3. Assessing your Safety Department
Identify problems
People, equipment, facilities, programs, software, communication, etc...
Prevention
What can you do, and your people do to help prevent injuries and damage?
Communicate with each other, be real about facts, dollars, how it impacts them
Investigate, include supervisors, management, all involved in incident

4. Assessing your Safety Department
Track your data!
DART – track quarterly, communicate it to locations
Injuries – types, who, what, when, where, why, and how.
Inspections – Myself, OSHA consultant, insurance companies, explain why you do it, what the benefit is, if not done how it could impact them ($$$$$$)
Communicate problems from each location, this helps prevent, and bring the locations together as a team

5. Assessing your Safety Department
Why do all this, I mean isn't being safe just part of the job?
People are not aware of just how much it impacts them
Most people want to do their best
Keeps awareness up
Helps develop a safe culture

6. Developing a Safety Culture
Start with a culture assessment
Get a good idea of where your culture is
Keep anonymous
Take negative criticism seriously
Include everyone
Fix the issues
Don’t do it, unless you plan on acting on it

7. Developing a Safety Culture
Ask your middle management and supervisors the problems with safety they are facing.
Why employees will not comply
Do supervisors comply
Acknowledge what is done more than what is not done
Educate Managers, Supervisors, and Employees
Communication barrier or gaps in communication
Get the info in the right hands

8. Developing a Safety Culture
Do as I say not as I do????
Follow by example
Learn the jobs, or even spend time doing the job
Understand the obstacles a safety rule or PPE might create for workers, find a solution or help them to understand exactly why they need the rules or PPE’s

9. Incentive Programs Small, but impactful
Ask committees, locations, employees
Awareness
Safety Treats
Cookies, even tough guys love them
Quarterly, based on injuries
End of year reward (Shirts, plaques etc..)
Benchmarks performance
A way to say thanks for thinking about safety
Raises awareness

10. Incentive Programs Caught in the Act
Placed on intranet for all to access
Employees nominate each other for being safe
Housekeeping
Personal Protective Equipment
Proper Lifting Techniques
Safety Communication
Truck Safety
Forklift Safety

11. Incentive Programs Spot Awards Raise awareness immediately Hats Shirts
Compliment a job well done
A small safe act, this can go a long way
Others notice
People ask why

12. Incentive Programs Driver of the Month
Random selection
Performance and MVR
Most Important Part of Incentive Programs???
ALWAYS COMMUNICATE TO NEVER HIDE INJURIES!!!
Explain this thoroughly
Give examples, be sure trainers and supervisors
understand and promote this

13. Conclusion Assess – yourself, management, programs
Develop – programs that work for everyone
Rely – on your people
Meaningful – make safety mean something
Reach out – to employees, make yourself accessible
Effective – be as effective as possible
Incentives – raise awareness, reward