Safety Pays is a fully-integrated system of rewards & recognition utilizing an entertaining bingo format. The game basics are as follows:
As long as all of the employees assigned to a Safety Pays game adhere to a Company’s safety rules/guidelines, individuals within that group will regularly (approximately once per month) win a progressive incentive dollar jackpot.
This jackpot will start at a base of $25 and grow by one dollar with one bingo number drawn per workday The jackpot continues to grow so long as the workforce fully adheres to the company’s safety policies.
However, if a safety infraction occurs, the game continues but the jackpot is reduced, proportionate to the type of infraction that occurred.
OSHA Compliant Sample Safety Bingo Rules: Each employee is given a B-SAFE card, and the game is played like regular bingo. Each working day, a B-SAFE number is drawn. Daily numbers are posted on the B-SAFE game. SAFETY BINGO™ is a powerful, low-cost tool that enables employers to combat and control spiraling workers’ compensation rates. SAFETY BINGO™ does this by motivating employees on a daily basis to create a safety conscious atmosphere resulting in fewer safety related injuries and increased productivity and employee morale.
- If it is an observed breach of safety rules, the jackpot is reduced by $2.
- If the safety infraction results in an actual loss, the jackpot is reduced to its base of $25.
- If there’s a near-miss incident, the jackpot is reduced anywhere from halfway to all of the way back to its base.
- Safety Bingo Game Program Safety Pays is NOT just safety bingo. Yes, it has its roots in safety bingo, but the two are as different from one another as a Ferrari is from a Model-T. The term “safety bingo” is a simple workplace incentive concept that’s been around since the 1950’s.
- Treesmiths Safety Bingo. 5x5 / 150 words / 0 images / Created 2019-02-28. HCFR SAFETY BINGO. 5x5 / 31 words / 0 images / Created 2014-01-03. Bring Them Home Safely.
- Safety bingo is a great way to keep track of work injuries and incentivize workplace safety. Sign up for a Bingo Baker account. Generate or find a bingo card for your safety bingo game. Print out your bingo cards or send your team the bingo URL to play virtually.
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In all of these scenarios, the game continues with the jackpot rebuilding from there. If the loss occurred with no accompanying safety infraction, the jackpot continues to grow.
Most companies normally choose to place a cap on the jackpot (eg. $150, $200, $250 — whatever is appropriate given budget parameters, company policy, etc.)
Safety Pays believes there should always be a carrot at the end of the stick in order to create greater safety awareness. The size of that carrot is determined by only one metrics:
Strict adherence to the all Company safety protocols.
Reward should always be commensurate with achievement. However, safety incentives should never discourage but always encourage the desired behavior.
So, the Safety Pays approach is to consistently produce winners at the conclusion of each game round.
That way, an employee who is diligently working to be safe and close to winning a game round, will never feel demoralized by the cancellation of the reward. Instead, he or she knows a reward remains within their grasp; and one that continues to grow larger with each passing day.
Stopping a game – in fact, cancelling any safety incentive reward when an incident occurs is not only discouraging to those workers who are continuing to make an effort to succeed, but can also lead to injury hiding by an employee who doesn’t want to “kill the game” for everyone else because the reward is thereafter cancelled.
In addition to the game’s group incentive, opportunities for Bonus Card play — with special added dollar values — are generated. Those employees who provide the best safety suggestions during each game round are awarded extra cards for subsequent play. Bonus cards can also be awarded for a variety of individual behavior-based initiatives — “above and beyond the call”, perfect attendance, good housekeeping, helping others, etc.
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Supporting these dollar incentives is an entertaining system of rules enforcement, winner recognition, employee accountability (to prevent fraudulent and post-termination claims) as well as effective safety communication– all in a user-friendly design to allow easy program administration.