In Workplace Injury System, Ill Will on All Sides
Nice article on using incentive program. I am not a fans for just giving out incentive, just be cause. These type of incentives must be tied to some activity that the employee performs. Remember, “There is no Free Lunch.”
STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 5:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 5:14 a.m.TONAWANDA, N.Y. — The sprawling DuPont plant along the Niagara River here can be a grim place, but less so on the days when the company hands out coupons to reward workers for a few weeks without injury.
Called “safety bucks,” the coupons look like real money and can be redeemed at Red Lobster, Home Depot and several other businesses in the area.
For some workers who risk their fingers and bones to make Corian, the stonelike countertop material that is the plant’s major product, the coupons have become a modest blessing and benefit. But other workers regard them as a curse, as a way to mobilize peer pressure against workers who might consider reporting an injury.
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