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Like Safety Bingo, the “ Safety STAR ” program is based on providing rewards to teams of employees who work without an accident or injury. Employees who see and talk to each other every day make the best teams. Team sizes should range from 50 to 80 employees.
The game starts by handing out Safety Star game cards to all employees at a kick off meeting to explain the prize schedule and game rules. Every two weeks employees are given a Safety Star game card to recognize the group's completing a two week period without an accident or injury.
Employees scratch off the silver boxes and match workplace hazard symbols to win cash. These cash prizes increase in value every two week period throughout the program. An injury or accident returns the group to the original prize base, period one on the prize schedule. You can see that there is a real incentive for keeping the injury record unbroken. This simple format provides a powerful incentive that is extremely effective and easy to administer.
The type of injury that would re-start a team on the prize schedule depends on your injury history. Most companies use the OSHA defined lost time or recordable injury to return a team to the first prize level.
One of the additional advantages of lottery style game cards is the ability to reward individual employees or employee groups for demonstrating positive safety behavior. Additional game cards can be given at any time during the program for exceptional safety performance such as: resolving an unsafe condition, superior housekeeping or making an outstanding safety suggestion. Some employers choose to award Safety Star game cards for accomplishments in the other performance areas like, customer service and quality improvements.
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