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Although safety programs are effective for cutting workplace injuries in all workplace environments; manufacturing is an optimal industry segment to promote workplace safety incentives. Workplace environments can be harsh and employee safety is a number one concern and constant initiative. Formal safety reward programs provide an important function to motivate employees to take proper safety precautions and adapt to the safer behaviors that your environment demands. If employees are motivated to take safety awareness seriously enough to reduce the likelihood of accidents, and the program is properly structured with measurement methods in place; the company will realize ROI in increased performance, and reduced healthcare insurance premiums. Following are a few examples of typical safety and workplace incentive programs that manufacturers employ:

Using gaming to engage employees has been proven effective in a number of different scenarios. Here are three stages of the employment process where gamification has been successful. How does your company use gamification to engage employees?  

Measuring employee engagement is crucial to ensuring that your organizations' time and money are well invested in these kinds of programs. Establishing a successful employee engagement and rewards program can be measured in just a few short steps.

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Social gaming is an emerging trend in social media, gaming, and employee engagement. Games like Farmville have engaged millions through Facebook, and that type of addictive social game experience is now being applied to health and wellness programs. Keas is a social gaming application being used to promote office exercise, team camaraderie, and lower health care costs. The application eliminates lazy, sedentary lifestyles, helping employees lose weight and minimize chronic illness, while providing a fun interactive game experience. Employees can track progress and monitor their health improvement, while also interacting with and getting to know their coworkers.
The interface, pictured above, looks very similar to popular social media sights such as Twitter and Facebook, which provides a level of comfort and familiarity to the user. To make this type of gaming even more effective, add rewards upon accomplishment of goals. Spot rewards such as gift cards can be great for these types of programs because the gift card like AutoZone, CVS, The Limited, and Charming Shoppes can be used to help the employee maintain a healthy lifestyle. Leveraging the popularity of social media can help lower your company's healthcare costs while helping employees live a healthy lifestyle.  
For more information on Social Gaming for Health and Wellness check out this Mashable article.