Looking at Employee Wellness as Part of Employee Safety
On the GCP blog we often address employee wellness and employee safety as two great ways to use gift cards. However employee wellness is a part of employees safety, in a broader sense that just at the workplace. Here are 7 steps from HR.BLR.com on how to incorporate an employees wellness program effectively, positioned as employees safety.
3 Tips for Effective Employee Incentives
How to Write an Effective Workplace Safety Program
The total cost of workplace injuries was $167 billion in 2021, with a loss of 103,000,000 work days. These kinds of numbers demonstrate the importance of safety management in the workplace. Ensuring safety goes beyond mere compliance; it requires a comprehensive approach that fosters a culture of safety. Drawing insights from modern safety practices, here's an updated guide to crafting an effective employee safety program.
Gamification fits for Employee Motivation
Gamification is rapidly growing as a tool for employee motivation. According to a new report from research firm
Markets and Markets, the gamification industry will be worth $5.5 billion by 2018, up from $421 million this year. With this significant increase, if your company isn't already gamifying employee motivation it’s time to start. The incredible predicted growth of the industry over the next 5 years is an indication that gamification is working and that both employer and employee adoption rates are on the rise. Driving employees to desired behavior and self-motivation through a social outlet is a double reward. Humans are social beings, so whether it’s productive to our work or not we seek out social opportunities at work. By implementing gamification employees get motivated to desired behaviors by providing rewards, and satiate their need for a social experience through an organizationally sponsored channel. The social outlet and small rewards like gift cards to retailers like
Speedway and
Boston Market, combined with the increased productivity motivated employees bring, creates a win/win for the whole organization. This double positive for employers and employees builds harmonious relationships that will maintain employee motivation long after the game is over.
Employee Safety Starts with the WorkForce
As 2013’s National Safety Month nears its end it’s a great time to reflect on this year’s theme; "
Safety Starts With Me." The message is a great reminder to employers that creating a culture where employee safety is a priority empowers the workforce to keep safety in mind at all times. Companies work from the ground up to build a variety of employee safety programs, going from having nothing in place to having a fully structured program with tiers of success that employees can work through either individually or as a team. These types of structured safety programs encourage employees to take safety into their own hands and make it a priority in the work they do every day. Empowering employees to take safe practices seriously begins with management. Give employees the autonomy and accountability to build a culture of safety within the workforce. Take notice and reward those employees who maintain clean safety records. Using small rewards such as gift cards to popular retailers such as Crutchfield or The Cheesecake Factory shows the general workforce that management takes notice of employee safety, and appreciate employees who take it upon themselves to empower others to be safe and give them the autonomy to do so. Showing employees that management recognizes employees who contribute to common goals and better the organization as a whole will motivate and engage them in the organizational effort. Remind your workforce that employee safety starts with them- and if they make it a priority people
will take notice.
