PAT-ON-BACK

Safety Tip #7 in the series:
SIMPLY SMART SAFETY
on a shoestring budget

  ◊  PREVENTION    ◊  PURPOSE
  ◊  PREPARATION    ◊  PEOPLE
   ◊  PROBLEMS   ♦  PAT-ON-BACK
  ◊  PLAN    ◊  PROGRESS
  ◊  PEN-TO-PAPER    ◊  PRO-ACTIVE

The purpose of this series is to give struggling-but-eager SHE professionals and practitioners, who are working for financially-constrained companies, pointers on how to get the safety awareness message across to both management and workers, on a shoestring budget.

Today's topic, PAT-ON-BACK, addresses the importance of
RECOGNITION and ENCOURAGEMENT 

The RECOGNITION TECHNIQUE

• time (minimal)
• effort (minimal)
• mind-set change (varies depending on individual)
• R 0.00 (i.e. zero, nil, nada)

• STOP the following:
  • fault-finding
  • punishment
• START looking for AND find:
  • the good
  • what's right
  • the person/team responsible for it
• DEVELOP the habit of looking for opportunities to say WELL DONE and THANK YOU - preferably 3 times a day

• GOOD BEHAVIOUR is effectively & powerfully REINFORCED and ENCOURAGED!

NON-NEGOTIABLE:

• DON'T FAKE IT!
• Be sincere (people see through pretense very quickly)