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Good morning all,

If you want to evaluate someone on their attention to safety details it
has to be in their job description to start.  Then it has to be reinforced
throughout the year.  Positive reinforcement is better than punishing
someone for poor safety performance.  But, if it's not in the job
description to start you can't really review their performance.

You need to involve faculty or other employees in the effort.  Training
and awareness of safety policies are key.  Have faculty or thier employees
participate in some sort of competition for example: "Safest Lab of the
Quarter" all get lunch or some other reward.  "Best Safety poster". 
Possibilities are endless.  Incentive programs only work for a short while
unless the energy is there to keep them going.  Once safety becomes part
of the culture incentives may be less important.

Jo Anna Shimek, CIH CSP
University of Illinois at Chicago


On Thu, July 9, 2009 8:02 am, Ed Miller wrote:
> Hi Suzanne and All,
>   I would be interested in this too especially for the university/college
> setting.  Currently we have no component of our faculty evaluations
> related to safety but are considering recommending one in order to
> improve accountability and concern for duty of care.
> Ed
>
>
> On Thu, July 9, 2009 8:18 am, Suzanne Hamm wrote:
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>>
>> Would like to hear how some of you handle employee reveiws in regards to
>> safety. I know this is a touchy subject because you don't want to
>> "punish"
>> someone which in turn can result in under-reporting.
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