When Do Safety Trinkets Improve Behaviour?
Baseball caps, key chains, coffee mugs and pens are often used to promote personal safety and health. Do these safety trinkets work? Do they impact safety-related behaviour? Methods of delivering safety trinkets vary widely. For some companies, a low injury record calls for delivery of safety trinkets throughout a work force. Sometimes trinkets are given to individuals after a particular safety-related behaviour, such as completing a behavioural observation, removing a safety hazard, or reporting a near miss. In other situations, safety trinkets are not contingent on any safety-related outcome or behaviour, but are distributed to everyone as an awareness booster.
