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Practices to Motivate Safe Behaviors with Highway Construction and Maintenance Crews

项目名称：	Practices to Motivate Safe Behaviors with Highway Construction and Maintenance Crews
摘要：	Highway construction and maintenance is a uniquely hazardous industry. In 2019, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) incident data reported the recordable injury rate was 21% higher for highway construction and maintenance than for general construction. Safety programs and policies have been created to seek improvement in safety performance. A common strategy to improve safety outcomes is the use of incentives and disincentives to motivate workers to perform safe behaviors. OSHA states that “incentive programs can be an important tool to promote workplace safety and health.” Examples of such incentive programs include rewarding workers for reporting near-misses or hazards and encouraging the use of safety committees. Conversely, disincentive strategies can be used to discourage unsafe behaviors such as disciplinary actions for unsafe behaviors. Most safety incentive programs are either injury/illness/incident-based or behavior-based incentive programs. The former received some restrictions and clarification from OSHA stating that injury/illness/incident-based are allowable assuming there are no ramifications for reporting incidents. A recent study found that safety incentive programs have been effective at reducing experience modification ratings; lost-time workday incidents; and days away, job restrictions, or transfers. The same study also found that workers have a positive perception of safety incentive programs and believe they do improve safety outcomes. The private construction sector has deployed incentive and disincentive programs with regularity. However, state departments of transportation (DOTs) have unique limitations on their abilities to financially incentivize safe actions or use corrective actions as disincentives for unsafe actions. While difficult, some state DOTs have found unique approaches to institute incentives, such as office-based grants, awards, and more. The objective of this synthesis is to document state DOT practices regarding safety incentive and disincentive programs for highway construction and maintenance crews, related motivational techniques, and written policies or training to implement these programs. Information to be gathered includes (but is not limited to): (1) Formal safety incentive or disincentive programs; (2) Informal safety incentive or disincentive programs; (3) Other safety motivational approaches; (4) Strategies for implementation; (5) Training requirements; and (6) Program policies and procedures. Information will be collected through a literature review, a survey of state DOTs, and follow-up interviews with selected agencies for the development of case examples. Information gaps and suggestions for research to address those gaps will be identified.
状态：	Active
资金：	45000
资助组织：	National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis<==>American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)<==>Federal Highway Administration
项目负责人：	Harwood, Leslie C
开始时间：	20210524
主题领域：	Construction；Highways；Maintenance and Preservation；Safety and Human Factors