40 Years of Safety Incentives and Behavior Change for World's Largest Companies

For over 40 years, the Bill Sims Company has designed and implemented safety incentive reward and recognition systems for Fortune 500 Companies.  Bill Sims Company’s team of behavioral experts understands every aspect of behavior change and the design of customized tools for accelerating organizational change.

Bill Sims was a pioneer in designing reward and recognition systems for “leading indicators” in safety - challenging the incentive industry’s “lagging indicator” approach that contributed to injury hiding and employee disengagement.  Bill Sims has revolutionized safety reward and recognition practices and his clients have achieved unprecedented improvements in injury reduction.

Bill Sims has a proven methodology for equipping front line supervisors and managers with the tools they need to change behavior on a sustainable basis. SmartCard, a patented Bill Sims process, customizes rewards and recognition programs to accelerate the results of safety culture change initiatives.

Many behavior-based safety initiatives fail because leaders, managers and supervisors do not deliver positive reinforcement and recognition for employee involvement, performing observations, and safe work behaviors.  Bill Sims Company provides management and supervision with a learning aid - The SmartCard System.

All Recognition Programs Are Not The Same

On the surface, all recognition programs look alike. And yes, when you ask them, employees always say, "just give me the cash." But look closer, and you'll see why in the long run, cash isn't king. In fact, Goodyear found that merchandise recognitions outperformed cash by 2-to-1. Recent surveys show 94% of all employees prefer a tax-free gift in favor of taxable cash or gift certificates. And Toyota found that it costs $192 to award an employee $100 in cash or Sears Gift Certificates. That's over $92 lost to taxes!

And a far more important question than the tax issue is: Did your recognition or safety incentive program work? Did it cut your injuries, without injury hiding? Did it boost your sales? Did it produce money-saving suggestions? Are you really getting enough bang for your recognition buck? Too often, managers just shrug their shoulders when asked these questions.

We've helped companies just like yours keep their profits from going up in smoke, and add millions of dollars to their bottom line. We can show you how to design a tax-free recognition program that will produce the results you want, and we'll make program administration a breeze. To reassure you that we can help your organization achieve its goals, please feel free to call some of our clients and ask how we have helped them.

Areas of Expertise

Safety Incentives and Safety Behavior Change

Whether you are a large company or a small one in search of safety incentive solutions, you've come to the right place. We began in the 1960's helping companies improve safety performance with our comprehensive, tax free safety incentive strategies. Over 1,000 firms have successfully used our solutions to change behavior. Most important is the fact that our incentive solution is uniquely behavior based, unlike many other program which encourage injury hiding and under reporting. While you may have typed "safety incentives" into the search engine, in truth, most managers are not looking for safety poker, bingo, scratchoffs, jackpots or other gimmicks, but instead desire sustained safety behavior change. Our safety incentive approaches have helped many companies reduce injuries 90% or more, saving millions in the process--all without injury hiding.

Wellness Incentive Solutions
Our Tax Free Wellness Incentive solutions will you help you change health behaviors leading to long term lower health-care costs. Over 75% of all wellness programs realize the need for wellness incentives, however, 4 out of 5 fail to reach the most important medium and high risk employees who drive 73% of your health care costs. These ineffective "one size fits all" approaches to wellness incentives fail to make a difference. In surveys done by Bill Sims and Welcoa (a leading wellness organization) the two most popular wellness incentives are cash and health-care discounts. Oddly enough, the research also shows them to be the least effective. Our tax free programs such as Healthpoints wellness incentive solutions are easy on your budget and your time.

Morale & Teamwork
Are you struggling with lackluster performers, high turnover, or poor employee satisfaction scores? Our Smartcard behavior based recognitionTM solution will help your recognize day in/day out your above and beyond performers. In a study by Watson Wyatt, employee recognition is the number one reason that top companies outdistance their competitors. Eighty years of research have proven that it isn't salary increases or better benefits that drive superior performance. These expensive solutions are soon forgotten and become expected. Learn how our positive reinforcement solutions will streamline your recognition strategies.

Lean/Bright Ideas
Looking for a Bright Idea Suggestion Incentive program or Lean Suggestion Scheme? 9 out of 10 suggestion programs fail within 2 years due to common beginner's mistakes. Learn how to avoid these pitfalls with our Lean Bright Idea Suggestion Incentive system. It's documented $11 million in savings in 18 months for Siemens, $2.2 million for the Department of energy in 2 years. The best part? All the administration is done by us. Leaving you more time to focus on innovation and cost savings. Order our free DVD today Bright Idea Suggestion Schemes and Employee Suggestion programs.