Wuhan, Hubei, March 3 (Correspondent Zhou Bingxue) — The author saw on a performance reward and penalty table at the "four meetings" of the South Company of CRCC Electrification Bureau Group that, of the safety and quality directors dispatched by the company to its projects, all but one — who received neither reward nor penalty — were granted assessment rewards, with the largest amounting to 6,000 yuan.

 

    On the surface, no leader of any construction unit says safety is unimportant, nor does any leader say he does not attach importance to safety. But when it comes to building a stable safety management team and motivating safety management personnel, many construction units appear rather feeble. Many people are unwilling to engage in safety management work, because safety management has no other awards; once an incident or accident of any size occurs, the safety and quality director bears the brunt of the penalty, and penalties are imposed level by level — a single accident may be penalized four or five times over. The author once heard an expert lecture say, "A mechanism with only negative incentives is a devil's mechanism."

 

    After learning the true feelings of frontline safety and quality management personnel through discussion activities carried out in early 2013, the company, in light of its actual situation, specially revised and formulated an assessment system for dispatched safety personnel, increased the intensity of rewards, and adopted a method combining routine assessment with an annual overall assessment. The annual overall assessment is divided into categories A, B, C and D: those scoring above 90 are Category A and receive a monthly reward of 500 yuan; 80-89 is Category B with a monthly reward of 300 yuan; 70-75 is Category C with a reward of 100 yuan; 60-69 is Category D with neither reward nor penalty; and below 59 is unqualified and subject to a fine.

   

    It is understood that after the company announced the 2013 assessment results for dispatched safety and quality personnel at this year's "four meetings," not only did the dispatched safety and quality management personnel abandon the idea of backing out, but more than 100 attendees also expressed their support. This will certainly play a positive role in building a stable, knowledgeable, professional, specialized, capable and efficient safety and quality management team, as well as in promoting standardized and normalized on-site safety production management and preventing the occurrence of safety and quality accidents.