Safety incentive for labor workers in state-owned mine enterprises in China

In recent years, the number of labor workers in state-owned mine enterprises continues to rise. How to improve the safety incentive for labor workers in state-owned mine enterprises to reduce safety accidents caused by labor workers has become an urgent safety problem for enterprises. Based on the special nature of state-owned mine enterprises and the characteristics of labor workers, the problems of safety incentive for labor workers were elaborated in detail. Based on the implications from classic motivation theory, four kinds of safety incentives were put forward from the main characteristics of incentive subject and object, including the pay incentive mechanism with the need as the core, the organization incentive mechanism with the safety system as the core, the safety training and promotion incentive with self-realization as the core, the culture incentive mechanism with the safety as the core. Finally, four principles of implement of the incentive mechanisms were proposed, such as, the combination of reward and punishment, the combination of material incentives and spirit incentives, the combination of positive incentives and negative incentives, and just and equitable principles. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology(Beijing), McGill University and University of Wollongong.