By Howard A. Mavity
For several years, we have encouraged employers to move away from safety-management programs which primarily track the program’s effectiveness based upon recordable injuries, and which utilize monetary-incentive programs based on the number of recordable workplace injuries.
Our principal reason for discouraging such programs is that recordable incidents focus on “lagging” indicators, may not identify causes, and may be affected by the capriciousness of timing and “bad luck.”
But employers now have another reason to increasingly shift away from programs primarily driven by recordables. Even before the current Administration took office, its leaders questioned the accuracy of employer record keeping and asserted that employees under report workplace injuries in order to participate in safety incentive programs, or as a result of pressure imposed upon them by employers. Read more…
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