Scratch a safety professional and you’ll find an opinion on safety incentives underneath. The difficult part is coming up with consistent principles, definitions or guidelines upon which to base safety incentive and recognition approaches, and knowing how they can add value to existing safety systems.

So you’re considering buying software to help you manage your health and safety programs, and OH&S management system. Good idea...but where do you start? For many safety practitioners, the daily demand of managing many different types of data and information is becoming increasingly challenging. It’s been said that the safety field is information-rich, but how do you make sense of all that information? And better still, how does all that safety data give you opportunities to improve the way in which your safety system is managed?

Regardless of your incentives philosophy, innovation triggers success

Over the past two decades, a great deal of research and discussion has centered on safety incentives and both the positive and negative impacts of various approaches. While many organizations use prizes and awards for no lost-time injuries, a definitive correlation between successful safety performance and incentive awards has still not been proven, although organizations that use them infer a connection.