The roadside inspection piece of the truck safety puzzle is “tried and true,” so enforcement officials have been reluctant to change it even as the trucking industry continues to voice concerns about ...

As safety experts, the task of dramatically lowering workplace accidents and fatalities comes down to the ability to positively change employee workplace behavior. Changing unsafe behavior, of course, ...

Last year, 2016, was a big year for safety incentive programs. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's newest anti-retaliatory rule, which was made in May 2016, forced many programs to ...

The trick is to motivate proactive safety behavior. Many employers implement safety incentive programs as they seek to recognize and reward employees for practicing safe and healthful work practices.

For years, companies have been implementing safety incentive or recognition programs to motivate employees to act and think safely in the workplace. Proponents of safety incentives say they are an ...

For at least a century, safety incentive programs have often been misunderstood and misused. Many have delivered positive results, but some have produced unintended consequences. Quite often, ...

Financial incentive boosts patient safety reporting by medical trainees Patient safety reporting increased as a result of an academic training program that created a financial incentive for residents ...

Many employers implement safety incentive programs as they seek to recognize and reward employees for practicing safe and healthful work practices. While incentives are popular, they aren’t always ...

Before we discuss how to modernize, we must understand how safety incentives have evolved and what we have learned. Programs of the past had issues, and it all started with simple dangle the carrot ...