Safety incentive programs found to compromise safety performance

This may interest you. A paper from Jimmie Hinze, Matthew Hallowell and Kevin Bauds looked at the evidence behind a range of safety strategies and supplemented this with an expert panel.

Lots to unpack in this paper, so I’ll cover that in a future summary, but one thing of interest was around the use of safety incentives.

Findings in the images – noting that “Safety performance is compromised by the implementation of safety incentives, that is, projects that implemented safety incentives had higher injury rates than those projects that did not implement safety incentives”.

Note: This isn’t to argue for or against safety incentives, nor their potential merits, limitations and/or boundary conditions; it’s just one dataset that you may find relevant. You also need to consider limitations of the methodology.

Source: Hinze, J., Hallowell, M., & Baud, K. (2013). Construction-safety best practices and relationships to safety performance. Journal of construction engineering and management, 139(10), 04013006.

Study link: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000751

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