The first point is also VERY important for Workers’ Compensation classifications – there are audits at any time and “revised” jobs that are still shown as “clerical” (the least expensive category!), for example, can bring fines and penalties.

From experience, the third is perhaps the hardest and not often done right. A client recently tried to include safety results in bonus calculations and we had to have a conversation about the law of unintended consequences. Non-reporting of what might seem like minor injuries is already a problem – with the “wrong” incentives, it could become rampant and dangerous.