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Fall of 2011 OSHA regulations begin penalizing incentives or disincentives that use lagging indicators. Since most programs had two main components: 1) spot rewards, and 2) rewards for no injuries; the one item left standing is spot rewards which often wasn’t compelling enough at the time to warrant the initiatives. Spot rewards in the classic example–where safety manager walks up to employee and hands gift card for wearing of safety glasses–will always present an....