Reporting all injuries, even minor ones, was an important element
of the ROCIP safety program. Our qualitative data showed that all
categories of workers, skilled and unskilled, English and Spanish
speakers, union and non-union, and different trade groups, knew that
they must report all injuries and understood the reasons for it. The GC
offered incentives to both rank-and-file workers and supervisors for
good safety performance. Yet in focus groups and interviews we heard
that the goal was a safe work site, not the under-reporting of injuries,
and that supervisors were penalized for not reporting. We believe this
injury-reporting policy contributed to building a true commitment to
safety instead of encouraging under-reporting to get incentives. It may
also be responsible for the capture of a large number of relatively
minor injury events.