Recognition and Sustainability Reporting

As the post-pandemic workplace continues to evolve, certain pressures have emerged around creating and maintaining a strategy of corporate sustainability reporting. A new law from the European Union known as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is expected to impact thousands of US companies (and many more worldwide) that do business in the EU.

The EU law will require audited reporting in four specific areas: employees; employees of a company’s distribution and supply chain partners; customers, and communities, including environmental impact.

Rewards Recognition Network (RRN) recently conducted a market study among incentive and recognition firms to gauge whether or not they see an opportunity to play a role in providing services related to the reporting and management requirements.

QIC was asked to participate in the study. You can find the results of our opinions here, as well as responses from the other industry participants.

Preventable Accidents Occurring Earlier in Tenure

Present-day challenges in the workplace are creating legitimate concerns about an increase in preventable accidents, as businesses try to meet growing demand with a less-than-full complement of staff. National Safety Council’s Safety+Health magazine references one study that bears this out – showing that injuries are occurring much earlier in workers’ job tenure. The study was conducted by researchers from Selective… Read more »

Safety Concerns at All-Time High

Last month the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released estimates of traffic fatalities for 2021.  As reported by NHTSA, last year was a deadly one, in which fatalities reached a 16-year high – a 10.5% increase from the previous year.  This is the largest annual percentage increase in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System’s (FARS)… Read more »