Leadership asks staff to minimize filed incident counts so an upcoming safety award application looks stronger. What integrity principle should the risk manager defend?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Cooking the incident numbers for a trophy is how you win a plaque and lose the plot. Awards mean nothing if people are scared to report. Protect the pipeline of honest filings—even when the dashboard looks less shiny.
Full Explanation
Safety performance metrics are only useful when reporting is complete and culturally supported. Pressuring staff to suppress filings for award optics corrupts leading and lagging indicators, hides hazards, and damages trust. Risk managers should reject metrics gaming, brief leadership on the integrity risk, and evaluate award criteria that reward strong systems and transparent reporting rather than artificially low counts.