Martin Depending on how your company is structured maybe consider having a Floating Trophy for the best team or site. Possibly run it as a bi-annual or annual competition.

I wouldn't be concerned with this specifically, I know companies where an element of safety performance forms part of the annual bonuses scorecard and it works well. I know of a couple companies where it doesn’t work so well and manages treat it as a numbers game. Done well, it is quite powerful. You need to select the criteria cleverly and accept that what you choose will direct actions / behaviours (but this can be a positive!). In your example of audit scores, this does work well, but again comes down to the weighting of the different elements within the audit. A smart audit will not be "beatable" by managers adopting a "numbers game" attitude.

Thank you all for your comments; I will have to consider more carefully; our teams are quite mobile, therefore indinvidual team scores may be the way to go. We do post performance tables for one facet of the company perhaps We should post these for the whole company. From that we could issue Quaterly trophies and meal vouchers.