Here’s a common thing that contractors deal with every day. You’ve completed a prequalification questionnaire for a potential new client. Typically, you are answering a WORD form, maybe a formatted pdf, or more and more frequently, an online questionnaire ranging from 2 to 50 screens and hundreds of individual data fields. Of all this content, do you know what clients actually look at? If you suspect that they don’t look at all the data, you’d be right. Particularly with online platforms, lots of information is being requested, but little of it is consistently looked at.  

User analytics over nearly two decades show that three focus areas get more client attention than all the other categories combined. Roughly, 60% of client page views are in these three areas:

• Incidents, workplace injuries
• Workers Compensation performance, and
• Regulatory compliance

Let’s unpack each of these.

First, what’s meant by incident experience. Here we’re talking specifically about incident frequenc...

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