4.1 Active And Reactive Monitoring Flashcards
Nebosh learning outcome 2016
4.1 Outline the principles, purpose and role of active and reactive monitoring
- 1 Active and reactive monitoring
- Active monitoring procedures including the monitoring of performance standards and the systematic inspection of plant and premises
- Role of safety inspections, sampling, surveys and tours and their roles within a monitoring regime
- Factors governing frequency and type of inspection; competence and objectivity of inspector; use of checklists; allocation of responsibilities and priorities for action
- Effective report writing: style, structure, content, emphasis, persuasiveness etc
- Reactive monitoring measures including data on accidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses, ill-health, complaints by workforce and enforcement action.
Explain : Why we measure health and safety performance
(Remember)
You can’t manage what you can’t measure
- The main purpose of measuring health and safety performance is to provide information on the progress and current status of the strategies, processes and activities employed to control health and safety risks
- Effective measurement not only provides information on what the levels are but also why they are at this level, so that corrective action can be taken
In the monitoring of health and safety there are two basic categories of monitoring name them and explain what they do
- Proactive monitoring, ensure that standards and policies are implemented and that hazard controls are working as they should
- Reactive monitoring, involves looking at past events, like accidents, to learn from the mistakes made and to prevent a recurrence
Explain the problem of using accident and ill-health statistics in isolation as a measure of an organisations health and safety performance
- A reward system can lead to under reporting to keep up the appearance of good health and safety
- It is often a matter of chance whether a particular incident causes an injury
- An injury is the particular consequence of an incident and often does not reflect the potential
severity. - People can be absent from work for reasons which are not related to the severity of the incident
- Injury statistics demonstrate outcomes not causes
Active monitoring means:
taking the initiative before things go wrong
This involves routine inspections, tours, sampling surveys and annual audits, checks if you will, to make sure that the standards and policies set, are being implemented and that the controls measures are working.
Identify the essential elements of an inspection report
Essential elements of a report are:
- identification of the organisation, workplace, inspector and date of inspection
- list of observations
- priority or risk level
- actions to be taken
- timescale for completion of the actions
Reactive Monitoring means:
(Measuring Failure) after things go wrong, which involves looking at historical events to learn from mistakes and see what can be put right to prevent it happening again.
Outline the circumstances when a person(s) out-with the organisation would be involved in undertake certain aspects of a safety audit
• engineering surveyors (including manufacturers of the equipment used)
• insurance company personnel:
Statutory inspections (pressure systems such a boilers, lifting equipment, fire certificate checks
• General inspections in connection with the employer’s liability insurance
• Investigating claims connected with accidents
• Liaising with risk management and technical consultants carrying out inspections
• Outside consultants undertaking safety inspections, noise surveys, environmental surveys
• HSE and local authority inspectors undertaking statutory inspections or carrying out accident investigations
Types of inspections
(Remember)
Active monitoring is used as a means of verifying the adequacy of, and the degree of compliance with, the Risk Control Systems that the organisation established.
Name four different types of active monitoring?
- Safety Survey
- Safety Inspection
- Safety Tour
- Safety Sampling
The Safety Survey is usually a detailed assessment of one aspect of an organisation’s SMS e.g. the organisation’s training arrangements.
The Safety Inspection consists of a formal assessment of workplace safety, and the identification of hazardous conditions or practices, for subsequent remedial action. (using a checklist)
The Safety Tour addresses the ‘people’ aspects of workplace safety, and by discussions with a range of staff, establishes their familiarity with safety procedures and requirements. Used as a means of demonstrating management commitment to safety A questionnaire is frequently used.
Safety sampling is a helpful technique that helps organisation’s to concentrate on one particular area or subject at a time. A specific area is chosen with a checklist drawn up to facilitate the inspection.
(RCSs)
Effective risk control is founded on an effective health and safety management system that comprises three levels of control.
Explain each of these levels
Level 3–effective workplace precautions provided and maintained to prevent harm to people who are exposed to the risks
Level 2–risk control systems (RCSs): the basis for ensuring that adequate workplace precautions are provided and maintained
Level 1–the key elements of the health and safety management system: the management arrangements (including plans and objectives) necessary to organize, plan, control and monitor the design and implementation of RCSs.
The health and safety culture must be positive to support each level.
