Active and Reactive Monitoring 4.1

Question 1

Define ‘Active’ monitoring

Answer 1

‘ACTIVELY’ provides the opportunity to monitor standards and provide feedback before an accident

Question 2

Define ‘REACTIVE’ monitoring

Answer 2

Focuses on what has happened and provides opportunity to learn from mistakes that have already occurred

Question 3

An example of active monitoring is…

Answer 3

• workplace tours
• safety sampling
• safety tours

Question 4

Examples of reactive monitoring are…

Answer 4

• incident investigations
• near misses
• ill health
• enforcement action

Question 5

Outline what an inspection entails

Answer 5

• walking around workplace identifying hazards, providing recommendations to prevent accidents

Question 6

What is sampling?

Answer 6

Part of a group/area is checked then findings are indicative of workplace

Question 7

A safety tour is…

Answer 7

a walk around a workplace on a pre determined route to identify hazards. Noticeable way of showing management commitment

Question 8

Name three positives of using checklists

Answer 8

• immediate recording of findings
• consistent approach
• reduces likelihood of areas being missed
• easy to compare
• easy to adapt

Question 9

Three negatives of using checklists

Answer 9

• User may become over reliant
• Other risks/hazards may go unnoticed
• User could become complacent and not even go to the work place
• can be too constricted

Question 10

Define ‘Accident rate’

Answer 10

Collation of info on the number of accidents that can be used to calculate a variety of accident ratios

Question 11

How is the incident rate calculated?

Answer 11

no accidents in period/average no of employees in period x 1000

Question 12

How do you calculate frequency?

Answer 12

no of accidents in period/total hours worked in period x100,000

Question 13

How is severity rate calculated?

Answer 13

total days lost due to accidents/total hours worked during period x 100,000

Question 14

What are the advantages of accident rates?

Answer 14

• easy to collect
• easily used for benchmarking
• easily grasped
• easy to identify trends

Question 15

What are the disadvantages of using accident rates?

Answer 15

• can be a very negative measure
• random in nature due to infrequency of accidents
• could lead to suppression of accidents if bonus are based on accident free days
• benchmarking can be different between organisations

Question 16

Define ‘near miss’

Answer 16

a near miss is an unplanned, undesired event that under different circumstances could have resulted in harm/damage

Question 17

Define ‘Dangerous occurrence’

Answer 17

A dangerous occurrence are events that with differed inputs could have resulted in a major incident reportable under RIDDOR

Question 18

Define ‘Ill Health’

Answer 18

Ill Health is an illness that has been developed as a result of exposure in the workplace - ie asbestosis from breathing in asbestos fibres.

Question 19

Define ‘Leading’ indicators

Answer 19

Active monitoring - A leading indicator gives direction of where an organisation is heading, the current performance

Question 20

Define ‘Lagging’ Indicators

Answer 20

Reactive monitoring - A lagging indicator tracks behind current performance, shows where the organisation has been