e6.2 - Health and safety monitoring

Question 1

Objectives of active monitoring

Answer 1

Check that H and S plans have been implemented

Level of compliance with the organisations systems and procedures

Legislative and technical standards

Ensuring risks are being managed

Reassure workers

Question 2

Objectives of reactive monitoring

Answer 2

To analyse data relating to -

Accidents

Ill-Health

Other loss causing events

Question 3

Reactive monitoring data

Answer 3

Incidents

Accidents

Reportable dangerous occurrences

Absence data

Complaints from employees or public

Number of civil claims against the organisation

Question 4

Limitations of reactive monitoring

Answer 4

Accidents are relatively rare occurrences so might not be a reliable indicator of performance

Variations of performance between periods might be pure chance

Reactive data does not give indications of future events

Problems associated with under reporting giving a false picture of performance

Time off work does not correlate well with severity of injury

Question 5

Strengths of reactive monitoring

Answer 5

Can be used for benchmarking

Can determine trends over time (whether accidents are increasing or decreasing)

Question 6

Performance measures can be…

Answer 6

Objective

Subjective

Qualitative

Quantitative

Question 7

Objective

Answer 7

NOT influenced by judgement, personal feelings or opinions. example is taking a noise measurement with a noise meter

Question 8

Subjective

Answer 8

ARE influenced by judgement, personal feelings and opinions. e.g. asking, ‘is house keeping adequate?’

Question 9

Qualitative

Answer 9

Means that the data is not represented numerically, for example ranking risk as high, medium or low. difficult to use as an accurate measure

Question 10

Quantitative

Answer 10

Use numerical data ti analyse performance, e.g. accident data statistics, fault tree analysis