Health & Safety Monitoring Flashcards
What are the objectives of active monitoring?
The objective of active monitoring is to check that the H&S plans have been implemented and to monitor the extent of compliance with:
The organisations systems and procedures
Legislation and technical standards.
By identifying non-compliance, steps can be taken to ensure that any weaknesses are dealt with, so maintaining the adequacy of the H&S plans, and helping to avoid any incidents.
What are the objectives of reactive monitoring?
The objective is to analyse data relating to:
Accidents
Ill-Health situations
Other loss-causing events
Any other factors that degrade the system
It is better to identify, and deal with, any potential problems by means of active monitoring, rather than waiting for an event to happen to highlight any shortcomings in the systems.
What are the limitations of accident and ill-health data as a performance measure?
Accidents should be rare occurrences; this means that there are not many cases to count, and the numbers may not be regarded as statistically significant.
Variations from year to year might be due to pure chance rather than any accident reduction measures that have been introduced.
Accident statistics tend to reflect the results of actions which were taken some time ago, so there is not a rapid cause and effect situation.
Explain the distinctions between objective and subjective
Objective means that it is detached from personal judgement.
Subjective means that is depends on someone’s opinion, judgement, bias or discretion.
Explain the distinctions between Qualitative and Quantitative
Qualitative means that the data is not represented numerically
Quantitative means that the data describes numbers
