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Active Monitoring:
Active Monitoring Gathering information before an event, involves inspections, audit and safety survey.
Reactive Monitoring:
Reactive Monitoring Gathering information followed by an event, to find out the reasons for failure in the systems, usually lessons learnt from mistakes.
for example: investigating accidents and incidents, ill health and sickness absence records.
Active Monitoring Methods:
Measure Conformance and Non-conformance with standards e.g.:
Number and quality of risk assessment against plan.
Health and safety training to schedule.
Consultative committee meetings to Schedule.
Workplace inspection to schedule.
Safety Inspection:
A general workplace inspection to ensure legal requirements are met in accordance with standards.
Systematic Inspection
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plant- Machinery and Vehicles,
people-working methods behaviour,
Premises-Workplace environment
Procedure-Safe system of work, permits to work.
Safety Sampling:
Sampling methods to a specific item from a group.
Safety Tours:
Safety tour of the entire organization or department.
Performance Standards:
Even health and safety management activities can also be actively monitored to measure performance standards:
Number and quality of risk assessment carried, covering work activities,
Provision of health and safety training to schedule,
Frequency of took-box talks,
Completion of job safety analyses against targets,
Completion of consultative committee meetings to schedule,
Completion of workplace inspections to schedule,
Completion of safety audits to schedule,
Completion of safety review meetings to schedule.
Arrangements for Active Monitoring:
The type of active monitoring:
A general workplace inspection to ensure legal requirements are met in accordance with standards.
• Sampling methods to a specific item from a group.
• Safety tour of the entire organization or department.
Frequency of Monitoring: is determined by the nature of inspection carried out and the risk level.
Competency of the Inspector: Workplace inspections are carried out by various people
including senior managers, safety practitioners, representatives, specialist or from
enforcement agencies.
Checklist:
• Working environment
• Welfare facilities
• Transport
• Electrical safety
• Machinery safety
• Hazardous substances
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Emergency Arrangements.
• Standard operating procedures / SSoW
• Housekeeping
• Access and egress
Planning action :
• What corrective action required
• Person responsible to close out the action
• Timescale with priorities.
Reactive Monitoring:
Reactive monitoring arrangements include systems to identify and report:
• injuries and work-related ill health
• other losses such as damage to property.
• incidents, including those with the potential to cause injury, ill health or loss.
• hazards and faults.
• weaknesses or omissions in performance standards and systems.
Data collected and reported about several unwanted events, such as
Near misses.
‘• Dangerous occurrences.
• Accidents.
• Lost workdays.
Damaged property.
• Ill health cases .
• Workforce complaints.
• Enforcement actions–number and type.
• Civil claims–number and type.
• Accident cost.
The above data can be used to analyse
Trends–consistent increases or decreases in the number of certain types of events over a period
Patterns–hot-spots of collections of certain types of events.

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