Monitoring and Review Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of accident investigation in health and safety management?
Answer: To identify the immediate and underlying causes of the accident in order to prevent recurrence
The primary purpose of accident investigation is to identify what happened, why it happened (immediate and root causes), and what actions are needed to prevent a similar event from occurring again. It is not about allocating blame, which can actually hinder effective investigation by discouraging honest reporting.
Which of the following is an example of a KPI used as a leading indicator in construction safety?
Answer: Percentage of workers who received site-specific induction training before starting work
The percentage of workers receiving site-specific induction before starting work is a leading indicator — it measures a proactive safety action (training delivery) that should help prevent incidents. It provides real-time information about safety effort. The other options all measure outcomes of incidents that have already occurred.
In an HSG65 monitoring framework, what does 'Plan-Do-Check-Act' represent?
Answer: A continuous improvement cycle for managing health and safety — planning controls, implementing them, checking their effectiveness, and acting on the findings
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) is the continuous improvement cycle in HSG65 (Managing for Health and Safety). Plan involves setting objectives and procedures, Do involves implementing them, Check involves measuring and monitoring performance, and Act involves reviewing and improving based on what was found.
What is the role of management review in the health and safety monitoring process?
Answer: Senior management periodically reviews the health and safety management system to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness, and to make strategic decisions about improvements
Management review is a top-level process where senior management evaluates the overall performance of the health and safety management system. They consider audit findings, monitoring data, incident trends, changing circumstances, and stakeholder feedback to make strategic decisions about policy direction, resource allocation, and system improvements.
What type of reactive monitoring involves tracking the number and nature of enforcement actions taken by regulators against the organisation?
Answer: Enforcement action monitoring
Monitoring enforcement actions (improvement notices, prohibition notices, prosecutions, fees for intervention) is a form of reactive monitoring. These actions indicate that the regulator found standards to be inadequate. Tracking them reveals systemic weaknesses and the effectiveness of compliance efforts.
Why is it considered poor practice to rely solely on accident statistics (lagging indicators) to measure safety performance?
Answer: Because low accident rates may mask underlying risks and give false assurance — the absence of accidents does not mean the absence of hazards, and lagging data only identifies problems after harm has occurred
Relying solely on accident statistics is problematic because a low rate may reflect luck rather than good management. Significant hazards may exist without having yet caused an incident. Lagging data is also influenced by under-reporting, small workforce size, and cannot drive proactive improvement. A balanced approach using both leading and lagging indicators is needed.