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Diploma Part 1
Unit 1A5
Measuring Health & Safety Performance
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Loss Management Model
Incidents
Workplace precautions
Risk Control Systems (RCSs)
Trend Trend
analyses analyses
Review
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Proactive Strategies
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Proactive Monitoring
‘The key to good proactive monitoring
is the quality of the plans, performance
standards and specifications which
have been established’
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Proactive Monitoring
• Examination of documents
• Examination of records
• Inspections of plant & premises
• Environmental monitoring
• Health surveillance
• Observation of working practices
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Proactive Monitoring
• Audits, inspections, sampling and tours
• Examination of performance against
statistical information from a variety of
sources
• Monitoring of development of, and
compliance with, risk assessments
• Corrective action to prevent accidents
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Reactive Strategies
• Accident statistics
• Ill health records
• Systems failures
• Investigations
• Corrective action to prevent re-occurrence
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Health & Safety Culture
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Discussion
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Aims of Proactive Monitoring
• Inspections & reports of adequate quality
• Identification of common problems and
weaknesses
• Recognition of resource implications
• Validation of risk assessments
• Rectification of previous deficiencies
• Meeting identified training needs
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Proactive Methods
• Audits
• Inspections
• Tours
• Sampling
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Audits
• Systematic measurement & validation of an
organisation’s management of it’s health
and safety programme
• Looks at every aspect of process
• Usually undertaken by someone from
outside the department or organisation
• Can be an expensive process
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Inspections
• Planned
• Check on hazard control and working
practices
• Primarily a visual exercise but talk to staff!
• Statutory inspections e.g. cranes
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Safety Tours
• Unscheduled examination of work area
• Carried out by manager + safety reps. etc.
• Check standards and identify hazards
• Aims to identify need for full inspection
• Safety survey for processes
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Safety sampling
• Workplace divided into routes
• Walked by different people
• Number of hazards identified
• Information from all routes collated
• Identifies areas needing further study
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Sampling exercise
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Reactive monitoring
• Deals with investigation following an
incident
• Accidents
• Injuries
• Ill health
• Property damage
• Weaknesses in performance standards
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Investigation
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Statistical analysis
• Frequency rate
• Incident rate
• Severity rate
• Mean duration rate
• Duration rate
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Frequency rate
• Frequency of accidents per 100,000 hours
worked
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Incident rate
• Accident rate per 1000 employees
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Severity rate
• Average number of days lost per 1000 hours
worked
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Mean duration rate
• Average number of days lost per accident
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Duration rate
• Average number of person hours worked
between accidents
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Weaknesses in statistical analysis
• Problems with definition of accidents
• Use of different multipliers
• Nature of work making comparisons
inappropriate e.g office/workshop
• Seasonal variations
• Under reporting of accidents
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Trainee accident exercise
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