4.2 Active and reactive monitoring

Inspections and safety tours are examples of:

• 1 Lagging indicators
• 2 Reactive monitoring
• 3 Active monitoring
• 4 Auditing

A lagging indicator is:

• 1 Proportion of actions closed on time
• 2 Number of inspections done
• 3 Number of training sessions
• 4 Injury rates

Reactive monitoring includes:

• 1 Planned inspections
• 2 Checklist audits only
• 3 Safety tours
• 4 Incident data and investigations

Active monitoring checks that controls are working:

• 1 Only at the end of the year
• 2 Only after an incident
• 3 Before anything goes wrong
• 4 Only at audit

Which of these is an example of active monitoring?

• 1 An absence record
• 2 A planned workplace inspection
• 3 A fatal accident report
• 4 A claim for compensation

Which of these is an example of reactive monitoring?

• 1 A planned inspection
• 2 Safety tours
• 3 Air sampling for dust
• 4 Investigating an injury that has happened

A leading indicator measures:

• 1 Injury rates
• 2 Days lost
• 3 Preventive effort such as inspections done
• 4 Compensation paid

Which of these describes a lagging indicator?

• 1 A measure of training completed
• 2 A measure of harm that has already occurred
• 3 A measure of actions closed on time
• 4 A measure of inspections done

A useful leading indicator is:

• 1 The cost of compensation
• 2 The percentage of actions closed on time
• 3 The days lost last year
• 4 The number of fatalities

Active monitoring is most useful when it is carried out:

• 1 Once, by anyone
• 2 Regularly by competent and objective people using checklists
• 3 Only after incidents
• 4 Only by external staff

Which is a limitation of relying only on reactive monitoring?

• 1 It is too cheap
• 2 It prevents all incidents
• 3 It comes after the harm has occurred
• 4 It detects hazards before harm

Sampling such as noise measurement is an example of:

• 1 A legal prosecution
• 2 An audit of the policy
• 3 Active monitoring
• 4 Reactive monitoring

Why should an organisation learn from events that went well?

• 1 They are never useful
• 2 They prove no monitoring is needed
• 3 They can show good practice to repeat
• 4 They replace audits

Ill health data is an example of:

• 1 Elimination
• 2 Reactive monitoring
• 3 Substitution
• 4 Active monitoring

Which statement about monitoring is correct?

• 1 Monitoring is not needed if there are no accidents
• 2 Only leading measures are needed
• 3 Only lagging measures are needed
• 4 Good monitoring uses leading and lagging measures together