4.4 Review of health and safety performance

What should a performance review consider?

• 1 Only the number of workers
• 2 Audit results and incident data
• 3 Only costs of PPE
• 4 Only legal changes

The output of a review should:

• 1 Be filed and forgotten
• 2 Be shared only with inspectors
• 3 Replace the policy
• 4 Feed into action and development plans

Why should management review performance regularly?

• 1 To judge whether the system is effective and needs change
• 2 To remove the need for monitoring
• 3 To reduce training
• 4 To avoid audits

A performance review is carried out to decide whether the system is:

• 1 Cheap and quick
• 2 Popular and secret
• 3 Old and cheap
• 4 Suitable, adequate and effective

Which of these should a review consider?

• 1 The size of the car park
• 2 The colour of the logo
• 3 Results of inspections, audits and incident data
• 4 The price of the products only

A review should consider actions from:

• 1 Unrelated companies
• 2 Rumours
• 3 Television programmes
• 4 Earlier reviews

Whether objectives were met is considered in a review because it:

• 1 Replaces audit
• 2 Shows whether the policy is being turned into results
• 3 Is not important
• 4 Is required to buy PPE

Absence and sickness figures are considered in a review because they:

• 1 Are always unrelated to work
• 2 Cancel the policy
• 3 Replace the audit
• 4 May show health problems related to work

Complaints from outside the organisation should be:

• 1 Deleted
• 2 Considered in the review
• 3 Passed only to the supplier
• 4 Ignored

The outputs of a review should:

• 1 Replace the policy
• 2 Feed into action and development plans
• 3 Be kept secret from workers
• 4 Be filed and forgotten

A review that produces no actions:

• 1 Proves everything is perfect
• 2 Must be repeated weekly
• 3 Is the best kind
• 4 Has not been a real review

Legal and good practice developments are considered so that:

• 1 The costs rise
• 2 The system can be updated
• 3 The audit is cancelled
• 4 The review is shorter

Opportunities for improvement are identified in the review to support:

• 1 Continuous improvement
• 2 Avoiding audit
• 3 A reduction in training
• 4 Removal of controls

Management should review performance:

• 1 Regularly
• 2 Only after a fatality
• 3 Never
• 4 Only when a law changes

Who is responsible for carrying out the review of performance?

• 1 Competitors
• 2 Customers
• 3 The press
• 4 Management