Monitoring
What is Monitoring?

Monitoring is a core element of managing safety. It allows managers to test what is actually happening on the ground against what should be happening.  Monitoring can be done in a number of ways which together provide the necessary assurance to managers that the right things are happening. Examples include visits; inspections; assurance monitoring; analysis of reports, documentation and records; accident, ill-health and incident reporting and investigation; reviews etc.

 

The monitoring arrangements should reflect levels of risk arising from the work activities present at all sites and should give priority to those areas where monitoring shall add most benefit to the management and control of risk. The amount of monitoring that needs to be done i.e. the frequency and depth of measurement should depend on the level of risk with the highest risks having the greatest monitoring activity compared to areas of low risk. In some cases the monitoring arrangements will be defined by regulation.