Evaluation of Safety Performance
1. Evaluation of Safety Performance
Can safety performance be assessed and evaluated? If so, how?
Are there any benefits and issues associated with the assessment and evaluation of Health & Safety performance?
Theory
The HSE want the assessing of health and safety performance to be of equivalent importance to the measurement of financial, production or service delivery management. HSE ask companies to follow the HSG 65 procedure (fig1).
This diagram highlights where the evaluating and reviewing fits in the overall health and safety management system. The main reason for the evaluating of health and safety performance is to provide information on the progress and current status of the strategies, processes and activities used by the construction organisations to control risks to health and safety.
The construction organisation must provide information on how the health and safety management system operates in practice. It is importance to identify areas where remedial action is required. The organisational should provide a foundation for continual improvement and deliver feedback on the current system.
H&S Measurement
HSE state that effective performance measurement provides information on the level of performance and why the performance is at that level. Companies can gather information through:
• Direct observation of conditions and of peoples’ behaviour.
• Talking to people to elicit facts and their experiences as well as gauging their views and opinions.
• Examining written reports, documents and records.
OSHA follows three similar methods for assessing construction safety and health program effectiveness which are:
• Checking documentation of activity;
• Interviewing employees at all levels for knowledge, awareness, and perceptions; and
• Reviewing site conditions and, where hazards are found, finding the weaknesses in management systems that allowed the hazards to occur or to be "uncontrolled."
Health and
Can safety performance be assessed and evaluated? If so, how?
Are there any benefits and issues associated with the assessment and evaluation of Health & Safety performance?
Theory
The HSE want the assessing of health and safety performance to be of equivalent importance to the measurement of financial, production or service delivery management. HSE ask companies to follow the HSG 65 procedure (fig1).
This diagram highlights where the evaluating and reviewing fits in the overall health and safety management system. The main reason for the evaluating of health and safety performance is to provide information on the progress and current status of the strategies, processes and activities used by the construction organisations to control risks to health and safety.
The construction organisation must provide information on how the health and safety management system operates in practice. It is importance to identify areas where remedial action is required. The organisational should provide a foundation for continual improvement and deliver feedback on the current system.
H&S Measurement
HSE state that effective performance measurement provides information on the level of performance and why the performance is at that level. Companies can gather information through:
• Direct observation of conditions and of peoples’ behaviour.
• Talking to people to elicit facts and their experiences as well as gauging their views and opinions.
• Examining written reports, documents and records.
OSHA follows three similar methods for assessing construction safety and health program effectiveness which are:
• Checking documentation of activity;
• Interviewing employees at all levels for knowledge, awareness, and perceptions; and
• Reviewing site conditions and, where hazards are found, finding the weaknesses in management systems that allowed the hazards to occur or to be "uncontrolled."
Health and