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illnesses, these employers demonstrate their commitment to maintaining a socially responsible
workplace that values workers.

Performance Standards
To actively monitor health and safety identification of exactly what to monitor and what level of
performance standard is acceptable.

Performance standards are more concerned with physical control of workplace hazard
conditions, for example the standards maintained for the lifting gears, this can be actively
monitored through routine inspection of the lifting gears to ensure that the standards are met.

Even health and safety management activities can also be actively monitored to measure
performance standards:
• Number and quality of risk assessment carried, covering work activities

• Provision of health and safety training to schedule

• Frequency of took-box talks
• Completion of job safety analyses against targets

• Completion of consultative committee meetings to schedule
• Completion of workplace inspections to schedule

• Completion of safety audits to schedule
• Completion of safety review meetings to schedule

All such above mentioned management tasks are expected to take place in the organization, so it
is possible to evaluate whether they are taking place or not and the quality to what extent it is
provided. For example, a standard might be that new workers must be provided with induction
training covering the workplace procedures. Training records can provide information whether
training took place or not, the number of trainings provided and the effective of the training can
be checked. Hence, the performance standards can be actively monitored.

Safety Inspection, Sampling and Tours

Safety Inspection

A system for inspecting workplace precautions is important
in any active monitoring programme. It can form part of the
arrangements for the preventive maintenance of plant and
equipment, legal requirements may also cover. Equipment
in this category includes pressure vessels, lifts, cranes,
chains, ropes, lifting tackle, scaffolds, trench supports, and
local exhaust ventilation. But inspections should include
other workplace precautions, such as those covering the
use of premises, other places of work, and systems of work.

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