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Reactive Monitoring

Failures in risk control also need to be measured (reactive monitoring), to provide opportunities
for organisations to check performance, learn from failures and improve the health and safety
management system.

Reactive monitoring arrangements include systems to
identify and report:

• injuries and work-related ill health

• other losses such as damage to property.

• incidents, including those with the potential to cause
injury, ill health or loss.

• hazards and faults

• weaknesses or omissions in performance standards and
systems.

Lagging or reactive safety performance indicators measure events that have already occurred.
They are also referred to as ‘outcome-based SPIs’ and are normally (but not always) the negative
outcomes the organization is aiming to avoid.

Lagging safety performance indicators help the organization understand what has happened in
the past and are useful for long-term trending. They can be used as a high-level indicator or as a
sign of specific occurrence types or locations, such as ‘types of accidents per job-role type’ or
‘specific incident types by location or region’

Statistics

Data collected and reported about several unwanted events, such as

• Near misses
• Dangerous occurrences
• Accidents
• Lost workdays
• Damaged property
• Ill health cases
• Workforce complaints
• Enforcement actions–number and type
• Civil claims–number and type
• Accident costs

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