(a) Following the campaign, the number of accidents may have significantly increased because of a number of factors; these could include that previously very few people were actually aware that they needed to report accidents, so accidents happened, but weren’t reported – resulting in under-reporting.
It may also have been that the campaign was very successful because it now raised people’s awareness and expectations of what will be done now you have encouraged people to report accidents on site.
(b) Four active methods of measuring H&S performance of the organisation could entail:
- – Safety tours – these tours could take place on a regular basis and identify good and poor practice; these practices could then be logged to measure performance by scoring or tracking good and poor practice.
- – Procedures, risk assessments, etc. – measuring the numbers that have been done against numbers required, checking whether they are in date and being reviewed in line with set frequencies, communicated to staff – by measuring awareness or understanding of them.
- – Safety surveys – using a set survey and evaluating strengths and weakness and setting strategy for the future and implementing campaigns and then being able to measure through a survey the effectiveness of this campaign.
- – Benchmarking – comparing your performance to previous years/months, other departments, sites or comparable companies (e.g. from national accident statistics published for your particular sector) to measure your performance in an active manner.
