• Plan
• Do
• Check
• Act

Check

Monitoring and reporting are important parts of health and safety arrangements. Management systems allow organisations to receive both specific (eg incident-led) and routine reports on the performance of health and safety policy.

• Measuring performance
  • Make sure that your plans have been implemented - 'paperwork' on its own is not a good performance measure
  • Assess how well the risks are being controlled and if you are achieving your aims. In some circumstances formal audits may be useful  
• Investigating accidents and incidents
  • Investigate the causes of accidents, incidents or near misses