Monitoring and measuring health and safety standard

The University monitors health and safety performance to be sure that the operational practice lives up to its plans. It supports the 'no surprises' approach. This standard sets out the University’s expectations, and gives assurances that the ‘on the ground’ arrangements are effective and continuously improving.

All staff members and students at the University.

To provide the basis for all faculties, schools, departments and services to regularly monitor and review their health and safety activities to identify objectives, assess risks, implement control measures and to check progress.

Inspection

1. Each school/department and service is to be inspected using an approved checklist to ensure they meet expected health and safety standards every twelve months.

2. High risk areas are to be checked every six months.

Review

3. The health and safety performance of each faculty and service division is to be reviewed once a year.

4. Findings are to be recorded in the faculty/service division risk register.

5. The self-assessment performance questionnaire provided by the Health, Safety and Wellbeing service must be completed by each school/ service and returned by November each year.

6. All high risk areas are to be identified in the annual plan and corrective action is to be taken.

7. The Health, Safety and Wellbeing service is to review progress against agreed plans.

Audit

8. The Health, Safety and Wellbeing service is to provide every faculty/service division with an audit within a three-year period.

Local benchmarking

9. Trends in accidents and near misses are to be analysed at a local level and then presented four times a year at faculty/ service division health and safety committee, and at the University health, safety and wellbeing committee.

University benchmarking

10. Once a year the Health, Safety and Wellbeing service are to analyse the accident / incident information from USHA (the Universities Safety and Health Association) and ‘Group of Eight’ for benchmarking, comparison, and trend analysis across the sector.

Records

11. Areas records are to be kept of all monitoring activity for at least three years.

The following definitions apply to this document:

Staff member refers to an individual employed by the University on a full or part-time basis.

University means the University of Auckland and includes all subsidiaries.

Health and safety policy

Inspection checklists

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Reviewing, monitoring and measuring

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Version: 1.0
Last Updated: Dec 2019
Next Review: Dec 2022
Owner: hsw@auckland.ac.nz
Approver: Associate Director, Health Safety & Wellbeing