Interpretation

OHSAS 18001
4.5.1
Performance Measurement
& Monitoring
 Performance Measurement & Monitoring

4.5.1 Performance Measurement and Monitoring

4.5.2 Accidents, Incidents, Non-conformances and
Corrective and Preventive Action
4.5.3 Records and Records Management
4.5.4 Audits
4.5.1 Performance Measurement and Monitoring
 The organisation must institute and maintain procedures for regularly
monitoring and measuring OH&S performance. These procedures must
comprise the following:
 Qualitative and quantitative measurements based on the
organisation's requirements
 Monitoring the extent to which the organisation's OH&S objectives
are being achieved
 Proactive performance measurements that monitor conformance
with the OH&S management programme, the criteria for operational
sequences, and the prevailing laws and regulations
  Reactive performance measurements for monitoring accidents,
illneses, incidents (including near-accidents) and other evidence of
negative OH&S performance
 Recording of the data and results of the monitoring and
measurements to the extent that they can facilitate the future
analysis of correction and preventive actions.
 If certain instruments are required for measuring and monitoring
performance, the organisation must institute and maintain procedures
for calibrating and servicing the instruments. It must retain verification
of these calibration and servicing activities.
Bases

Procedure for monitoring and measuring

OH&S performance

Both qualitative and quantitative

measurements

Monitoring conformance with the

objectives

Proactive performance
measurements
Reactive performance measurements
 Measurement and Monitoring

Check conformance with the ...

… operational
sequences

Measure and monitor

through, e.g.: ... statutes and
regulations

 Workplace inspections
 Equipment checks
 Reporting unsafe situations … OH&S
 Benchmarking programmes
 Measurement and Monitoring

Analyse ... ... accidents

... illness,
occupational
illness
Measure and monitor
through, e.g.: ... near-accidents
 Statistics

 Accident analyses
... property
damage
 Measurement and Monitoring

 Take special note of injury due, for example, to:

 Presence of gases, vibrating tools

 Noise, extreme temperatures

 Light, monotonous activities

 Handling hazardous materials etc.

Measurement and Monitoring

If the organisation uses measuring

instruments for monitoring, it must have a
procedure for:
 Calibration
 Calibration cycles

The organisation must retain calibration records.

 Equipment

 Gas
 Noise
 Radiation
 Vibration
 Temperature etc.