OEAP – SAPOE Combined Conference March 2016 Kendal The functions of Monitoring In Adventure Activities Andy Lavin, Niall Leyden, Marcus Bailie
The legal overview (Health and Safety legislation) HASAWA Section 2(2): provide information, instruction, training, and supervision as necessary …….. MHSWR Reg 5: appropriate arrangements must be made for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring, and review of preventative and protective measures. “From time to time” By monitoring we mean field monitoring not record monitoring.
Competence Selection Induction Validation Deployment Monitoring Further training and experience
Why monitor ? To ensure that staff are doing what they should To ensure staff are doing it as they should To ensure management knows what is really happening To provide management with confidence To reassure staff that what they are doing is important
Types of monitoring Working along side Walking the floor Dedicated monitoring Validation Revalidation
Evidence of Monitoring None Entry in a diary – who, what when Record outcomes and any further training etc. in their personnel file Statement of Competence Full chapter and verse!
The view of the courts! The courts are massively critical of any employer who does not carry out any field monitoring so: some field monitoring is better than no field monitoring some evidence of field monitoring is better than no evidence of field monitoring
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