1. OEAP – SAPOE Combined Conference March 2016 Kendal
The functions of Monitoring In
Adventure Activities
Andy Lavin, Niall Leyden, Marcus Bailie

2. 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.

3. Competence Selection Induction Validation Deployment Monitoring
Further training and experience

4. 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

5. Types of monitoring Working along side Walking the floor
Dedicated monitoring
Validation
Revalidation

6. 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!

7. 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

8. Marcus Bailie 029 2075 5715 Adventure Activities mbailie @ aals. org
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