The monitoring and review process must be carried out in consultation between employer and employees.
Consultation between staff responsible for establishing the hazard control implementation plan and the staff monitoring should be planned, open and friendly. This allows everyone an opportunity to clarify the monitoring process, voice any concerns with the choice of monitoring strategies and tools and enable the people responsible for establishing the plan to check the monitoring standards.
While monitoring and evaluation of results allow for short-term results and fine-tuning of the implemented control measures, the action of reviewing allows for more calculated results over a longer period of time.
Review periods need to be set when establishing the implementation plan. Review periods can be set at either quarterly, bi-annually or annual installments. Alternatively, review changes can be made in incremented steps or via continuous improvement. Results from the review are calculated from the information gathered during the monitoring/evaluation phase. This may involve reviewing collected data as well as feedback from stakeholders. All changes made and their reasons for being made need to be documented as this information may be useful for future hazard control measures or the development of the new implementation plan.
Monitoring strategies and tools provide data to inform process improvement. These may include: