Common mistakes
Go through your answer and see if you made any of these mistakes. If you did, think carefully about why you made them and how you can avoid making them again.
If you’ve just written a generic list of reactive monitoring measures as your answer, you probably won’t do much better than half marks maximum.
To get higher marks, you need to realise that you’d only be awarded one mark for correctly identifying a reactive monitoring measure that could be put in place (such as the number of working days lost due to the accident). But there would potentially be an additional mark available for supplementing that with some supporting information from the scenario (such as the traumatised workers who witnessed the accident needing to take time off).
Even though the question restricts you to only commenting on reactive monitoring (i.e., comments around active monitoring won’t gain marks), there’s still a broad range of measures that you could comment on.
Learners that didn’t gain many marks on this question could only comment on three or four monitoring measures.
Reactive monitoring measures are triggered after an event has occurred, such as when a worker goes off work due to injury or illness (lost time).
One example of a reactive monitoring measure could be to track the number of days lost due to health and safety-related incidents.
However, it’s important to provide further explanation as to why this monitoring measure was selected. For instance, in the scenario, there were traumatised workers who witnessed the accident and had to take time off work to recover.
Including this additional information in your answer will help provide a more comprehensive response and demonstrate a higher level of understanding, which can lead to higher marks.
