Review and approve proposed controls

• Management considers the risk assessments and the proposed controls.
• Approved controls should be implemented and reviewed.
• Refer to the WHSQ website for an injury cost calculator to assist in developing a business case for controls.

Trial controls

• Trial controls to ensure effective and suitable before fully implementing.

Review controls

• The work teams should be involved in monitoring, reviewing and reassessing tasks to ensure controls are effective.
• Use a control review assessment to assess the effectiveness of controls.
• Consider establishing a review committee to coordinate the implementation and evaluation of the control ideas.
• The committee suggested composition: safety staff
  • the site engineer/maintenance rep
  • a worker and management representative.
• The committees worked with everyone involved to take ownership of the PErforM process to make it a permanent part of the workplace systems.