5. Monitoring

The Department of Labour will continue to work closely with the Workplace Health and Safety Council, industry, researchers and practitioners to monitor progress in achieving the Occupational Health Action Plan, particularly in respect of a whole sector approach to reducing exposure to workplace health hazards.

The Department will work with others to ensure access to better quality information on the state of occupational health and safety in New Zealand for interested stakeholders. This will include developing a broad framework for both activity and outcome monitoring which includes:

• immediate measures of response to activity
• intermediate measures of changed awareness and/or practice in workplaces, and
• intermediate measures to record improvements in statistics.

The Department will report on progress against high-level indicators for occupational health in an annual State of Workplace Health and Safety report.

Each of the organisations/agencies that have contributed actions to this plan will monitor progress of their own activity against the stated indicators and measures of success. The Department will take a supporting and co-ordinating role, collating the information annually for inclusion in a progress report for the National Action Agenda and all the Action Plans.

This Occupational Health Action Plan will be reviewed and updated in 2014.

 

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