Step 4. Measure against the Standard

By carrying out safety inspections the condition of the workplace and the ongoing activities of employees are now measured against the accepted safety standards. Physical inspection of the workplace will highlight instances of property damage accidents and will trigger a follow-up on the control systems to ascertain if there has been a report and consequent investigation. 

Unfortunately, most measures presently used in the safety field require loss-type aeci-dents to occur with a certain degree of severity before identification of accident problems is possible. (Tarrants, 1980, p. 319) 

Measurement involves comparison with standards and without adequate standards  

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