What this check covers

This free check measures whether an organisation mainly reacts to incidents and audits or actively looks for weak signals and changing risk before harm occurs. Nine questions ask what usually triggers safety action, whether leaders review leading indicators such as overdue controls and exposure gaps rather than only injury rates, whether operational changes are assessed for new risk before they happen, whether the safety impact is reconsidered when workload or production pressure rises, whether near misses are treated as valuable early information, whether managers spend enough time watching real work, whether you can name the controls, medicals and inspections that will fall overdue in the next 30 to 90 days, whether a lesson in one area triggers checks elsewhere, and whether resources go to known risk before an incident makes the cost unavoidable. There are no separately flagged safety-critical questions. It is not tied to a single regulation. It is written for safety leaders and managers. Lagging indicators tell you where harm has already happened; this check is about the signals that appear before the injury statistic.