Morning You are on the right track with the list. Other items could include "leading" indicators such as any safety inspections or audits completed and their results, especially where remedial or corrective actions might require their support or resourcing. That said what I would suggest (only my personal suggestion!) is that the agenda for your 1st meeting is to agree a terms of reference for the meeting - attendees, frequency of meeting, items to be discussed. That way you get the managers to tell you what they want to know about and you are actively consulting with them at the same time - win / win. J

Are you working to OHSAS 18001? The standard contains a quite lengthy list of items to cover in a management review.

Hi Kate, yes we are working to OHSAS 18001, aswell as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, I was told these were to have management reviews annually, with items covered as per the standard. But an additional health and safety meeting to be held quarterly, which is what I'm setting up now. Have I been told correctly? I may be confusing terms...

I am just about about to restart just such a H&S committee which has been moribund for nearly a year. The agenda will include various things but I assume that this first meeting will be about bottoming out the ToR. It is really important that you get this right, then everybody knows what the committee is for and equally important what it is not for. Will it have an actual operational role such as approving risk assessments or is it more an opportunity to discuss progress on H&S matters? Who will attend and who will be chairing it (H&S chairing this sort of committee is generally a bad thing- you need someone with actually operation control such as a Director or the CEO) Finally how are you going to stop it being use as a moaning session with people turning with their pet complaints (eg the draught in the reception area) and use it rather as a positive forum to promote real H&S in the company?