Close Observation definition

Close Observation means that the competent person must have the ability to observe a new miner’s work practices during task training ensuring the miner is not jeopardizing his or her own health and safety or the health and safety of others. We do not mean that the competent person must completely abandon his or her normal duties, as long as the competent person can adequately monitor the work practice. However, in some situations, the competent person may have to cease normal work duties to ensure that this performance-based standard is met.
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Close Observation means documented visual observation of youth at all hours and interaction with youth during waking hours periodically, but at least every ten minutes round the clock.
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Close Observation means a process by which a detainee/inmate is paced in an area where he or she can be observed for behaviors that may be dangerous to him/herself or others.
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Examples of Close Observation in a sentence

  • Close Observation is reserved for the inmate who is not actively suicidal, but expresses suicidal ideation (e.g., expressing a wish to die without a specific threat or plan) and/or has a recent prior history of self-destructive behavior.

  • Provider shall manage the entire Treatment Center (admissions and discharges-including those on Psychiatric Close Observation) in partnership with security with the ultimate goal of the Inmates being stepped down to a lower level of care and security.

  • Provider shall provide behavioral health contacts to Inmates who are on Psychiatric Close Observation (“PCO”) as outlined in DDOC Policy B-05 Suicide Prevention and Intervention.

  • Provider shall provide psychiatric technicians which are responsible for visual monitoring of Inmates who have been assessed at risk of self-directed violence (otherwise known as Psychiatric Close Observation).


More Definitions of Close Observation

Close Observation means visual surveillance of a juvenile by staff in a secure facility that shall be conducted in person at staggered intervals not to exceed 15 minutes, and, in a community program, continuous visual supervision by a designated staff member assigned to the juvenile who keeps him or her within the immediate area and under continuous visual supervision.
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Close Observation means intermittent monitoring of a juvenile either in person or by
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