If you don’t investigate today’s near-miss incident, you’re not going to prevent tomorrow’s accident. And, because you can’t examine what you don’t know about, make sure you can rely on employees to report all incidents.
Near-miss incidents (or “close calls,” as they’re also often dubbed) are leading indicators of safety performance. A “leading indicator” is a measurable factor or statistic that may indicate future value or direction of another variable, such as workplace accidents.
A “lagging indicator,” on the other hand, is a measurable factor or statistic that indicates facts about past events. A workplace injury and illness log or a lost workday report are lagging indicators. The trouble with lagging indicators is that they don’t really tell you the root causes or catalysts for accidents and near misses.
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Blame-Free Environment
Near-miss incidents are invaluable tools for identifying patterns of undesirable events that could lead to accidents. But, in order to examine near misses and find solutions to safety problems, you have to know about the hazards that cause these incidents. Unfortunately, near misses are often underreported because employees are afraid of getting into trouble.
According to Safety.BLR.com, reporting can be discouraged by a culture of blaming and disciplinary action associated with mistakes or unsafe behavior. You’ll only get employees to report incidents that could lead to accidents in a blame-free environment where employees see positive action taken to eliminate hazards.
To encourage employees to report near-miss incidents:
- Place no blame and take no disciplinary action for reporting near misses.
- Allow anonymous reporting.
- Investigate all near misses the same way you do accidents and publish finding.
- Praise employees and contractors for reporting near misses.
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Preventing accidents is a central focus of your job. Coping with near misses and other safety incidents and using them to improve workplace safety is tough, demanding work. But you have help if you’re a Safety.BLR.com subscriber.
There are a multitude of expert safety and health resources available on Safety.BLR.com to help you deal with close calls and so many other vital workplace safety issues.
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Training responsibilities become a snap with the website’s thousands of audio presentations, PowerPoints®, meetings, toolbox talks, trainer’s guides, and much, much more. You’ll find training tools on more than 150 safety topics along with plain-English compliance analysis and other resources.
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