Posted By ray millward Can anyone help with material for a toolbox talk on the subject of near miss reporting also design for an accompanying poster ? Thanks

Posted By Robert K Lewis You will need to confront a number of problems in putting the concept across. 1) To be effective you need to convince people fully that the more NMs reported the better, provided they are properly actioned. It is an indicator of vigilance not of poor performance. 2) A minor injury is not a NM. People tend to only see events as they happen. You need to expand how they see things, eg. The fire extinguisher propping open the door is as much a NM as a nut falling past someone's head and missing them - a hit is a recordable injury. NB I use recordable to mean all treatments in the Accident Book 3) Non use of PPE or misuse is also a NM, as is the non use of a specified method. 4) The achievement of measurable targets is sometimes problematic: I have seen and used the following a)A ratio of NM reports to recordable injuries to be set as a monthly target, eg 25:1 with a minimum of 25 b)Supervisors to record number seen in a 1/2 hour time window twice per day and insert into the formula (Total NM Recorded in Day/Week/Month)/ No Employees The use of fixed time periods tends to standardise some of the variables. I know DUPONT have followed this idea and some plants have plotted the figures with Action and Control limits set - but you need time for this latter idea. c) Combination of both with employees results only contributing to the ratio. Hope this helps but please e-mail me direct if you need a fuller discussion. Bob