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Posted By Neil Hallsworth
Our near miss reporting system is continuously being overloaded with reports of minor hazards, rather than true near misses (probably because we set numeric tagets for near miss reporting!). Has anyone else experienced this, if so what did you do about it, and how successsful was it?
Many thanks
Neil
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Posted By Jay Joshi
We differentiate between near misses & potential hazards. In a near miss, an incident does occur, but no one is injured or there is no damage to property/equipment.
A potential hazard is one that can lead to either a near miss or injury. Typically most potential hazards constitute hazards that can be fixed/repaired by facilities management.
This is not to imply that we do not have a maintenanace programme. In order to make it easy & simple to report, we have a system where a phone call or an e-mail to our facilities management contractor is adequate. We get returns of such requests on a monthly basis and categorise them to look for any trends etc. We also have potential hazard reporting via our detailed HSE Event Reporting System, but ever since introducing the simpler system , the majority of potential hazards get reported to our facilities mamangement contractor.
I feel that this encourages employees to report potential hazards, irrespective whether they are trivial/minor or major and we can act opon them.
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Posted By Rob French
Me too, I only joined the organisation October last year and noticed that near-miss reports were very thin on the ground. I've promoted the use of this useful "tool" but some departments I think, are abusing it with very doubtful instances, quite clearly for their own advantage. It is a shame because in our organisation a report goes through many "hands" for action and this kind of attitude could very well degrade it's use,
Regards
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Posted By Hilary Marchant
Hi Neil
Could you adopt the "Yellow Peril" system? Yellow Perils are used in circumstances where there could have been be injury, damage, or loss had circumstances been slightly different. I devised a simple format and had it photocopied onto bright yellow paper. The advantages were that the forms had a catchy name - the concept was easy for everyone to understand; even the CEO used to ask about Yellow Perils; they were obvious to see in everyone's in tray; and one or more on my desk certainly sorted out my priority for the day. You could give each form a serial number so that they assume greater importance.
Routine reporting could then be carried on using your existing format.
I hope this idea helps.
Regards
Hilary Marchant
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Posted By Sean Fraser The offshore industry (and now us becuase I introduced it here) call the Yellow Peril a HIPO - High Potential incident. This categorises a near miss as one theat must be addressed rather than one that adds to the statisitcal pile, as it were. A HIPO is characterised by an incident that, if circumstances had been slightly different, a fatality WOULD have occured. This then puts it right at the top of the pile. A HIPO can be for minor injuries as well as non-injury events. A major injury doesn't count as you should be investigating with a view to prevention anyway! An example - a loading failure and partial collapse of racking in an enclosed room. If the room was one where people seldom enter, e.g. annual maintenance, then it is a dangerous occurence. If it is one that people are usually in but at the time everyone was out for the 10 minute break, then it might be a HIPO - IF you consider that the nature of the incident would have resulted in at least one fatality. More information on HIPO can be found at the Step Change website at http://step.steel-sci.org/ Hope that helps.
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Posted By Neil Hallsworth
Many thanks for the feedback; very helpful!
Neil.
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Posted By Anwar Afzal
I think this is a very useful tool as it provides good info which can be acted upon efficiently.
I work in social housing regeneration and we come across many incidents involving needles, this reporting helps to keep a strict regime of control and monitoring.
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