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Apart from presenting lovely charts and percentages what do you do with near miss statistics you generate?
Workplace talks to highlight the issues.
Pass on info to colleagues in other departments to learn.
Modify work practices.
Review risk assessments.
What other proactive measures do you do with your near miss statistics?
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All of the above and use them as part of the business case for the overall H&S plan
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James, you could benchmark your near miss stats against departments/ areas of the company, as well as actual incidents and accidents to see if their is a correlation and/or improvement.
Ray
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James
We implemented a programme to investigate each near miss reported, that is where we saw the value in reporting, in investigating and improving the workplace / processes etc to prevent similar incidents.
The stats where just used to indicate the effectiveness of the program, as you say nice graphs!
We did try the benchmarking as Ray suggests but had some rather negative results we didn't anticipate!
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Inter departmental reporing falls down always if the stated aim is for fewer reports as the indicator. Reverse the emphasis, reaching a target level or greater, and it is amazing what comes out of the woodwork.
Bob
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Not a statistic, but it is good to put some effort into considering the potential consequences of a near miss and identifying why they did not occur. This is almost the opposite of an incident investigation. Instead of establishing what happened and why, you are actually establishing what could of happened and why it did not.
There can be a number of useful outcomes from this. The first is that you will find that there is a degree of luck in avoiding a consequence. Obviously we don't want to rely on luck, so this can encourage us to work harder at avoidance. The other is that people will often have detected the problem and intervened early so that a consequence was avoided. Whereas incident investigations often (by necessity) identify what people did wrong, near miss investigations can be used to highlight the good things people do. Finally, you may find that safety systems (engineered and procedural) were effective at avoiding the consequence, and this information can be used to determine if they could be implemented more widely.
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Agree with comments above.
Had a very similar disussion with my employer recently, where Scottish region was frowned upon for not reporting nearly as many near misses as South West. It was our opinion in reporting a near miss, that there is a corrective action or learning outcome from it that can be measured. 75% SW had no corrective action or outcome.
MAT
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I also agree with the positive aspects highlighted by andybz. It all goes wrong of course, when senior dept managers come out with statements like "I expect to have at least 30 near miss reports per month" and make it a performance measure or KPI to exceed the "minimum number". You then start getting very daft near misses reported by people who simply want to make up the numbers expected and have an easy life!
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There are so many reasons why near miss reporting and trending are useful. The key in my opinion is that the near miss report, anonymous or otherwise is the preview into an unsafe condtion or act without the accident or injury. It offers an opportunity to to understsand if a partcular site has an issue that might not be apparent through the audit process.
Normalising the near misses per hour worked is also a useful tool. However there is always the danger that individuals will KPI their sites on minimum numbers produced. In the scheme of things those near misses that have been used to boost numbers are generally obvious. I would accept these if every now and again a NM report highlights a significant issue otherwise un-noticed.
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Folks, thanks very much for the responses. Lots to go on. Cheers!
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