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Near accidents: definition reporting

The main benefit is the reduction in the number of accidents that cause injury to employees and damage to property. Another major benefit of near miss reporting is that it is easier to get to the root causes of the event since nobody has been injured or killed, so there is no pressing need for a cover-up. According to Jones et al. (1999), case studies of offshore oil rigs have indicated a 60-percent reduction in disabling injuries after the 10-fold increase in near miss incident reporting. Other reports indicate that there is a definite correlation between the number of near miss incidents reported and the reduction in the number of serious injuries experienced. The results... [Pg.121]

It is difficult to measure near-accident reporting reliability, because the definition of what is a reportable near accident is fuzzy. It is mainly left to the discretion of the reporter. Instead, we apply measures of the reporting propensity, i.e. the employees willingness to report. [Pg.158]

Given an understanding of the definition of a near miss, enhanced by specific examples for a facility, it may be possible to estimate how many near misses one might expect to be reported compared with the number of accidents that occur. A greater number of erroneous acts or undesirable conditions may occur compared to the number of near misses. Figure 5-1 illustrates the relationships among accidents, near misses, and nonincidents. [Pg.62]

On the other hand, voluntary incident reports are shown as not very useful in their current form for evidence-based modeling. They may only be useful in the way that they are currently used, as the alerts for possible hazards in the daily operation of shipping. In order to make the incident reports useful for accident modeling, first they need to be prepared in a more systematic way that can address the causality of the mishaps, and second a more consistent definition of near-miss situation needs to be defined to reliably assign occurred mishaps to a specific type of accident. [Pg.82]


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