Near mishap

A near mishap is the occurrence of an unplanned event that did not result in injury, illness, or damage, but had the potential to do so. 

A near miss is the occurrence of an unplanned event that did not result in injury, illness, or damage, but had the potential to do so. Only a fortunate break in the chain of events prevented an injury, fatality, or damage. Related terms are incident, close call, near mishap or near collision. The term is often misunderstood and misused. An event is called a near miss to stress that not only did things go wrong,but that a catastrophe was barely missed. In the airline industry, if two airliners pass within a quarter mile of each other, this is by definition a near miss event. Some individuals feel it is a euphemistic term for a near hit. A near miss could be viewed as the partial actualization of a hazard, resulting in an incident rather than a mishap. It could also be a situation where only part of a hazard occurs for various reasons, such as operator alertness and counteraction, thus preventing a mishap event. For example, a collision avoidance system intended to prevent a collision between two aircraft in the same airspace may have failed without any warning, but an alert pilot saw the situation and took countermeasures to prevent a collision. 

The control of chemical reactions is our business. Through the control of reactive chemicals we manufacture nearly all our products. Normally, we carry out these reactions without incident or mishap. However, occasionally chemical reactions have the potential to get out of control because we may use the wrong material, change operating conditions, have unanticipated time delays, have equipment failures, or because we don t always completely understand the chemistry of our process. 

Barach P, Small S D 2000 Reporting and preventing medical mishaps lessons from non-medical near miss reporting systems. British Medical Journal 320 759-763. 

Safety professionals give many names to the incidents to which a causation model would apply accidents, incidents, mishaps, near-misses, occurrences, events, illnesses, fires, explosions, windstorms, drownings, electrocutions, and so on. Pat Clemens, a prominent safety consultant, has said that the language used by safety practitioners lacks words to convey precise and understood meanings. It s probable that the people with whom safety professionals try to eommunicate are baffled by the many terms used to describe hazards-related incidents. 

Incidents as a term is to encompass all hazards-related events (HAZRINS) that have been referred to as accidents, mishaps, near misses, occupational illnesses, environmental spills, losses, fires, explosions, et cetera. 

The technique consists of interviewing personnel regarding involvement in accidents or near accidents difficulties, errors, and mistakes in operations and conditions that could cause mishaps [p. 188]. 

Figure 32 shows the overall release for Scenario B. A munitions accident or other mishap is postulated in Tsivolka Fjord, near the dump site in the year 2050. This accident is assumed to breach Containers B and C on the pontoon, and also break off the RPV lids in the RC. The contents of all the units are then exposed to BCRs, with no containment barriers. 

Root Cause Analysis analysis that identifies causal factors relating to a mishap or near-miss incidents. 

The purpose of the Root Cause Analysis is to identify causal factors relating to a mishap or near-miss incidents. The technique goes beyond the direct causes to identify fundamental reasons for the fault or failure. 

Safety talks, sometimes called toolbox talks, are an important training tool for the safety and health department and the supervisor. These safety talks can be used to cover a wide range of important safety topics in real time or immediately after mishaps or near-misses have occurred. Safety talks have the benefit of incorporating specific company issues and concerns. 

Incident An occurrence, happening or energy transfer which results from either positive or negative influencing events and may be classified as an accident, mishap, near-miss, or neither, depending on the level and degree of the negative or positive outcome. 

For many organizations, the term near miss is not only misunderstood, bnt it is underrated with regards to the potential for a near miss incident to become a profit-draining accident and possible injnry at a workplace. The term near miss incident also can be dehned as a narrowly avoided mishap. What that means in the manufacturing, constrnction, or mining indnstry is that a person narrowly avoids an injury due to an nnforeseen mishap or when there is an undesired event, which, by a stroke of luck, narrowly avoids damaging a piece of equipment, property, or material. These are missed safety signals. 

Program Elements 1. Written policy, purpose, scope Statement of objectives Standards compliance Responsibility/accountability assigned Implementation activities A. Training/certification Written procedures Hazardous operations Hazardous materials Hazardous operations permits Personal protective program Mishap/near-miss investigations Mishap/near-miss records and reports Fire/explosion safety Emergency preparedness Procurement and subcontract safety Safety representatives on-site Implementation of supplemental requirements... 

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. 

An incident is the occurrence of an unexpected event, which is generally undesired, where the outcome does not result in serious damage, injury, death, or loss. An incident is considered to be a near miss to a serious accident or mishap, which would have more serious consequential outcome. An incident is similar to a mishap in that it is the outcome resulting from an actualized hazard however, in this case, the hazard is only partially actualized, thus precluding any loss or damage. If complete hazard actualization had taken place, a mishap would have resulted. Documenting and analyzing incident reports and near misses are important in system safety because an assessment may reveal a previously unidentified hazard. 

Incident A near miss accident with minor consequences that could have resulted in greater loss. An unplaimed event that could have resulted in an accident, or did result in minor damage, and which indicates the existence of, though may not define, a hazard or hazardous condition. Sometimes called a mishap. 

The near-term consequences of this tragedy were modest. An inquest was held in secret and concluded that Maddison died of accidental mishap. Porton Down suspended nerve agent tests on human subjects. The family was informed of his death, although details were withheld from all but his father, who was admonished to refrain from sharing what he had learned. Some months later, a newspaper reporter found Maddison s death certificate, however, and details of the... 

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