Near miss management commitment

Management commitment is vital to ensure that organisational learning from near misses should be its only function. At the least a voluntarily reported near miss should never have any negative repercussions for those reporting it ... 

Many factors have been highlighted as supporting the development of an effective patient safety culture. Some of the important ones are management (i.e., management commitment, ability, leadership, coordination, and flexibility), immediate supervisors (i.e., open-door policy, participation, and support correct behavior), reporting system (i.e., reporting near-miss, no-blame culture, analysis of error, open-door policy, confidentiality, and feedback). 

The degree of integration of safety principles and standards, and involvanent, is directly proportional to the amount of management leadership and commitment. The more encouragement and support management gives employees, the more near miss incidents will be reported. 

This organization s policy commits it to implement and maintain a comprehensive safety and health management system, one of the elements being the near miss incident system. 

If you admit that you are wrong, you take the wind out of the other person s sails and there s nothing to argue about. Being mature in safety management is important to create an environment for motivation. If there has been a failure to rectify a reported situation or near miss incident, admit it and commit to time-based actions to flx the situation. 

After the necessary controls have been implemented, it s important to periodically review yom job hazard analysis to ensure that it remains current and continues to help reduce workplace accidents and injuries. Even if the job has not changed, it is possible that dming the review process you will identify hazards that were not identified in the initial analysis. It is particularly important to review your job hazard analysis if an illness or injury occirrs on a specific job. Based on the circumstances, you may determine that you need to change the job procedure to prevent similar incidents in the futru e. If an employee s failure to follow proper job procedures results in a near miss, discuss the situation with all employees who perform the job and remind them of proper procedures. Any time you revise a job hazard analysis, it is important to train all employees affected by the changes in the new job methods, procedures, or protective measures adopted. Remember, a JHA is one component of the larger commitment of a safety and health management system. 

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