Near miss

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A Beinahunfall or near miss (English: Near Accident or Near Miss ) is a suddenly entering, unplanned event that did not have an injury, illness or damage resulted, but had the potential to do so.

concept

As a near miss near misses and near misses are called, which are detected in time and are therefore left without consequences. Accordingly, it includes:

Concept definition

A near mistake is a mistake , with the deviation behavior being recognized in good time and an actual mistake being avoided. Any occurrence that could have had undesirable consequences, but did not in the specific case, counts as a near error. Near-misses differ from errors in the result .

Worker protection

Employee protection and safety management begins with the planning of the plant and work preparation . A high level of security can only be achieved and maintained through ongoing improvements. Business practice shows that serious accidents are only the tip of the iceberg - the accident pyramid. Near work accidents form the basis. A system for preventive accident prevention was developed in order to prevent possible sources of danger from actually becoming accidents.

By establishing a near miss , the number of accidents, measured by the international key figure for work accidents (TRI = Total Recordable Injuries = sum of injuries), can be significantly reduced. The world's best companies achieve a TRI of 2.5 per million hours worked. In comparison, the average in Austria in 2007 was around 30 accidents.

Error culture

Based on experience from the ultra-safe industries , it has become apparent that a zero-error culture is neither appropriate nor expedient, but that the future of risk reduction lies in dealing positively with errors, the so-called error culture .

Error instead of zero error culture

Personal experience enables more fundamental learning than prohibitions and poorly understood rules or dogmatically practiced instructions that are intended to prevent errors. When it comes to spreading this attitude in the world of work, some European countries have some catching up to do in 2007 compared to the Anglo-Saxon countries. The culture of the organization must create such an environment that actions that lead to mistakes should not be punished, but rather recognized as potential in the mistakes made. It is therefore imperative to systematize the handling of errors and to build up an error culture.

Nearly mistakes as potential for improvement

Every serious accident is preceded by a large number of minor accidents and incidents. The early detection and elimination of these near misses enable an effective avoidance of reaching higher levels in the safety pyramid . In order to be able to record and process the large number of near-accidents in an organization, a systematic approach is essential. A near miss system should include the following stages:

  • Identify
  • Report
  • Analyze
  • Developing solutions
  • Announcing the solution approaches
  • solution
  • control

Development of a culture of error

  • Reduction of errors in the process and damage cases.
  • Reduction of risks associated with the organization in question.
  • Identification of other potential for improvement with regard to system availability, personal safety and health.
  • Improvement of the error culture.
  • Implementation of user-friendly software for recording, evaluating and tracking errors and near misses.
  • Creation of a program of measures to achieve the desired improvements.

literature

  • Roman Wagner (Ed.): Near Miss: Systematic handling of near accidents. Wagner Verlag Ltd. (Self-published), London / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502369-0-3 .

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