Near Miss Reporting

A near miss or hit is an indication that a correction is required in the workplace. Too often employers wait for an actual injury, damage to equipment, loss of productivity, or other serious impact to occur before taking steps fix workplace hazards. However, there are a lot of advantages to tracking near misses, including:

• Improves employee safety, moral and overall safety culture
• Engages employees and makes EHS everyone’s responsibility
• Mitigates risks to company productivity and profits
• Chance to share lessons learned across locations