Toolbox Talk: Near-Miss Reporting

Before you start

Show the crew exactly how to report a near miss here, on paper or in the app.

Read this to your crew

A near miss is an event that could have hurt someone or damaged something but did not, this time. Every serious injury usually has a string of near misses before it that nobody reported.

Today we will talk about why reporting close calls matters and how easy it is to do.

Key points

Report every close call. A slip that did not end in a fall, a dropped tool that missed someone, a forklift that stopped just in time. All of them count.
It is not about blame. Near-miss reports are about fixing the hazard, not getting anyone in trouble.
Keep it quick. What happened, where and what could have happened. That is enough to start.
Fix it and share it. Each report should lead to a corrective action, and the crew should hear what changed.
Use your stop work authority. If you see something about to go wrong, you can stop the job.

Ask the crew

What is a close call you have seen in the last month?
What makes people hesitate to report near misses?
How can we make reporting easier here?

Picture this

Workers keep tripping over a hose that runs across a walkway, but no one reports it because nobody got hurt. Weeks later, a worker carrying a box trips, falls and breaks a wrist. One near-miss report could have gotten the hose rerouted.

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