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Health, Safety & Environmental Bulletin No 366

11 July 2013

Accident Triangle Statistics

Our accident statistics for the first half of 2013 are now
available, and show a significant improvement in hazard
awareness based on the evidence of reporting hazard
spots/ potential incidents / near misses (PI/NM) as well
as a drop in the number of first aid incidents.

The number of reported PI/NM’s has increased 43% on
the same period last year, which is significant, but when
taking into account the reduced hours worked, the
PI/NM’s per hour worked has increased by 118%.

One of the features that has helped improve this year’s
PI/NM reporting is the use of IT tablets to send reports
and illustrative photographs electronically, facilitating
faster delivery of reports to our customers and no more
paperwork lost in the post.

Of the 210 PI/NM’s report this year, 70 (33%) of them
were addressed and mitigated at source to eliminate the hazard and 21 positive interventions were made
to prevent an unsafe act from occurring.

It is widely believed that the public represent the biggest risk to us on a filling station, but interestingly,
our statistics do not support this theory as the public are only responsible for 9% of the PI/NM’s. The
biggest problem identified is the site conditions not picked up on site safety tours, or the actions of the
site staff; incidents as a result of these represent 45% of all our PI/NM’s. Incident examples involve
blocked fire exits, inappropriate muster points, using defective equipment, inadequate
procedures/training, and lack of maintenance, e.g. pot holes, or other hazards easily identifiable from a
simple site tour.

Copies of all investigations are sent to the relevant customer so that they can investigate and where
necessary implement corrective actions. We therefore encourage all crews to continue to report all
NM/PI’s identified on site so that they can be addressed and the sites can be made safer environments
for all patrons.