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Health, Safety & Environmental Bulletin No 063
S Martin – 16 November 2007
Near Miss Reporting
As previously reported, we are making great progress in increasing vigilance, reporting near misses and
sharing the lessons learnt. Some of our teams have expressed to me privately that they feel very
uncomfortable with “reporting” that they have done something wrong, or “reporting” that they have
noticed an unsafe act involving a colleague and addressing it to prevent a potential incident.
Below is the response from one of our very proactive customers to a near miss that I reported that
involved one of our teams. At the time of the incident, I identified that the barriers could have been
used more effectively, delivered a toolbox talk to the team involved (who were doing everything else in
a very safe manner) and built the findings into bulletin No 59.
I hope the response endorses that we and our customers will not allocate blame, but will use your
findings and suggestions to help others learn.
Excerpt from the e-mail as follows:-
Steve,
As part of the monthly review of the ALERT BBS Web Solution, collectively carried out by M&R,
Construction & Esso, one of the near misses selected for discussion was Near Miss no. 505. This near
miss was reported by yourself and was a direct result of the Alert Observation no. 4190 which you
carried out at Oxpens S/Stn on 25/07/07.
On behalf of myself and all of whom participated on the call-in, I would like to congratulate you on the
quality and content of both the near miss & the AO. All participating members of the session were
most impressed with the pro-active nature of the near miss. The fact that this near miss involved your
own engineers further demonstrates how the ALERT system is being embraced by yourselves and the
other contractors as an invaluable learning tool and not as a means to lay blame or carry out a 'finger
pointing exercise'.
Many thanks for your contributions and keep up the good work!
Regards.
ABB Project Engineer
