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Examples of Near Misses are as follows:-

a) A screwdriver being dropped from a scaffold tower.
b) A driver moving safety fencing and driving into the exclusion zone.
c) A missing or badly fitting manhole cover or interceptor grate that could cause a trip.
d) Other contractors who are not working safely (please talk to them about this at the time
and then report details of action taken as per your IIF (Incident & Injury Free) training to
make the situation safer).
e) A site manager who cannot understand you enough to be able to sign the clearance
certificate or know the emergency evacuation procedure (if this is the case, you should
double check your procedures and work safely as if it was an unmanned site but report
as a near miss).
f) Someone smoking on a petrol filling station.

For clarification, if someone was not wearing a safety helmet on site, I would ask you to
address this directly with them and advise your supervisor, making a note of it on your
paperwork. We want to know about these sort of issues, but would not deem this as a “Near
Miss” because that in itself could not cause harm or injury without another event happening
(the guideline is that common sense should prevail).

Our employee safety awards, presented in December 2005 recognised individuals who had
demonstrated their awareness of Health & Safety; thinking about how to avoid near misses
will reduce potential damage and accidents in the longer term and suggestions as to how we
can do things safer or better will be well received when making the recommendations for the
2006 awards.

Please feel free to contact either me or your Supervisor/Manager if you require any
clarification whatsoever relating to near misses or any other safety issue.

“let’s make sure that we continue to make our sites THE SAFEST by helping ourselves, our colleagues,
our customers and even our competitors by improving training, helping where necessary and
addressing any issues of concern there and then”

If you have any queries regarding the Safety Bulletin content or require further information please
contact any staff member of Xmo Strata Ltd.