Summer Safety Series: Why Near Miss Reporting Matters - Connected World

Have you joined us for our blog series this National Safety Month? We have already examined the importance of the underlying foundational culture, top construction hazards to prevent, the cost of ignoring safety, particularly in small businesses, and the elements of a good toolbox talk. Today, let’s turn our attention to one of the overlooked safety strategies in construction safety: near miss reporting.

Many workers and supervisors focus only on incidents that result in injuries or property damage. But near misses—events that could have caused harm but did not—often provide the clearest warning signs that serious problems exist.

Ignoring those warning signs can be a costly mistake. A dropped tool that narrowly misses a worker. A forklift that almost strikes a pedestrian. A worker who slips but catches themselves before falling. These events may not appear serious because no one was hurt, but they reveal hazards that could easily...

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