Best Practices in near-miss reporting. The role of near-miss reporting in creating and enhancing the safety culture

      Аннотация: The ISM Code requires that hazardous situations are to be reported to the company, investigated and analysed in order to prevent future happenings. Near-miss reporting gains importance in this respect, because, near-misses are believed to represent experiences and mistakes that should be shared to learn from in order to prevent bigger accidents. However, the general belief is that near-misses are not reported at the level as expected by the authorities. Some studies have been carried out to find out main barriers to reporting.

Ключевые слова: Safety Culture, ISM Code, near miss, incident reporting