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Incident vs Accident vs Near Miss
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Do you know, what is the difference between an Incident, accident, and near-miss
Different organizations put the meaning of incident, accident and near-miss in different ways. You might have found it in your incident reporting formats.
Some organizations only use few terms while others choose many. Some only have incident and accident reporting form while others have an incident, accident, near miss, dangerous occurrence forms.
An organization may only use one incident report form based on its activity/industry or following legal requirements.
All accidents or near-misses are incidents but not all incidents are accident or near-misses. To understand this let us look at the definition of incident, accident and near-miss.
What is Incident
An unwanted event which may have or may not have resulted in injury/loss of property.
What is Accident
An unwanted event which has resulted in injury/loss of property.
What is Near-miss
An unwanted event which has not resulted in injury/loss of property.
Difference Between Incident and Near-miss
The incident is sometimes considered as only near-miss or confused with near-miss because, in some organizations, near-misses are recorded as incidents. But incident can be an accident or near-miss, as you can infer from the definitions above.
Every country has different reporting requirement such as in the UK if an incident happened and there is no loss, and there was no one near the event then it must be reported as a Dangerous Occurrence.
Incident can help you measure the cumulative of the accidents and near-misses if you considered them different and according to their definitions.
I hope this helps you understand your organization’s incident reporting format and the actual difference between an incident, accident, and near-miss.
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