Should unplanned maintenance jobs be recorded as near misses?

Written on October 1, 2012 at 8:46 am, by

OSHA mentions “near-misses” as recordable requirements in several passages as: “An unplanned and unforeseeable event that could have resulted, but did not result, in human injury, damage to property or the environment or other form of loss”.  And we know that all industrial maintenance organizations have a history of reactive, run-to-failure-then-run-to fix, maintenance management behaviors. Continue Reading