Health & Safety resource

Lessons learnt including near hits

In this area of the website we aim to bring together information from different sources.

The information is all about other people's experiences of close shaves, the lessons they learned and what they did about them.

We have provided you with a series of links to information on near hits from other organisations. The Strategic Forum is deeply indebted to the organisations concerned for their generous cooperation in making their information available to us.

Access the Step Change in Safety incident database  
Step Change in Safety is a UK based partnership with the remit to make the UK Oil and Gas Exploration and Production the safest in the world by 2010. This information is relevant to construction on dry land as it deals with many universally applicable issues such as simple slips and trips and manual handling incidents

Access the Safequarry website 
This site has been produced by the Quarry Products Association, its members and partners and supported by the Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology (MIST) Program. The site is dedicated to sharing health and safety best practice across the quarrying and quarry products industry.

Major Contractors Group lessons learnt
MCG member companies working with their supply chains have committed to exchange best practice and lessons learnt in order to establish the root cause of incidents. They have compiled a number of near hits/ lessons learnt examples supplied to them by member companies.

Examples of near hits	Examples of lessons learnt
Broken quick hitch link	Podium steps
Crane ballast platform base crack	Electrical live testing
Concrete pump support error	Fatal fall from height
Piling rig fall	Valve open…or closed
Scaffold batten fall	Failure of gas cartridge fire extinguisher
Waterstop barrier connector failure	MEWP fatality
	Explosion of water condensate Tank
	Scaffold building fatality
	Safe maintenance of wheeled loaders
	Machine transport routes: Mobile cranes

Share your own experiences

If you have any examples of  “near hits” case studies you wish to share, tell us about it by sending us an email. Tell us as much or as little as you like, in as much or as little detail as you wish. If you want to anonymise it feel free to do so. All contributions offered in good faith will be welcomed and shared with other website users.