What is the difference between incident and near-miss?

An unexpected event that happens at or off the work place which did not resulted any loss to man, material or  equipment etc. can be termed incident. A near miss is an event that did not result in injury, illness, or damage – but could have potentially resulted in loss man, material or  equipment etc.

Incident: An unplanned & undesired event that deters achievement of a task and might be cause of  injury, illness and  property damage. Unplanned and undesired also do not mean unable to prepare for Disaster.

NearMiss: A subclass of incidents that could have resulted in injury, illness or property damage, if given a different set of circumstances

i looked into standard and it states that

 

Incident is any event in which any injury or damage Occurred or could have occurred.

 

and this two word ( Occurred and Could have occurred) goes one for each Accident and Near miss.

 

Accident took the word Occurred and

Near miss took the word could have occurred.

 

these are the standard words but we need to understand practically.

 

for example:

A Person sitting on his chair with a wrong posture at his workplace which could rise him ill Health (back pain or any another physical problem) or could fall by using chair in wrong way.

 

will it be count in incident?

will be a near misses?

 

The difference is just simply that all near misses are incidents but not all incidents are near misses. To make more clerification, Incident or occurence in which there is either injury to a worker, ill health, loss or damage to property and the environment or death or any combination of all these is an accident or incident ,so not a near miss. Example of incident that is an accident is this: injury of a man on his finger who did not wear his hand gloves during wood cutting, or damage to the wheel of a mobile equip. In the site when it was being driven over a plank with sharp nails. Conversely, near miss is an incident or occurence ( not an accident) in which there might have been an injury to a person or death or ill health ,or damage to a property or to the environment but luckily non happened. For example a brick fell on the roof of a mobile equipment, while the driver was operating or driving it smatching the roof and the wind screen and luckily the driver was safe, and in good condition is never a near miss, but accident or incident. Example of a near miss in my own view is that the driver was taking a rest under a scaffold when a brick fell off and hit the toe of his boot, or hit his helmet and lucky no injury sustained by this driver is a near miss, though the safety boot , helmet or brick could have been damaged, this is still a near miss because the prices or fanancial value of these is low, though the safety value of the helmet and safety boot is high

a near miss is an incident that didn't happen .  it is still should be reported and investigated , If your safety is right a near miss should not happen 

Near Miss is a sub category of INCIDENT,

We can categorize the incident as:

Accident (Loss of Property or injury of manpower),

Dangerous Occurrence (that must have to report according to the law),

Near Misses, (some thing dangerous happened but no loss),

 

 

Basically, there is no difference between an Incident and a Near Miss. Because, A Near Miss is one of the event categorized as Incident. Where as;

 

1. Near Miss is an unplanned, unexpected, and undesigned (not purposefully caused) event that did not result in damage/loss to properties, personal injuries/illnesses, death/fatality, a decrease in value of the resources and an increase in liabilities. – but had the potential to do so. Only a fortunate break in the chain of events prevented an injury, fatality or damage; in other words, a miss that was nonetheless very near.

 

2. Another event categorized as Incident is the Accident. Where, Accident in general is an unplanned, unexpected, and undesigned (not purposefully caused) event which occurs suddenly and have resulted to damage/loss to properties, personal injuries/illnesses, death/fatality, a decrease in value of the resources and an increase in liabilities.

 

Therefore,

 

Incident can be define as, any unplanned, unexpected, undesigned (not purposefully caused) event that may or may not cause damage/loss to properties, personal injuries/illnesses, death/fatality, a decrease in value of the resources and an increase in liabilities.

incident is instance of something happening While in a near-miss  near to a accident but accident not happened

 

Nearmiss is a near accident that can cause human injury (No first aid treatment) but we must report it

and all nearmiss and accident are incident

So, Incident is a work related event(s) in which injury or ill health or fatality occured or could have occured

there is no difference!    if it can be recognized and identified as a near miss, a mistake was made!  

an incident is an incident there is nothing called near miss.