Near-Miss Tracking

Near-misses teach without the cost of incidents. The tracking that learns from them.

Define

An event that almost became an incident but didn't.

Saved by luck or by a safety mechanism that wasn't supposed to fire.

Log

Per near-miss: what almost went wrong, what saved it, what would prevent recurrence.

Lighter than postmortem; more learning per unit time.

Act

Investigate the near-misses. Many reveal hidden risks.

Action items: small but cumulative.