The Near Miss / Hazard Alert (NM/HA) reporting system is a fundamental part of our safety efforts and ensures that potential risks are spotted and resolved before they cause any issues.

The Health & Safety and Operational Excellence teams want to encourage more employees to report any risks they spot on site via this system.

To support with this, over the next few months we will share a number of resources that will help employees understand what a NM/HA is, how these can be reported, and what the impact of reporting these can be.

This week, we wanted to provide a useful poster which clearly details what a NM/HA is with some simple examples. Please display this on your sites and speak to your teams about it – help them to feel empowered to report anything they spot.

The poster can be found in the downloads section of UK News website: NM/HA poster (843 downloads)

What is a Near Miss or Hazard?

• A Near Miss is an incident that could have resulted in an injury or illness to people, danger to health, and / or damage to property.
  • Example from our operations: Driver not looking when reversing.
• A Hazard is an object or situation that has the potential to harm a person or cause damage to property.
  • Example from our operations: Unguarded conveyor with potential nip points.

Report a NM/HA by filling in a physical card or logging through the INTELEX system or speak to your Supervisor. Please also encourage contractors and visitors to highlight any Near Misses and Hazards, with a fresh pair of eyes they may spot something we have become accustomed to.

Thank you all for your commitment to our goal of achieving Zero4Life.