Sample Question Paper TASK 2 Q2 Nebosh OBE IG1 (2020)

 

Task 2: Why near misses should be investigated

Question 2:  At the health and safety committee meeting, you discuss the recent car park near miss.  Some of the committee members dismiss the idea of investigating trivial car park near misses, but you disagree. What arguments can you give to convince the committee to investigate this car park near miss?                           

                                                                                                                      (Marks-10)     

Note: You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant.

 

Mind Mapping:

·        Definition​

·        Seriousness of problem referring authentic website. (Moral, Financial & Legal)​

·        Recent parking lot near miss​

·        Breach in managing Health & Safety,  Management Failure​

·        Managers attitude​

·        HSE policy missing

 

Answer:

Near Miss is an unplanned act which has potential to cause an accident or incident if not investigated and identified. According to the HSE document HSG245 due to the work related issues 2.3 million people sustain ill-health cases 150000 human suffer severe injuries and 250  succumbs to fatality annually. As per labor force survey over £2.5 billion business cost and 40 million working days are lost due to work related accidents and ill heaths. Employers are constrained to plan, organised, control, monitor and review their health and safety arrangements as per The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, regulation 5, . The most important part of this process is Health and safety investigations.

Referring to the scenario the most accident prone area is the parking lot were the near misses occurrences are frequent and not reported or investigated this reveals management failure in implementing and managing HSE. Costly accidents can be prevented if lesson learnt from the near misses. Management is not bothered about the HSE management within the organisation moreover the Contract managers showing very casual attitude towards HSE and is irritable and abusive when interrupted this encourages negative human behavioral impact on the workers. They are afraid of getting blamed and stopped reporting near misses.

The casual attitude and poor behavior from the operation manager towards safety of the workers and near miss investigation. As the Near miss Investigation will help in identifying deficiencies in your risk control management, which will enable you to improve your management of risk in the future and to learn lessons which will be applicable to other parts of your organization?

General HSE policy is missing in the company and nobody aware of it and it is not displayed on the notice board this clearly states and specifies the Management's poor attitude towards health and safety which is unacceptable.​

Considering all mentioned all factors it is essential to investigate near misses, if management thinks HSE is expensive then they must try an accident. 

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