Digest
Near-misses predict future incidents — Process Safety Beacon, January 2026
Near-misses predict future incidents — Process Safety Beacon, January 2026
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon January 2026
- Learning from IncidentsProcess Safety
- Leadership and safety cultureLearning from incidentsProcess safetySafety-performance measurement
- Safety communication
Summary
This bulletin explains how near-misses can reveal weaknesses in process safety systems before serious incidents occur. It places them within Tier 3 process safety metrics and encourages personnel to recognise and report events, understand company definitions, and ask about learning. Collected reports should be analysed for potentially serious trends.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Learning from incidents; incident learning; lessons learnt; lessons learned.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Safety-performance measurement.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Summary
One-page process safety lesson on using near-miss reporting to predict and prevent future incidents.
Process Safety Beacon January 2026. Themes: learning from incidents, process safety.