Safety Near Miss Program Identifies Parking Lot Tripping Hazards

Apex Construction is proud to repair this asphalt parking lot that was identified as a tripping hazard by our Near Miss Safety Program. We work to ensure the safety of all our personnel and are proud of our safety record. A 'Near Miss Program' is an invaluable resource and we encourage all our business associates to consider the same. Feel free to ask us about our safety record and how we can help spread a proactive safety awareness culture within your organization.

Safety professionals in the building trades, manufacturing, and other industries do their best. However, they’re human like all of us and inherent to flaws like everybody else. And so are the people they work with and depend on. Flawed people produced flawed programs. What that means is that every safety program has some flaw somewhere. The important thing is to figure out where the flaws are and fix them. Unfortunately, it usually takes an incident to find the flaws.

Not all incidents injure people and cause damage to property. The incidents where nobody or nothing gets hurt are called “close calls” or “near misses.” A near miss incident is thus a “free shot” to identify and fix problems in a safety program before they do actual damage. It could be anything from someone walking in an aisle and almost getting hit by an opening door to a screwdriver being dropped to the floor by the maintenance guy working on a ladder and narrowly missing the skull of a maintenance worker below. Incidents like this happen all the time.