Accident, incident, near miss or just an event that needs addressed

[pdhmobile]

Hi all, I would appreciate your thoughts on this one.

An individual was found to be on top of a structure, approximately 1.5m tall without any working at height equipment which he was using to access an inspection point.

The person was rope access trained so they know all about working at height.

Another person observed him and told them to grlet down and reminded them of the working at height requirements.

Would you class it as a accident , incident, near miss, an event that needs following up or put it down to experience?

[wendolene26]

I would say that as no injury or asset damage was incurred, that it's a near miss. An accident and a near miss are both incidents, it's just the classification of incident that's different.

Definitely wouldn't "put it down to experience". I would say it needs recorded and investigated with Root Cause Analysis and resulting actions identified (refresh of rope access training awareness - the individual is trained, but are they competent... etc. etc.)

Hope this helps.

Wendo