Near miss

Japanese: near miss(英語表記)nearmiss
Near miss

…Occupational Safety, Health and Working Environment [Takeshi Fujimoto]
[Disaster prevention]
Heinrich's Law is well known for pointing out that in 330 industrial accidents, 1 is serious, 29 are minor, and 300 are accidents that result in no injury (where an injury is narrowly avoided). In order to prevent accidents, it is important to identify and eliminate risk factors through analysis of the causes of accidents that have occurred and accidents that could occur (near misses), and to predict the occurrence of accidents in advance. This must be done whenever a new work system or new technology is introduced.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "near miss" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…労働安全衛生労働環境【藤本 武】
[災害の予防]
 労働災害については,330件の災害のうち1件は重大,29件は軽少,300件はけがのない(危うくけがを免れた)災害であったことを指摘したハインリヒの法則は有名である。 災害の予防のためには,発生した災害や未然事故(ニアミスnear miss)の原因分析から危険要因を明らかにしこれを取り除くこと,災害発生の事前予測が重要である。新しい作業システムや新しい技術が導入されるときはこれを必ず実行する必要がある。…

※「near miss」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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