Getting employees to report near misses is a challenge. Employees often question the value of reporting what they’ve seen. Indeed, many fear that coming forward with a report will cause trouble and lead to punishment. However, there’s an effective technique to overcome reluctance: Analogize near misses at work to incidents at home. Since many workers are parents—and all of them were once children—this casts the subject in a light to which they can readily relate. Here’s one way to use the technique. Near Misses Happen at Work and Home A Near Miss is an undesired event that, under slightly different circumstances, could have […]