A corporate policy excludes near-misses from the incident reporting system so “only real injuries” are tracked. What is the primary risk-management flaw?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A near-miss is a free dress rehearsal of the injury that almost happened. If policy locks those out of the system, you throw away the cheapest warning you will ever get. Capture them, learn, and fix the setup before someone actually gets hurt.
Full Explanation
Near-miss inclusion is a core preventive control: events without injury still reveal failed barriers, unsafe conditions, and process gaps. Excluding them by policy shrinks the learning dataset and delays corrective action until harm occurs. Risk managers should encourage timely near-miss reporting, analyze patterns, and treat findings with the same corrective rigor applied to injury cases.