NEAR MISS
Safety starts with prevention
Every day, on the shop floor as well as on site, events happen that could have caused an injury and yet did not: these are near-misses "close calls." They cause no harm, but they point exactly to where and how the next real accident could happen.
The problem is that in most companies these signals are never captured: they stay in the memory of whoever witnessed them, get lost by the end of the shift, and never become data anyone can act on.
What Near Miss
Near-Miss is any unplanned event that could have caused an injury, damage, or a business interruption, and yet did not by chance, by timing, or thanks to the alertness of the people involved.
It's an accident that almost happened: a forklift that grazes a worker, a ladder that slips, a machine that stalls without hurting anyone. Signals that, if ignored, tend to repeat themselves until luck runs out.
The challenge for companies
For companies, the real challenge isn't convincing people that near misses exist, but building a process that actually surfaces them:
workers often don't report them due to lack of time, or because the process is too cumbersome (paper forms, emails, verbal reports that get lost);
there is fear of consequences or of the stigma of "having made a mistake";
without a structured tool, the data collected never becomes useful statistics for spotting recurring patterns, critical areas, or at-risk equipment;
reports, when they do come in, often stay isolated instead of feeding an ongoing prevention plan.
Intag system: the concrete response to Near-Miss
How companies actually tackle Near Miss
Companies that reduce workplace injuries aren't the ones that eliminate risk entirely (impossible), but the ones that turn every near miss into usable data: immediate, on-the-spot reporting with no friction and a clear overview that allows them to act before the real accident happens.
This is exactly the space intag operates in, with digital tools designed to make data collection as simple as a smartphone scan
Who it's for
This approach to near-miss management is designed in particular for:
Companies with more than 15 employees
Manufacturing companies and production plants
Construction sites and building companies
Warehouses and logistics operations
Any business with machinery, material handling, or at-risk workstations