The importance of near miss reporting to further improve safety performance

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-67

  Jones, Simon ^a   Kirchsteiger, Christian ^b   Bjerke, Willy ^c  

^a EPSC   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Incident reporting; Near miss reporting; Quantitative incident data; Quantitative risk estimates; Seveso II

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038764221     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-4230(98)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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