A rising near-miss count can signal trust and engagement, but it can also reflect quotas, weak classification, and low-value reporting. This article explores near-miss inflation and why organizations should focus on report quality, potential severity, control failure, and learning value rather than raw volume.

Zero harm can raise standards and signal that preventable injury is unacceptable. But when zero becomes a performance target rather than a safety ambition, it can encourage underreporting, fear, metric manipulation, and false confidence. This article explores how organisations can keep the ambition while protecting honesty, learning, and serious-risk control.

A green HSE dashboard does not necessarily mean risk is controlled. Learn how better leading indicators, critical control measures and trends can reveal what traditional safety KPIs miss.