User talk:Yeconomist

Near miss (safety)
I completely agree with your edit. I think the recent changes to add "last protective barrier" are incorrect also though. (And yes, I know you didn't make them.) In industrial safety a near miss may have nothing to do with penetrating protective barriers. A crane that drops a load that nearly hits someone is a near miss. The investigation would look at the cause of the near miss and how to prevent it. Why the load was dropped (e.g., poor rigging, overloading, material failure) and why the person was under the load (e.g., load positioning error, personnel positioning error, safety flagging error) would be considered. Meters (talk) 19:57, 27 April 2017 (UTC)