211 – Near Miss and PSIF Reporting
- Potential for Serious Injury or Fatality (PSIF) – An exposure activity that has the potential to cause a serious injury or fatality due to it involving specific activities that are known to have a higher probability of causing injury and/or death.
- PSIF Near Miss – A near miss incident that occurs in one or more of the
nine SNC high-risk for personnel safety predetermined PSIF exposure
activities. The incident types include:
- Falls from elevation incidents
- Arc flash/blast incidents and electrical contact with greater than 50 volts
- Mobile equipment incidents
- Confined space incidents
- Lifting and rigging incidents
- Trenching incidents
- Diving incidents
- Unexpected release of hazardous energy, toxic chemical, or exposure to explosion/fire incidents
- Struck by or caught in equipment incidents
- Event Learning – A process, by which information is gathered from an event/incident that enables the fleet to share learnings. Event Learnings are typically used to investigate PSIF events.
- Incident – An unplanned, undesired industrial safety event that adversely affects completion of a task.
- Near Miss – An incident that DID NOT result in an injury or illness BUT had the potential to do so under slightly different conditions, such as time or position.