Duo collaborate to start Near Miss campaign
The aim of the campaign is to raise an awareness across all sectors of the hospitality industry of the importance of 'Near Miss Reporting' to prevent fatalities.
A near miss can be defined as ‘an undesired event that, under slightly different circumstances, could have resulted in harm to people or damage to property, materials or the environment’.
Research has shown that for every 90 near misses an accident will occur. The ultimate goal of near miss reporting is to address the incident and take action to prevent reoccurrence and remove the potential of an accident.
The duo said: “We believe there are more near misses related to allergen management than are actually reported, the aim of the surveys is to validate the information we are often given by the FHS customer, for a final report to use in the launch of the Near Miss Campaign in May.
“We would like to understand how Hospitality Businesses are managing ‘Near Miss Reporting’ and how we can put more information out there to encourage a no blame culture within businesses to prevent serious incidents.
“We are collating data from the hospitality sector by means of a survey which is being conducted by Sofija Putak who is a final year student at Greenwich University studying Hotel Management BA Hons.
“Sofija will collate responses from the survey and will create the report, we would like you to support this initiative as you will be helping to support the future management of our industry and produce viable data to push forward with training food safety amongst our colleagues across the industry.
“We have produced a resources page https://hasuk.co.uk/near-miss-campaign-whats-it-all-about/ where you can download a range of images and additional information required to create posts, and articles as appropriate.
“Once the survey has closed on Sunday 20 March, we will produce reports / white paper as appropriate. The campaign will be launched Mid/end May 2022, we will be happy to share the results with your publication.”
Please find the Near Miss Campaign survey here. There is also a survey for Food Hypersensitive (FHS) customers to fill out too.