The incident you didn’t see coming usually sent warnings first! So stop waiting for a wake-up call… A near-miss doesn’t arrive with sirens but as a shortcut, a misunderstood sign, a rushed handover, a contractor guessing instead of knowing, a seasoned worker saying “it’ll be fine.” Then one day, a “minor lapse” becomes the metric nobody wants on the dashboard: TRIR, LTIR, DART, downtime, investigations, reputational risk. Many safety programs deliberately push for far more ne