At a recent safety conference, I attended a talk that centered around Heinrich’s Law. While this “law” is being revisted and further studies, the Heinrich Pyramid remains one of the featured graphics among safety professionals. And naturally, Incident Check also features this alongside Pareto Charts for Causal Analysis, a Report Map, and pretty much every other metic or breakdown a company needs.
However, the concept of “mining the pyramid” is one where you look into all of the recorded near misses and incidents and begin identifying those that are high risk. The intention is to drive out more of the trends that your company needs to focus on – those near misses and incidents that are serious but might be lost among all the other reporting.
We at Incident Check are looking to provide tools to facilitate this process – underlying every incident, hazard, and near miss report is the risk matrix with the severity and the liklihood of reccurrence giving the overall total risk. We are now working on ways to highlight this inside of the existing Acident Pyramid to provide a strong visual representation of these events.