Marine Engineering

A sequence of events or conditions that could have resulted in a loss, the potential loss could be human injury, environmental damage, or negative business impact.  Near miss may define the primary condition which may lead to an accident. or its a warning of an accident so to avoid an accident the primary conditions(near miss) to be eliminated by corrective actions. Examples of near miss: Any event that leads to the implementation of an emergency procedure, plan or response and thus prevents a loss Eg.:- a collision is narrowly avoided; or a crew member double checks a valve and discovers a wrong pressure reading on the supply side Any event where an unexpected condition could lead to an adverse consequence, but which does not occur. Eg.:- a person moves from a location immediately before a crane unexpectedly drops a load of cargo there, or a ship finds itself off-course in normally shallow waters but does not ground because of an unusually high spring tide Any dangerous...