NRCoP and ANZSOG present: The Hidden Signals: Enhancing Regulatory Oversight through Near-Miss Reporting

Jodi Goodall’s 2023 NRCoP Conference presentation ‘Adapting the Near-Miss Framework for your Regulatory Agency’, shared an organisational perspective about near-miss reporting.  It provided insights to regulators on the value of near-miss data to prevent catastrophic events. Some takeaways:

• Near-misses and precursor events precede every major disaster – often in patterns. These are early warning signs of failure.
• Regulators must understand their industry’s catastrophic risks & key controls to know which near-misses to collect.
• Near-miss reporting is 50-50 psychology and risk imagination, so those reporting near-misses need to know they won’t be unjustly treated, as well as educated on what ‘could’ happen.
• Experiencing a big event is rare – the regulator is in the perfect position to lift their industry’s risk knowledge by collecting, analysing and sharing near-misses ‘as learning opportunities!’

Now, in a follow-up presentation hosted by NOPSEMA in Perth, Jodi will expand on that presentation, from the regulator’s perspective. Exploring the challenges regulators face when collecting and using near-miss data, such as the tension between making it safe to report and taking appropriate action. Or collecting data in a way that you can effectively use it, to avoid ‘guilty knowledge’.

Jodi will use case studies to show how successful risk-based regulators encourage a healthy level of near-miss reporting, make meaning of near-miss data, use it to inform targeted programs and interventions, and nurture industry to learn the lessons near-miss data offers – before major failure.

Online:

• Zoom Webinar Platform
• 1.00pm – 2.00pm (AEST)

Webinar time is in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), please ensure you check your jurisdiction time zone for time differences.

We recommend adding the webinar event Zoom login details to your calendar.

The Zoom login details are provided via the registration confirmation email. Please let us know at regulators@anzsog.edu.au if you haven’t received the confirmation email (remember to check your junk/spam inboxes).

In-person:

• Location: National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), Level 10, 58 Mounts Bay Road, Perth
• Time: 10.30am – 2.30pm (WST)

For those attending in-person in Perth, at the conclusion of the live presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to network with fellow Perth-based regulators over a refreshment and attend a face-to-face workshop with Jodi Goodall who will offer an interactive platform to explore these ideas and practices in greater depth, encouraging collaboration and idea-sharing among participants.

In-person Agenda (WST)

• 10.30am – Arrival (to commence promptly at 11.00am)
• 11.00am – 12.00pm – Live stream presentation commences
• 12.00pm – 12.30pm – Networking with the WA NRCoP Chapter members and Perth-based regulators
• 12.30pm – 2.30pm – Face-to-face workshop with Jodi Goodall

** Western Standard Time (WST)

*** In person capacity capped at 50 people