Near miss

An event in which a hazard occurred but was caught, contained, or otherwise prevented from causing actual harm, such as a robot's obstacle sensor stopping the robot just short of a person who stepped into its path. A near miss is direct evidence that a safeguard functioned; treating it as valuable data rather than an embarrassment encourages the reporting that surfaces design gaps before they cause real harm.

An incident in which a resident recognized and stopped a scam attempt before any money or information was actually lost. A near miss, documented with the same five-element standard as a completed loss, carries real early-warning value for identifying scam patterns actively targeting a facility's residents.

An event that almost caused a data incident but was caught or self-corrected before real harm occurred. Treated in this topic as data as valuable as an actual incident, since it reveals the same underlying gap without the cost of a real one.

An incident in which a checkpoint, control, or human intervention stopped a harmful action before it executed. A near miss still requires a severity tier and a log entry, because it is direct evidence the underlying risk is real.

An event in which the same latent conditions and, often, the same active trigger present in a genuine incident occurred, but no harmful outcome resulted, whether by chance, timing, or a partial safeguard; classified using the same four-category framework as an actual incident because it carries the same diagnostic information.