Challenge
Near misses are one of the most ‘creatively’ reported areas of construction. Reporting expectations mean zero near misses look suspicious, so teams either invent low-impact incidents to tick the box or under-report genuine risks.
Traditional safety culture relies heavily on toolbox talks and spot checks, but with pressure to keep work moving, corners get cut. With the increased use of plant-mounted cameras and site-wide computer vision, a concerning picture is emerging. People routinely standing too close to machinery or working in unsafe zones on every construction site, every day.
We’ve all seen it – excavators rolling past workers standing less than half a metre away, a contractor stepping in the path of a spill truck. It’s standard for dozens, if not hundreds, of near misses a day on any given site.
The reality: the risk isn’t theoretical. It’s visible, constant and largely unreported.
Risk
Serious injury or death becomes a matter of when, not if, when near-miss reporting is inaccurate or ignored.
If an incident occurs and technology existed that could have detected or reduced the risk, regulators may argue the constructor had the opportunity to act and didn’t. The Victorian Government recently warned that these situations can escalate to manslaughter charges.
There’s also cultural fallout. When operators feel watched rather than supported, they resist reporting, bypass systems or avoid engagement altogether. Leadership ends up making decisions based on partial, inaccurate or entirely fabricated safety data.
Without a defensible, machine-driven picture of what’s happening on site, construction teams carry operational, legal and reputational exposure every day.
Solution
Perspio™ brings together alerts, plant telemetry and site data to give constructors a real, defensible understanding of near-miss activity.
Near misses are automatically captured and categorised, showing patterns by area, contractor, time of day or type of activity. When thresholds are exceeded, Perspio™ can trigger reviews or prompt targeted interventions.
These insights feed directly into toolbox talks, replacing generic safety messages with real examples from the site. Leadership can see where risk is trending, track improvements over time and support cultural change with clear, unbiased evidence.
By shifting from manual, invented reports to machine-verified events, Perspio™ turns near-miss reporting into a tool for prevention, not paperwork and data you can act on. Speak with the team.
