0 a situation in which something almost hits something else:
1 an attempt to do or achieve something that fails although it almost succeeds
No indication of a cut-off value for what is considered a near miss was given.
Reporting and preventing medical mishaps: lessons from non-medical near miss reporting systems.
One particular type of near miss logged was the incorrect creation of a volume matrix.
The next most common near miss is using the wrong tray factor, with a corresponding rate of 13.3 per 1000.
Having come through this rite of passage relatively unscathed, it treated the incident as a near miss, a bad accident that could have been much worse.
However, the difference between a near miss and total disaster is sometimes slight.
What definition is set out of what a near miss means?
It was a near miss, as he put it; a fantasy.
