Unpublished AIChE shall not be responsible for statements or opinions contained in papers or printed in its publications. 2 ABSTRACT This article discusses the elements of the Near-Miss process and its implementation as a tool for integrated safety, health, environment and security management. A corporate structure for near-miss application is recommended. Linking elements of the near-miss syst...

The class imbalance is a major issue in classification, i.e., the sample size of rare (positive) often performance bottleneck. In real-world situations, however, “near-miss” positive instances, negative but nearly-positive are sometimes plentiful. For example, natural disasters such as floods rare, while there relatively plentiful near-miss cases where actual did not occur water level approache...