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Learn: Five Minute VERs

Have you ever had a near miss that you want to share to protect others you work with on the line? Learn how to recreate and share that near miss or event here. Five minute Video Event Reports (VERs) is a course that will teach you how to recreate videos of high value events or near misses. You can use your VERs to help everyone you work with in field operations to be able to recoginze existing patterns of traps (latent organizati onal weaknesses) and avoid those traps.

Lesson 01 VERs - Wow, That Could Happen to Me

Wow, That Could Happen to Me Lesson 01 VERs - Five Minute Video Event Reports What is a Video Event Report (VER)? The course begins with a definition of the golden rule of making a VER: "Wow, that could happen to me". The goal of making a VER is to get every person who could of have or might someday be in the same situation to watch the recreated VER and say: "Wow, that could happen to me".

Lesson 02 VERs - Why? Because Sometimes We are Unknowingly Unsafe

Why? Because Sometimes We are Unknowingly Unsafe Lesson 02 VERs - Five Minute Video Event Reports (VERs) Why? Why bother to go through the trouble of recreating a high value or high frequency event or a near miss in a video? Tom explains that there are times when we are working that we become unknowingly unsafe. Tom shows how sharing self made videos of our experiences with others in the community we work in can increase everyone's self awareness of unknowingly unsafe situations.

Lesson 03 VERs - Discuss the Critical Steps

Discuss the Critical Steps Lesson 03 VERs - Discuss the Critical Steps This lesson uses a real world VER to apply the concepts of the previous lessons. Another principle of making high quality VERs is added: Discuss the critical steps.

Lesson 04 VERs - Fingerprinting the Traps

Fingerprinting the Traps Lesson 04 VERs - Fingerprinting the Traps Using a second example of a real world VER this lesson discusses types of VERs and explores using a library of VERs as a means to provide "pattern recognition" of the latent organizational weaknesses (traps) that exist across the company's field assets.