Vehicle
Recurring vehicle incidents
Backing contact, mirror strikes and low-speed collisions that keep happening, to different people, in places that are not obviously dangerous.
What the record usually shows
- A count of vehicle incidents by month, and a fault determination on each one.
- A driver name on every record, which makes the pattern look like a training question.
- A location field that is often the facility rather than the maneuver.
What it hides
- Whether a second set of eyes was available, which is rarely a field and almost always in the narrative.
- What the crew was doing in the minutes before — a handover finishing, a call running long, a return to service pending.
- That the same condition is recorded under several names, so the most common one is counted as several smaller ones.
Which sheet surfaces it
The map
It partitions by where the work happened rather than by who was driving, which is what separates a maneuver problem from a person problem.
What to ask before you act
- Can you say how often a spotter was available, as opposed to how often one was recorded?
- Does the same condition appear under more than one label in your factor list?
- Is the concentration in one location, or does it cross several?
These are questions, not findings. Whether any control changes anything is settled by what happens next, not by the analysis that suggested it.