Most incidents that could have prevented a serious injury never make it into a report. Drawing on data from Australian workplaces and on the science of why our brains default to staying quiet, this session examines what’s really behind that silence: fear of repercussions, psychosocial hazards, and practical barriers like language, connectivity, and difficulty writing a report at all. It looks at where AI genuinely lowers these barriers, and where technology alone can’t substitute for trust. An evidence-based look at what it actually takes to hear about the near misses before they become something worse.