Water Incident Database (WAID)

Presented by:

WAID

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WAter

Incident

Database

Central water-related incident database

Merges identical/overlapping data to create one national (UK) incident record

Data can be provided and used by relevant agencies

Capture, analysis and reporting tool for local and national issues

Governance

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Natural body in which

organisations involved in

water safety will

participate in order to have

a strong voice with

Government on water

safety issues ...

‘One stop shop’ for water safety.

Follows DFT 2002 review

Links to UKSAR & MSCC

Guiding principles (a tour)

Working together for water safetywww.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/about/principles.asp

WAID management

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• BW (chair)

• CFOA

• DFT

• DASA

• MCA

• RNLI

• RoSPA

• Water UKInformation

Group

• MCA

• RNLI

• RoSPA

• Ind. Project lead

WAID Admin• As left

• Local authorities

• Navigation authorities

• Sports NGB

• User groups (100+)

Users

The system

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Data Entry

Match Merge

Reporting

Becoming a user

Accessing data and reports

Data entry

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Data entry cont..

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Data - ownership and use

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Stakeholder data

(Yours)

• Ownership retained by stakeholder (you)• Same format as all other users: enables quick comparison/reporting

Incident data (NWSF)

• Core fields and data merged to create new record

• Held in trust by NWSF- for analysis and reporting

• Subject to review. Closed after 18 months

Public Reports

• Public reports and closed record sets

• Annual reports and risk based analysis

Match and Merge

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This function is managed by the WAID admin group

Match and Merge cont..

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Match and Merge cont..

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All data taken forward

None is lost!

Merge – no data lost

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Incident reports

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Reports: 2009 WR fatalities

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Reports: Where and what

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2009 WRF fatalities

Further information

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National Water Safety Forum

About us: http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/about/index.asp

WAID

General background : http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/waid/index.asp

Stakeholder manual: http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/member/projects/info/wg0909_waid1.pdf

Taxonomy and data-flows: http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/member/projects/info/wg0510_waid3.pdf

Inception report: http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/member/projects/info/wg1210_waid5.pdf

Reports: http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/waid/reports.asp

Further information

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www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/

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