Background to the UK National Water Safety Forum - WAter Incident Database

1. Water Incident Database (WAID)
Presented by:

2. WAID
 WAter  Central water-related incident
database
 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
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3. Governance
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
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4. Guiding principles (a tour)
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5. WAID management
• BW (chair)
• CFOA WAID Admin • As left
• DFT • Local authorities
• DASA • MCA • Navigation authorities
• RNLI
• MCA • RoSPA
• Sports NGB
• RNLI • User groups (100+)
• Ind. Project lead
• RoSPA
• Water UK Users
Information
Group
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6. The system
 Data Entry
 Match Merge
 Reporting
 Becoming a user
 Accessing data and reports
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7. Data entry
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8. Data entry cont..
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9. Data - ownership and use
• Ownership retained by stakeholder (you)
Stakeholder
data • Same format as all other users: enables quick
(Yours) comparison/reporting
• Core fields and data merged to create new record
• Held in trust by NWSF- for analysis and reporting
Incident data
(NWSF) • Subject to review. Closed after 18 months
• Public reports and closed record sets
Public
Reports
• Annual reports and risk based analysis
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10. Match and Merge
This function is managed by the WAID admin group
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11. Match and Merge cont..
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12. Match and Merge cont..
 All data taken forward
 None is lost!
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13. Merge – no data lost
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14. Incident reports
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15. Reports: 2009 WR fatalities
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16. Reports: Where and what
2009 WRF fatalities
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17. Further information
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
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18. Further information
www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/
ContactUs/Default.aspx
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