Journal article

End-user experiences with two incident and injury reporting systems designed for led outdoor activities - Challenges for implementation of future data systems

CF Finch, N Goode, L Shaw, PM Salmon

Injury Epidemiology | BMC | Published : 2019

Abstract

Background: Injury and incident (near miss) prevention is heavily dependent upon robust and high-quality data systems. Evaluations of surveillance systems designed to report factors associated with incidents and injuries are essential to understand their value, as well as to improve their performance and efficiency. Despite, this there have been few such evaluations published in the peer-review literature. Methods: The attitudes and experiences of industry representatives who used one of two variants of an incident and injury surveillance system to collect injury and incident data for the led outdoor activity setting were obtained through an online self-report survey following a 12-month tri..

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Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This project was supported by Linkage Project funding from the Australia Research Council (ARC) in partnership with Australian Camps Association, Outdoor Council of Australia, The Outdoor Education Group, Sport and Recreation Victoria, Victorian YMCA Accommodation Services Pty Ltd., Outdoors Victoria, Outdoor Recreation Industry Council (Outdoors NSW), Outdoors WA, Outdoors South Australia, Queensland Outdoor Recreation Federation, Wilderness Escape Outdoor Adventures, Venture Corporate Recharge, and Christian Venues Association (LP110100037). PS's contribution was funded through his current Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT140100681). NG's contribution was funded through the University of the Sunshine Coast. LS was employed through the ARC Linkage Grant for this work.