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UPLOADS Project: Summary Report June 2016 – May 2017

“The UPLOADS Project has been growing and evolving since inception 8 years ago, when industry stakeholders recognised a need to tackle issues around incident reporting and injury causation in the led outdoor activity (LOA) sector in Australia. The UPLOADS incident reporting form allows LOA providers to collect essential incident details which go beyond standard reports and the UPLOADS accident analysis method allows practitioners to apply systems thinking to analyse their incidents. Using a systems-theory model of accident causation (Rasmussen, 1997), the UPLOADS method provides a contributing factor classification scheme and a mapping framework. This method provides the tools necessary to identify the factors contributing to incidents in the led outdoors, as well as the systemic relationships between them. This approach ensures that all epidemiological data reporting the rate and type of incidents is accompanied by detailed analyses of the contributing factors involved.

The aim of this report is to present the findings from the UPLOADS National Incident Dataset for the period from the 1st of June 2016 to 31st May 2017. Thirteen (13) organisations from across Australia contributed incident and participation data using the UPLOADS Software Tool and UPLOADS Lite. Organisations operated in Victoria (n=5), Queensland (n=3), South Australia (n=2), Western Australia (n=1), New South Wales (n=1), and the Australian Capital Territory (n=1). In total, 509 incidents were reported over the 12-month period including: 340 injury-related incidents; 145 illness-related incidents; 23 near miss incidents; and 19 incidents involving social or psychological outcomes. Participation data was also provided by each organisation. This report presents the findings from analyses of the injury, illness, and near miss incidents…”