Abstract
A systems-based incident reporting system for understanding and preventing injury in outdoor recreation
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol.22(Supplement 2), pp.S65-S65
2019
Abstract
Introduction: Since 2014, Led Outdoor Activity (LOA) organisations across Australia have been contributing injury incident data to UPLOADS (Understanding and Preventing Led Outdoor Accidents Data System) to understand injury causation. UPLOADS is an incident reporting and learning system developed to ensure that contributing factors to injury, and the relationships between them are reliably identified across six systemic levels of the LOA system including governance and regulatory levels through to the individual and environment. The method is underpinned by a systems-theory model of accident causation and provides a classification scheme for coding the qualitative descriptions of incidents and a framework for representing the contributory factors identified. 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 study is to present an analysis of injury incidents with a specific focus on the contributory factors and relationships that were identified.
Methods: Injury data was collected from the UPLOADS National incident dataset (NID) across a three-year period between the 01 June 2014 and the 31 May 2017. A total of 35 organisations from across Australia contributed to the UPLOADS NID. The analysis utilised 20 different classifications of activities, and injuries were normalised to represent the injuries per 1000 participants. The contributory factors and relationships are presented using the accident analysis method AcciMap. AcciMaps provide a summary of the network of contributing factors and their relationships between identified in the injury incidents.
Results: In total, 1367 injuries across the 20 different activities were reported over the three-year period, with an injury rate of 1.9 injuries per 1000 participants. A total of 2234 contributory factors were identified from the injury incidence reports. There was a total of 361 relationships identified between contributory factors.
Discussion: The implication of presenting the contributory factors and the relationships between them is to demonstrate that the entire LOA system contributes to injury incidents. Based on these findings, it is argued that injury prevention interventions and countermeasures should focus on the entire LOA system and seek optimal points of leverage rather than attempt to redress individual risk- taking behaviours and error. The benefit of a systems-based accident analysis method to obtain a better understanding of the contributory factors and their relationships to sports injury is discussed and future recommendations proposed.
Details
- Title
- A systems-based incident reporting system for understanding and preventing injury in outdoor recreation
- Authors
- Scott McLean (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Systems ScienceNatassia Goode (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Systems ScienceL Coventon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, QueenslandC Finch (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityPaul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science
- Publication details
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol.22(Supplement 2), pp.S65-S65
- Publisher
- Elsevier Australia
- Date published
- 2019
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jsams.2019.08.269
- ISSN
- 1440-2440; 1440-2440
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; External
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99513786502621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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