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Two types of Incident exist – Reportable and Recordable.
Reportable (Pink Pages in Incident Book)
Reportable Incidents are incidents, which involves injury and/or serious damage to equipment. The Water Safety
Advisor must be informed.
Clubs are obliged to report ALL accidents and serious incidents to their Regional Safety Adviser, copied to the ARA and
locally LANT. This is to offer assistance and advice as well as to log the report on the National Database.
Failing to report accidents can have large repercussions. The lack of written evidence when someone is hurt in another
accident, or suffers reaction a few days after an accident, does little to support the club's claims of efficiency, and little
to dispel thoughts of negligence.
Reports should contain:
Reports should be filled in as soon as practical after the event, certainly within 24 hours. Copies should be kept for at
least four years.
Recordable (Blue Pages in Incident Book)
All other incidents where injury or damage does not occur, eg near misses or coming together, STF, Capsizes etc. These
must be reported in the Incident book so any trends and hazards maybe removed before they become Reportable.
Incident Log Book
All clubs have been issued with an Incident Log Book.
Reportable (Pink Pages in Incident Book)
Reportable Incidents are incidents, which involves injury and/or serious damage to equipment. The Water Safety
Advisor must be informed.
Clubs are obliged to report ALL accidents and serious incidents to their Regional Safety Adviser, copied to the ARA and
locally LANT. This is to offer assistance and advice as well as to log the report on the National Database.
Failing to report accidents can have large repercussions. The lack of written evidence when someone is hurt in another
accident, or suffers reaction a few days after an accident, does little to support the club's claims of efficiency, and little
to dispel thoughts of negligence.
Reports should contain:
- A detailed summary of the incident, including date, time, names of boats and crew members, and light, wind and
stream conditions. - A sketch, showing boats, obstructions, direction of travel and stream.
- A statement by witnesses, by those involved, in other boats or on the bank.
- The signature, dated and timed of the person making the report.
- If the accident requires first aid treatment, the name of the first aider should also be recorded, and the
treatment given.
Reports should be filled in as soon as practical after the event, certainly within 24 hours. Copies should be kept for at
least four years.
Recordable (Blue Pages in Incident Book)
All other incidents where injury or damage does not occur, eg near misses or coming together, STF, Capsizes etc. These
must be reported in the Incident book so any trends and hazards maybe removed before they become Reportable.
Incident Log Book
All clubs have been issued with an Incident Log Book.
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