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1.2 Data sources 1.2.1 Marine Incident Reporting (MIR) Incident reports are made in accordance with Section 65 (cc) of the Marine Act 1988. This report covers data on all marine incidents recorded using the Marine Incident Reporting (MIR) process from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. The analyses are based on fiscal years to ensure that incidents recorded in each summer boating season are counted in a single reporting year. The data recorded using the MIR system conforms to the nationally agreed dataset established by the National Marine Safety Committee in 1998. As defined by the National Marine Safety Data Collection Reference Manual 1998, a marine incident is an ‘event causing or involving any of the following: • death of, or serious injury to, any person on board a vessel, or caused by a vessel; • loss of a person from a vessel; • abandonment, loss or presumed loss of a vessel; • collision of a vessel with another vessel or an object; • grounding, sinking, flooding or capsizing of a vessel; • fire or explosion on board a vessel; or • structural failure of a vessel. It is important to note that incident reports are generated only when an incident is notified to the Water Police or to another designated emergency response organisation. If outside assistance is not required then there is no legal requirement to report the incident. Therefore, many marine incidents are unlikely to be reported and recorded using the MIR process. Examples of incidents that are not usually reported are: • incidents at registered yacht club events where rescues are performed by the yacht club itself; • incidents where a passing (usually recreational) vessel has provided assistance; and • some categories of recreational incidents (e.g. waterskiing incidents) where the vessel occupants provide direct assistance. Some reported incidents that occur in a marine setting are out of scope and are therefore excluded from the MIR process such as incidents involving: • swimmers in distress (except ‘swim to shores’ from a marine vessel); • suicides; and • surf board and surf ski riders. The MIR process divides incidents into two categories: ‘response only’ incidents and ‘serious’ incidents. ‘Serious’ incidents conform to the definition of a marine incident in the national reference manual and include: • Incidents resulting in hospital treatment (recently expanded to include emergency department presentations in Victoria) • Collision 12
• Grounding • Capsizing • Sinking • Flooding • Loss/presumed loss of vessel • Loss of stability • Fire • Explosion • Person overboard • Onboard incident • Other personal injury • Close quarters ‘Response only’ incidents are incidents that generate an emergency response and are covered by the MIR process but do not conform to the definition of a marine incident in the national reference manual. A more restricted definition of ‘response only’ incidents was adopted for this report (see section 2.2) that only includes: • Vessel disablements; and • Persons in trouble. Because the MIR system is limited to incidents requiring emergency response, other Victorian injury surveillance datasets were interrogated to identify additional boating-related injuries. 1.2.2 Victorian injury surveillance datasets In the injury surveillance field the term ‘boating-related injury’ is used for injuries involving water craft that occur in the marine setting. This term is used in preference to ‘marine incident’ as injuries associated with marine animals have also been classified as ‘marine incidents’ in reports prepared by MUARC (Ashby and Cassell, 2004). For consistency ‘marine incident’ will be used when referring to cases captured by the MIR system, whereas boating-related injury will be used when referring to cases included in injury surveillance datasets. 1.2.2.1 Victorian coronial data Data on fatal boating-related incidents investigated by the Victorian Coroner within the period July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006 were sourced from the Victorian office of the National Coroners Information System. 1.2.2.2 Hospital admissions data Hospital admissions data for 2006/7 were extracted from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED). The VAED covers all Victorian hospitals, both public and private. VAED data are classified using the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding system. Data for the study period (July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007) are coded to ICD version 10, Australian Modification (AM). This year Marine Safety in Victoria: July 2007 to June 2008 13
Page 1 and 2: Marine Safety in Victoria July 2007
Page 3: Contents Summary 6 1. Introduction
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Page 22 and 23: There were no recorded commercial v
Page 24 and 25: 3.3.4 Vessel occupant details, PFD
Page 26 and 27: 3.3.7 Contributory factors to ‘se
Page 28 and 29: 3.4.1 Hospital admissions (n=4) The
Page 30 and 31: 4.5 Type of water and environmental
Page 32 and 33: 5.2 Response only incidents (n=926)
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Page 38 and 39: Table 7 Recreational vessel ‘seri
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Page 42 and 43: Table 10 Recreational ‘serious in
Page 44 and 45: 5.4 Fatalities and hospital-treated
Page 46 and 47: Table 12 Pattern of hospital-treate
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Page 50 and 51: Table 13 Recreational boating-relat
Page 52 and 53: Table 14 Provisional ranking of boa
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7 References Ashby K, Cassell E. (2
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