The UPLOADS App now has an Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used to connect data from existing software applications (e.g. CareMonkey) with an UPLOADS Account.  We hope that this feature can help organisations with established incident management and learning systems contribute data to the UPLOADS Research Project. 

For example, you may have a booking system that records information about the programs run by your organisation, including the dates and location of the program, the activities conducted, and the number of people participating in the activities.  You can setup an API integration to draw information from the booking system to generate Participation Data in the UPLOADS App.

Setting up an integration with the UPLOADS API requires the expertise of an IT Professional.  If you would like to register an UPLOADS Account, please click here.

The UPLOADS Team would like to thank The Outdoor Education Group for sponsoring these enhancements and making the UPLOADS App even more user-friendly.

The latest infographic from the UPLOADS Team demonstrates that incidents reported to UPLOADS differ regarding activity type, incident type, and incident severity as a function of organisation size.

Click here to view the infographic and see how your organisation stacks up against the UPLOADS National Incident Dataset.

Data reported via the UPLOADS App helps your organisation objectively understand incident frequency and causation, identify trends, and implement action plans to improve safety.

High quality data is critical to support appropriate safety management activities. Here are a some tips to improve data quality!

Workshop Information

Join us for a full day workshop where you will learn how to translate the data collected through the UPLOADS App into incident prevention strategies.

Professor Paul Salmon and Dr Scott McLean will introduce you to PrIMe (Preventing Incidents Method), which is a quick and simple process used to identify incident prevention strategies and ‘Action Plans’ that support the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the incident prevention strategies produced.

Who should attend?

Organisations registered to use the UPLOADS App are welcome, and we encourage staff members who are involved safety management and the development of safety interventions to attend.

Workshop Details

Cost: Free
Date: July 31, 2019
Time: 9.30am (9.15am registration) to 4pm
Catering: Morning tea and lunch will be provided
Venue: 9 Lakeside Drive, Tally Ho Business Park, Burwood East

How do I RSVP?

Click here to RSVP

What is PrIMe?

The UPLOADS Preventing Incidents Method (PrIMe) is a quick and simple 8 step process organisations can use to translate the data collected through the UPLOADS App into incident prevention strategies.

The process requires members from all levels of the organisation hierarchy to work together to identify incident prevention strategies and ‘Action Plans’ that will support the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the incident prevention strategies produced.

How is PrIMe different to other Incident Investigation Processes?

PrIMe uses a System’s Thinking approach to drive the strategy design process.  This involves the group agreeing on the issue that requires strategy development; and agreeing that the strategy development process will align with the following principles:

• No blame. Strategies will not focus on individuals in the system or assign any blame or fault for the issue to specific individuals.
• Systemic change. Strategies will focus on modifying the overall led outdoor activity system, rather than modifying parts in isolation.
• A shared responsibility for safety. When developing strategies, the group will think about the led outdoor activity system and all actors/organisations who share the responsibility for safety, rather than individual components such as activity leaders, participants or equipment.

How can PrIMe help make led outdoor activities even safer for the wider community?

Organisations will be invited to share their Action Plans with the National Incident Dataset (NID) via the UPLOADS App.

When all organisations across Australia submit their de-identified Action Plans to the NID, the research team will be able to report the successful strategies that have been to prevent incidents.

We hope that by sharing this information, we will be able to make outdoor activities even safer for you, and the wider community!

Can my organisation use PrIMe?

At this stage, PrIMe is only available to Led Outdoor Activity Providers who have registered to use the UPLOADS App, as the process requires the use of data collected through the UPLOADS Incident Reporting System.  If you would like to register to use the UPLOADS App, click here.

If your organisation has registered to use the UPLOADS App, please register your interest in using PrIMe here.

After an incredibly busy six months for the project team, and our new UPLOADS App users; we are very pleased to provide you with the first of what will be quarterly infographic reports, presenting a snapshot of the analysis of data from the new app.

After a review of the initial data, walking/running incidents were the most frequently reported incidents so we have focused primarily on those, and split by gender, incident type and the factors and relationships contributing to incidents.

National Incident Database (NID)

When Led Outdoor Activity Providers contribute incident and participation data to the NID, it forms a repository of information about incident rates and the network of contributory factors involved in incident causation.

56 providers from across Australia have been contributing data to the NID, via the UPLOADS App since September 2018.  For an overview of the data collected to date, click here.

Benchmarking

From April 1, 2019, UPLOADS App users will be able to benchmark their organisation’s incident data to the National Incident Dataset. This feature can support the development of incident prevention strategies in response to issues identified within the organisation and the wider sector.

To contribute valuable information to the National Incident Dataset and use the Benchmarking feature, click here and register your organisation to use the UPLOADS App!

Several enhancements have been made to the “Custom Fields” function to help streamline data entry and data quality.

Enhancements include a Custom Field to collect information about treatments administered to injured or ill persons (e.g. time/date, type, dosage, administered by, and reason for administration).

To find out what’s new…  Click here.

The UPLOADS Team would like to thank The Outdoor Education Group for sponsoring these enhancements and making the UPLOADS App even more user-friendly.

Register to use the UPLOADS App here.
Do you already have an established incident reporting system, but still want to contribute to the UPLOADS Research Project? No worries, click here to find out how.

How can we contribute?

Many organisations that conduct Led Outdoor Activities (LOA) already have established incident reporting systems and do not want to use the UPLOADS App.  We would like to invite these organisations to contribute information that will allow the research team to evaluate the safety benefits of using the UPLOADS App.

What type of information is required?

• Incident reports collected by your organisation (near misses; injuries; illnesses; psychosocial, e.g. emotional or psychological; equipment damage; environmental damage; and missing or overdue people)
• Information about the programs run by your organisation (i.e. participation data):
  • Types of activities run on program and the number of participants partaking in the activities;
  • Number of people involved in the program (including participants, leaders, supervisors, and support); and
  • The age and gender of participants on program.
• Information about the strategies used by your organisation to prevent incidents.

If your organisation does not collect some of the information, that is ok!  We will collect what is available.   

What about privacy and confidentiality?

To ensure your organisation’s confidentiality, and the privacy of individual’s information:

• Your data will be aggregated with other data collected.
• The research team will ensure that all identifiable information (including names of people, places, and organisations) is removed.
• No individuals or organisations will be identifiable from any publications, case study analyses, or reports produced by the research team.

How do we get involved?

Register your interest here.