Fathom Five2005 Scuba Diver

Safety Awareness Program(SDSAP)

Karen Lassen, Parks CanadaGlen Dunham, Parks CanadaDr. George Harpur, Tobermory Hyperbaric CentreRaimund Krob, Ontario Underwater Council

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The goals of this presentation are to:

a) show you why Fathom Five needs a Scuba Diver Safety Awareness Program (SDSAP)

b) familiarize you with the stakeholders that contributed to the development of the Fathom Five SDSAP

c) show you the major components of the Fathom Five SDSAP and the estimated costs

d) inform you of the approach employed e) invite you to submit any final improvements /

suggestionsf) ask for your approval to proceed and advise you of the

next steps

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Why Fathom Five needs a Scuba Diver Safety Awareness Program

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After a 7-year track record of no fatalities between 1989 and 1995, the annualScuba Diver Fatality Rate-per-2,000 registrations has started an unacceptable upward trend. The goal of the SDSAP is to reverse this trend.

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Fathom Five SDSAP Stakeholders*• Parks Canada (Fathom Five) staff• Dr. George Harpur, Tobermory Hyperbaric Centre• Tobermory Dive Retailers / Charter Operators• Ontario Underwater Council

– Board Members– Retail Members– Instructor Members– Dive Master Members– Club Executive Members– Scuba Diving OUC Members & non-OUC Members

*Stakeholders are all the groups/people that contributed to and/or will benefit from Fathom Five’s 2005 Scuba Diver Safety Awareness Program (SDSAP)

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The 6 “building blocks” of Fathom Five’s SDSAP

1. A completely-revised Scuba Diver Registration form 2. A completely-revised Fathom Five “Diving Guide”

brochure 3. A brand-new Fathom Five “Scuba Diver Safety

Recommendations & Regulations” poster4. A brand-new new Fathom Five “Scuba Diver Fatality

Charts” document5. A brand-new Fathom Five “Scuba Diver Self-

Evaluation Checklist”6. A brand-new Fathom Five “Scuba Diving Sites

Location” document

All SDSAP deliverables feature a common “look & feel”, employconsistent language & terminology, and reinforce (or build) on one-another.

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Estimated Incremental Costs of the SDSAP’s 6 building blocks

1. $200 (assume 5,000 b&w copies @ 4¢ per copy) 2. $0 (assume brochure is being reprinted anyways) 3. $230 (assume $30 for 1 colour 3-foot by 4-foot poster

plus $200 for 5,000 b&w copies @ 4¢ per copy) 4. $0 (assume 1 x 8.5” x 11” colour print)5. $200 (assume 5,000 b&w copies @ 4¢ per copy) 6. $200 (assume 5,000 b&w copies @ 4 ¢ per copy)

Total: $830

These costs are estimates based on the identified assumptions only. Therefore if any of the underlying assumptions change, then so will the costs.

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SDSAP deliverable #1: Revise old Diver Registration form (below)

The old registration card took scuba divers’ names, took their addresses, took their information, and took their money. In exchange, scuba diverswere given little more than a numbered plastic tag.

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SDSAP deliverable #1: New Scuba Diver Registration form (below)

The new (legal-sized) Diver Registration form gives valuable information to scuba divers on how to safely enjoy their visit to Fathom Five. The informationit asks from divers has been made current with the times, and yes, scuba divers are still given that same numbered plastic tag! Please mouse-over the icon to view.

New Diver Registration Form

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SDSAP deliverable #2: Completely-revised “Diving Guide”

brochure • More than 100 updates, featuring:

– Updated Safety recommendations– New “Emergency Contact” numbers– “Caution” symbols for selected sites– Dozens of updates on Dive sites

A soft copy of the completely-revised Fathom Five Diving Guide brochureis currently not available. Please see Fathom Five staff for a hard copy.

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SDSAP deliverable #3: Brand-new Safety Recommendations &

Regulations poster

The proposal is to post this prominently on a wall in the Diver Registration Office, in a 3-foot wide and 4-foot tall format and/or to hand-out in 8.5” x 11” format to registering divers. Please mouse-over to view.

Scuba Diver Safety Recs & Regs

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SDSAP deliverable #4: Scuba Diver Fatality Charts

The proposal is to post this immediately underneath the Safety Recommendations and Regulations poster in an 8.5” x 11” format. Please mouse-over to view.

Scuba Diver Fatality Charts

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SDSAP deliverable #5: Scuba Diver Self-Evaluation Checklist

The proposal is to either post this in 8.5” x 11” format in the Diver Registration office, or to make it available to be handed out to Registering Divers. Mouse-over to view.

Scuba Diver Self-Eval

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SDSAP deliverable #6: Fathom Five Scuba Sites

The proposal is to either post this in 8.5” x 11” format in the Diver Registration office, or make it available to be handed out to Registering Divers as an add-on to the Diver Guide brochure. This will be a VERY popular document. Please Mouse-over to view.

Dive Sites GPS

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The approach that was employed:• Meeting called with Parks Canada Fathom Five Staff Karen Lassen

& Glen Dunham, Dr. George Harpur, and OUC Director of Sport Safety Raimund Krob on 2005-03-20

• All available scuba statistics for Fathom Five, Ontario, and North America were reviewed.

• The team then brainstormed & documented the many ideas• Brainstormed ideas were filtered into 2 categories:

– “immediately actionable” ideas (these had to be inexpensive, easy, & fast), and

– “for future consideration” ideas• The team then executed an attack plan on the “immediately

actionable” ideas, through an iterative, e-mail intensive, rapid-fire authoring-and-peer-review process until completion 8 days later (2005-03-28).

• A final walk-through was conducted on 2005-03-29• Archived “for future consideration” ideas for later

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Next steps…

• Secure your approval to proceed– If you do not approve, please advise why not– Also please advise what you would approve

• Print everything that needs to be printed• Post everything that needs to be posted• Inform / Train Diver Registration Office

Management & Staff• Monitor roll-out closely & feed back to

Parks Canada & OUC.

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Back-up Slide/s

1. Reducing fatalities by applying safety awareness to “Standard Accident Pyramid” theoretical model.

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The “Standard Accident Pyramid” Theoretical Model

1000* Unsafe Acts

100*Minor Injuries

10* Major Injuries

1* Fatality

1. Every 1000* unsafe acts will drive 100* minor injuries2. Every 100* minor injuries will drive 10* major injuries3. Every 10* major injuries will drive 1* fatality.4. To reduce fatalities at the top of the pyramid, reduce the numbers of unsafe acts at the bottom

of the pyramid! 5. To reduce unsafe acts at the bottom of the pyramid, increase safety awareness!6. To increase safety awareness, implement a safety awareness program!

*Note: numbers shown are not representative of Scuba Diving and are shown for illustrative (theoretical) purposes only.