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Annual Report Observatory for Water Accidents In Issue 1 – 2021 ANNUAL REPORT OBSERVATORY With the support of the FOR WATER British Embassy ACCIDENTS IN GREECE 2 3 4 5 Safe Water Sports is a non-profit organisation This activity is aligned to the directives of the that was established in 2015 aiming primarily to World Health Organisation (WHO), which has support safety in water, water-related sports recommended that every country produces a and recreational activities. It is a purely vol- National Plan for safety in the water. untary initiative that is supported exclusively The plan of our Organisation includes actions by the private sector and the wider public (it that aim to: receives no state funding). The Organisation is support all related state actors to be more currently active in Greece and Cyprus, having organised and effective in their work, increasing signed cooperation agreements with institu- water safety tions in both these countries. In addition to help professionals and companies that work working together with private companies, it co- in the water to improve their organisation and operates with wider public bodies, professional practices, so that safety is always the over-arch- associations and other organizations. ing priority The main objective of SWS is to increase the contribute to the change in attitudes and be- safety of activities in and around the water and haviours of citizens, so that they become more reduce the risks of drowning. active and more involved, each in their own way, The Organisation aims to develop its strategy to the common effort that will benefit us all. in other countries as well, in cooperation with local public benefit or state organizations and Today, the main pillars of activity of our Organi- NGOs, as it firmly believes that international co- sation are: operation, research and best practice exchange Legal and organisational initiatives for the will help in reducing human loss and accidents support of the wider institutional framework in the water, the sea and water-related sports connected to water safety and recreational activities. Supporting the state for the improvement of The Organisation has created the Obser- monitoring the implementation of water safety vatory for Water Accidents in Greece, which rules collects and processes relevant data. This Informing and raising public awareness of information helps us to clarify the causes and water safety, through multi-level informative conditions under which these accidents take activities place. Educating children and young people at Statistics and numbers related to drownings schools and fatal accidents in the water are a cause of Certifying water sports companies (in coop- great concern, especially if we take into con- eration with the TUV Austria Hellas) with the sideration that they are largely preventable. “certified quality” standard. The Organisation is fighting for a reduction in Apart from supporting water safety and pre- the number of people who lose their life every venting accidents, the Organisation has wider year in the water, by supporting and improving developmental aims. These are connected to the institutional framework and by helping to tourism, as we can significantly contribute in change the behaviours of citizens and profes- upgrading the country’s image abroad, for the sionals, so that everyone can enjoy the water multitude of foreign visitors that choose to with safety and trust. come to Greece for their holidays every year. SAFE WATER SPORTS: OBJECTIVES SAFE WATER Be informed. Check. Be careful. Enjoy. 6 7 The Organisation is currently active in Greece Legislative Work developed aim at the consolidation of water the aegis of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and and Cyprus and its main actions are the Safe Water Sports makes recommendations, safety rules. It addresses students of all Insular Policy, the Hellenic Coast Guard and the following: participates and contributes to actions that grades and includes modern educational support of the Ministry of Health. pertain to the modernisation of the wider material, such as videos, animations, quizzes, institutional framework regarding water all included in a specially designed case. Every safety. Up to now, three important legislative year, about 40,000 children participate in the initiatives [instituting the National Day for Organisation’s educational activities. Prevention of Drownings and Sea Accidents (N. 4597/28-2-2019), Presidential Decree 71/2020 for the functioning of lifeguarding Information E-Platform schools and lifeguard cover of beaches and The Safe Water Sports e-platform, available General Regulation No. 20 (for sea sports online (www.safewatersports.com) and through and recreations)] have come into force with free apps (Safe Water Sports app) for mobile the participation and contribution of the devices (available in Greek, English and Organisation. French), include information in Greece and Cyprus on: 3.400+ beaches for swimming and all their features, Integrated Information System of Audits and legal water sports businesses Inspections marinas Safe Water Sports has provided free of charge recreation boat rentals to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular certified water sports businesses Policy of Greece and to the Port Police of hospitals, port authorities and Cyprus an innovative “Integrated Information current safety regulations for every water System of Audits and Inspections”. sport. Through this Information System, port Certifying Water Sport Companies authorities can now manage digitally all the The Organisation and TUV AUSTRIA HELLAS licences of companies and professionals (water (an independent organisation of audit and sports companies, day cruisers, lifeguard inspection) have created a Private Certifying cover of beaches etc). They can run regular Standard for Water Sports Companies. The inspections and audits with portable devices certification is based on the existence and and a special app, monitor infringements and implementation of specified safety requirements. fines imposed, check the performance of port Educational Programme The companies that fulfil those requirements authorities and identify possible gaps in the Safe Water Sports has designed a prototype are provided with the “Watersports certified inspections. training programme for state primary and quality” Quality Standard. 40 companies have secondary education, which has received the been certified so far and it is expected that there sanction of the Greek and Cypriot Ministries is going to be further uptake of this Standard Observatory for Accidents of Education, and was first presented in nationwide. The Organisation has established 2018, under the aegis of the President of the in cooperation with the state the Republic. “OBSERVATORY FOR ACCIDENTS”, which Since 2020, the training programme for Collaborations with Local Governments allows for the accurate recording of data primary education has been included in The Organisation is working together with local related to drownings and accidents at sea platform 21 of the Institute for Education Policy governments on two main strands of activity: and internal waters (pools, lakes, rivers, etc) and has become part of the national curriculum Information campaigns for the older Placement of information signage for safety in cooperation with the Hellenic Coast Guard across the country. generation at the beach and in the sea. We have helped and the Hellenic Police respectively. The Parallelly, in cooperation with the Hellenic The Organisation runs a large number of put up such signs in more than 500 beaches. Organisation has undertaken the statistical Coast Guard – Directorate of Port Police, the information campaigns for the older generation Info-kiosks: In the summer months these analysis of data of the Observatory, in order Organisation is implementing a programme of about the dangers that exist and the safety kiosks are set up at beaches and offer to plan the national policy for supporting school presentations named “I AM CAREFUL – measures they need to take when they are entertainment and information activities to prevention activities aiming at the continuous I LEARN – I CARE” undertaking activities in the water. children on how to be safe when at the sea and reduction of the loss of life. The educational activities that we have The programme has been designed under while doing water sports. SAFE WATER SPORTS: ACTIVITIES SAFE WATER 8 9 CONTENTS page UNIT A 19 Analysis of accidents in 2020 page Chapter 1 21 Accidents at sea involving recreation activities OPEN INVITATION FOR ACTION page Safe Water Sports Non-Profit Organisation created in 2019 the “Observatory of Accidents”, Chapter 2 which, in cooperation with the Hellenic Coast Guard οf the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy and the Hellenic Police of the Ministry of Citizen Protection, collects, processes Accidents involving water sports and means of recreation and analyses data related to the loss of life and injury in water (both at sea and internal waters). 35 The present study is the first systematic effort for recording and processing the data from the Observatory of Accidents for the year 2020 and comparing these with data from the peri- page od of time between 2017 and 2019, when the Observatory first started its records. Chapter 3 This study is also a “call for action” for our present and future partners, so that we can unite Lifeguard cover our forces in a common national action plan aiming at preventing fatal and non-fatal accidents 41 in the water. Everyone’s cooperation
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