The following survey will help us establish the baseline of our members' views on sharing safety related information. The results of the survey will be shared with IMRF #SaferSAR working group. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

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* 1. What is your organisation?

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* 2. What is your name?

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* 3. What is your position in your organisation?

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* 4. Choose the type of your organisation

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* 5. Can you describe the approximate size of your organisation by answering one or more of the following:

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* 6. Do you collect systematically data from your crews on incidents and accidents?

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* 7. For how many years have you been collecting data like this?

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* 8. How do you collect the data?

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* 9. How many reports do you (roughly) get on average over 1 year?

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* 10. Would you be willing to share with us the taxonomy used in your reporting system?

The taxonomy refers to the categorisation of accident/incident observations, for instance the upper level may consist of 1) Accident; 2) Incident; 3) Deviation; 4) Suggestion for Improvement; 5) Positive Observation. These are then divided into subcategories. If you are willing to share the taxonomy, you can either send it to j.heikkila@imrf.org.uk in the format of your choice, or we can contact you and ask you to fill in an online sheet.

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* 11. If you are willing to share your taxonomy, kindly provide your email address

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* 12. If you don't collect data systematically, do you:

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* 13. How do you analyse the data that you collect?

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* 14. Have you made any changes to the way you operate based on information received? Can you provide some examples?

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* 15. Consider a situation, where based on the information you have received you find that something in your operations has to be changed. Please describe how the process of analysing, deciding and executing such changes would take place in your organisation.

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* 16. Do you report the data or the analysis back to the crews?

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* 17. If you report the data or analysis back to the crews, do you report it to?

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* 18. Do you share the data or the analysis with other organisations?

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* 19. Which organisations do you share the data or the analysis with?

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* 20. Do you receive such data from other organisations? Which organisations?

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* 21. Do you have examples of how the information you have shared has impacted the safety in another organisation? Or examples of how information you have received has improved safety in your organisation?

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* 22. To what extent do you agree with the following claims?

  Fully disagree Somewhat disagree Neither agree or disagree Somewhat agree Fully agree
The maritime industry as a whole has a good culture of sharing safety-related information
My organisation as a whole has a good culture of sharing safety-related information with other organisations
Crews (personnel) in my organisation have a good culture of sharing safety-related information with each other

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* 23. If you think about the past 10 years, has the culture of sharing safety related information in your opinion

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* 24. Can you provide examples of the change to support your view?

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* 25. What, in your opinion, are the key barriers to sharing safety-related information globally?

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* 26. If the IMRF was to establish a system of global safety related information sharing, how do you see the system should work?

  Surely would not work Not likely to work Could possibly work Would definitely work
Information on incidents/accidents should be submitted by anonymous users on a specific website
Information on incidents/accidents should be submitted by organisation representative copying the information from existing reporting system, and it would then be inputted by IMRF staff on the shared system in the required format
Information on incidents/accidents should be actively sought for by IMRF personnel from public sources
The system should work by sharing the source data itself to allow for instance classification
The system should work by sharing only the analysis of the data

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* 27. If the IMRF was to establish a system of global safety related information sharing, what kind of incidents/accidents should be shared

  Should definitely not be shared Probably should not be shared Could be shared Should definitely be shared
Those relating to mild injury of crewmember
Those relating to serious injury or death of crewmember
Those relating to mild injury of assisted persons
Those relating to serious injury or death of assisted persons
Those relating to mild damage to rescue vessels or equipment
Those relating to serious damage or destruction of rescue vessels or equipment
Those relating to mild damage to assisted vessels or other property
Those relating to serious damage or destruction of assisted vessels or other property
Those causing environmental damage

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* 28. After the shared data has been analysed, how should the results be shared within the SAR community

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* 29. To what extent do you agree with the following claims?

  Fully disagree Somewhat disagree Neither agree or disagree Somewhat agree Fully agree
It is possible to design a functioning global system for sharing safety-related information
A global system for sharing safety-related information would improve safety in my organisation
A global system for sharing safety-related information would improve safety generally in the SAR community

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* 30. Do you have any other comments regarding sharing safety related information or accident/incident reporting systems? If so, please write them below.

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