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Project Overview
Surf Life Saving Australia iRisk App provides commercial risk management services to local government in mitigating coastal public safety risk.
SLSA required a groundbreaking enterprise tool for this purpose that revolutionises this service.
The iRisk app allows for the rapid collection of data and instant reporting, as well as validating and updating data contained in a database.
This is the first app of its kind to be developed. As such they are part of Surf Life Saving Australia’s world leading approach to risk management and coastal public safety risk assessment services.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Team
Julian Robertshawe
Project Brief
Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) has been providing commercial coastal public safety risk management services to organisations (i.e. Local Government) for more than a decade.
Traditionally, these assessments have involved complex paper based forms and there has been a wide variation in the quality of assessment being produced.
With advances in smartphone and tablet technology SLSA saw an opportunity. Smartphones have become commonplace and the capability and power of these devices increased significantly in a very short period of time.
Features that once required multiple pieces of technology were now available in a single handheld device. Features such as:
Gigabytes of storage
Fast processors
Digital still and video camera
GPS receivers
Voice recorders
High speed internet connectivity
Business intelligence gathered in the field is seamlessly shared between devices
On and offline mode
Decisionmakers easily understood the potential of using such an application to improve productivity and significantly enhance the quality of data and speed of delivery.
The result
This tool has revolutionised the way in which Surf Life Saving Australia provides risk management services to help land managers address risk and save lives along the coastlines for which they are responsible.
The iRisk app has been designed to allow more risk assessments to be completed with greater detail, accuracy and efficiency, making the process accessible to more people at a fraction of the cost of other solutions available.
It has resulted in a 3x increase in efficiency.
Project Innovation / Need
The SLSA iRisk application is used to guide those who make decisions affecting public safety in the coastal aquatic environment. As a result, the outputs of this tool, provides the vital supporting evidence to implement necessary awareness programs in the community.
Surf Life Saving Australia iRisk app collects enormous amounts of information about the area being assessed. This information is then used to compile a report that identifies hazards, evaluates risk and recommends risk mitigation strategies to land managers.
Assessors in the field traditionally have needed multiple items of equipment to complete the task, such as, dictaphones, cameras, handheld GPS receivers, notebooks and pencils. In dangerous environments this can be a lot of equipment to carry around. It has also been time consuming switching between equipment and recording all the information required on paper. Once this information has been collected there was then the task of compiling a report that often took weeks to complete depending on the size of the area being assessed.
The iRisk app has been designed to allow more risk assessments to be completed with greater detail, accuracy and efficiency, making the process accessible to more people at a fraction of the cost of other solutions available.
This is the first app of its kind to be developed. As such, its world leading approach to risk management and coastal public safety risk assessment services.
International organisations are already discussing how this application may be adapted to their environments.
User Experience
The Surf Life Saving Australia iRisk app assists coastal land managers by providing coastal public safety risk management services, to help meet their public safety duty of care requirements. Some of those in field services include:
Determine the minimum acceptable level of risks and potential injuries at the location through completion of a risk assessment in accordance with recognised guidelines, standards and best practice;
Provide economically sustainable risk mitigation options;
Provide recommended staging plans considering the environmental conditions, forecast settlement areas, beach access and usage;
Review the status of aquatic safety and signage management;
Evaluate the level of compliance or non-compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
Assessments include reference to:
The Australian Beach Safety and Management Program
The Australian Coastal Public Safety Guidelines
Beaches of Australian coast – A guide to their nature, characteristics, surf and safety
The National Aquatic and Recreation Signage Style manual;
Relevant standards including Water safety signs and beach safety flags and Risk management - Principles and guidelines
Consult with relevant community stakeholders including volunteer surf life saving clubs, beach safety liaison committees and other community organisations involved in or impacted by beach safety.
The iRisk app has been designed to allow more risk assessments to be completed with greater detail, accuracy and efficiency, making the process accessible to more people at a fraction of the cost of other solutions available.
Project Marketing
As this is a internal app for the SLSA, there was limited external marketing involved. A press release was generated internally to various Surf Life Saving Clubs and councils about the technology advances and the value of the application.
In Field Services
This category relates to applications developed in order to aid and facilitate organisations requiring mobility whilst out of the office.
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