About
Our Mission
The Australian Climbing Accident Register aims to encourage open disclosure of accidents, rescues and near misses in recreational climbing in the expectation of helping climbers to improve their risk identification and management in recreational climbing in Australia.
The Australian Climbing Accident Register is a product that does what it says on the box. It’s an online database which details accidents and serious near-misses during recreational climbing activities in Australia.
Several international publications compile similar data, as well as producing technical primers on relevant safety techniques. These publications include Accidents in North American Climbing for the United States and Canada, the BMC Incident and Near-Miss Reporting for the United Kingdom, and the SERAC database for Europe. Each helps build institutional memory within the sport.
Australia has had a variety of formal and informal approaches to accident reporting (various current and defunct internet forums, websites, podcasts, social media posts, club and media publications, youtube videos and closed databases) which makes any attempt at broad review difficult, but ACAR seeks to become a centralised location for this data collection.
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