Description

Hazards:

  • Inadequate staff training or qualifications
  • Trailers for transported equipment
  • Inexperience / Lack of competence of participants
  • Capsize or falling/ jumping into water
  • Unable to stay afloat
  • Trapped under water in boat
  • Unable to re-enter boat
  • Sudden or prolonged immersion in water
  • Equipment failure
  • Canals
  • Slow moving rivers
  • Urban areas near factory or sewage outlets.
  • Water Pollution due to vermin etc.
  • Moving/ white water i.e. rivers.
  • Trapped under water in boat by current.
  • Collision against rocks/obstacles in river
  • Slips, trips and falls / collisions (general)
  • Coastal/sea kayaking
  • Capsize in deep / shallow water.
  • Prolonged immersion in water
  • Carried out to sea by rip tide / wind
  • Exhaustion