To comply with the UN's International Mine Action Standards (IMAS), all accidents should be reported by the demining group and by any National Mine Action Authority (NMAA) to the UN Mine Action Service, UNMAS. UNMAS then makes the reports available to be included in the DDAS database.
Reports should be compiled and submitted whenever there is an unintended detonation or an intended detonation that causes injury at a demining worksite. Non-injurious accidents are very informative, and can indicate that appropriate procedures, tools and PPE were used. The details of non-injurious accidents can be especially important to share with others.
I am a trusted member of the IMAS Review Board and the originator of the DDAS, so many demining NGOs and national authorities make their accident reports available directly to me for inclusion in the DDAS. To do this, email them to [avs(at)nolandmines.com]. Include all support documents and pictures when you can. If you want to be acknowledged as a source, please say so. Sources are not disclosed unless they express a wish for their names to be included.
All names of people and demining groups are removed and common accident features are identified before the accident report is made available to others.
To see a default reporting format that can be used when writing an accident report, click here. This opens a *.PDF file in Adobe Reader.
To download the same default reporting format as a document file that can be used to write an accident report, click here.
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