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 Safety
AVA
Injury Reporting
AVA provides detailed
accident reporting as does the United
States Pony Club (USPC). Maintaining
and submitting detailed injury reporting
is a membership requirement for all AVA
clubs. These injury reports are reviewed
and summarized by a safety committee and
published each year in Vaulting World magazine.
The Health Resources
and Safety Administration (HRSA) states
that youth safety
advocates should “collect, monitor,
and publish horse-related injury data including
type of injury, helmet use, time of day,
surface type, surface conditions, location,
how injury occurred, adult supervision,
level of training and rider experience.
The American
Medical Equestrian Association states that records
of horse-related accidents
provide means to learn about these accidents,
how they can be prevented and/or their
severity reduced. AMEA reports that most
activities do not keep records of injuries,
some reporting that their activities do
not have accidents or injuries. AMEA recommends
that equestrian organizations appoint a
safety committee, conduct a study of the
organization’s activities to determine
where, when and what type of injuries are
occurring in the activities and then make
recommendation to change rules and procedures
to those that have been shown to increase
safety.
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AVA Injury Summary Reports; AMEA; HRSA.
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