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This statistical bulletin combines drowning fatality rates by calendar month according to the UK Water Incident Database ("UK WAID") with overseas tourist visits, UK resident holiday's abroad, and hours worked by UK employees t...

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This statistical bulletin contrasts UK drowning fatality data as reported by the UK Water Incident Forum (UK WAID) with the leisure time survey data published by the ONS. 

Trends in drowning fatalities by weekday

• Reductions
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This statistical bulletin contains information on the UK drowning fatalities reported by the United Kingdom Water Incident Database ("UK WAID").  

Trends in UK drowning fatalities

• UK drowning fatalities across five years ha
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This report consolidates key aspects of the European Commission's Blue Economy Reports between 2009 and 2019. The Blue Economy comprises those activities which take place on or around water. Records ceased when the UK left the ...

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The following data is taken from the ONS Great Britain Tourism and Day Visits Surveys between 2011 and 2019.  

Trends in outdoor events

• Activity at the coast, marinas, and inland waters are all on the rise. 
• The largest ri
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Factual circumstances

Peter Griffiths purchased an all-inclusive holiday to Turkey from the defendant TUI UK Limited ("TUI") in August 2014. Whilst on holiday, he suffered a gastrointestinal illness which he c...

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 What is it reasonable to expect our lifeguards to achieve whilst supervising a swimming pool? This is an important question, and we refer to it as the standard of supervision. 

The standard of supervision is context-de...

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Anwaar Ali Ahmed (18 years old) was celebrating his birthday on a day trip out with six college friends who met at Brent Cross to celebrate completing their A-Level exams on Friday 4 July 2009. Mr Ahmed, k...

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Anthony Grant (56 years old) attended Mile End Leisure Centre, operated by GLL, on Friday, 19 August 2016.

GLL positioned a single lifeguard to provide continuous poolside supervision for the safety of p...

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This article examines the number of pool users a lifeguard can safely supervise in unprogrammed sessions, sometimes known as the lifeguard-to-pool user ratio. 

How many pool users can one lifeguard supervise in an un...