Most databases contain summaries of data that have either been simplified or manipulated. As a result, people who do not like the lessons that are derived from the data can question its objectivity.

This database also contains records that have been simplified and summarised. This allows the efficient identification of accidents with common features. However, in the DDIV the original accident/incident reports, photographs, statements and related documents are also included with each record. So, if you think the summary is not objective, you can refer back to the original. This website gives you access to these original incident records held behind the summaries in the DDIV.

You cannot search the database because the database software is not yet on-line. The database software will be re-coded to allow on-line searches if there is enough support for it. If you would like to search the database on-line, please send an email saying so.

Click here to look at a sample accident record.

 


Last updated: May 2006

This site is an independent asset, not mediated or supported by UNMAS, GICHD, JMU or any other well-funded actor in the HMA scene. To find out just how this site comes to exist, click here.

This website provides a gateway for people to read incident/accident reports and to download a range of documents related to incidents and accidents in humanitarian demining. It will eventually give access to all the records that were held in the Database of Demining Accidents at the end of 2005.

If you have anything you would like to add - comments or papers, improvements or criticisms - please send them by email.

THANKS!

To those who have written supporting this effort and, especially to those who have already made incident/accident reports available. The source for these records will not be recorded or revealed.

If you have details of demining incidents/accidents or of mines/devices missed during demining activity, please send them.

 

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