Norfolk Water Safety Forum
The Norfolk Water Safety Forum brings together partners from Norfolk and national agencies with the primary aim of increasing safety on Norfolk’s extensive waterways and coastal areas. The Forum’s aims are to prevent incidents, reduce risk and educate the public. With 91 miles of coastline and more than 200 miles of inland waterways, there are plenty of spaces open to the public to enjoy the water safely.
The Norfolk Water Safety Strategy aims to prevent drowning fatalities and other water safety incidents by working in partnership to ensure consistent guidance for the safe enjoyment and management of activities in, on and around water. To do this, it has committed to five priority areas, identifying the need:
- For better data and information about who is at the greatest risk of water safety incidents so that we can target our resources.
- To ensure that our children and young people are educated about water safety.
- To understand how to mitigate high risk behaviours – such as drinking alcohol while out on the water – and high risk sites.
- To build on our already good communications to ensure our message is clear, accessible, coordinated and understood by all.
- To bring leadership and resources to promoting water safety.