Safety notices are a fact of life, they are issued by manufactures, parachute associations or government agencies to keep skydivers updated and safe. Our equipment then gets upgraded or modified accordingly.

However the system has many problems and the task of making sure our equipment is free from any safety bulletins has proven to be both very time consuming and not very accurate.

There are over 1,100 safety notice bulletins on parachute equipment from 42 manufacturers and 12 parachute associations and government agencies.

This is no longer a task that can be left to manually searching paper files which when placed on top of each other is pile 10" high (25cm) or relying on memory which has been greatly relied upon for many years, if you have any questions please e-mail Rigger@skydive-safety.com

This project has taken hundreds of hours to complete and thousands of pounds sterling in hard cash so if you find this system useful please help by one of the means below so we can continue to improve safety within skydiving

• Register with one of the paid subscriptions

• Advertise with Skydive Safety

Would you like to sponsor SID, if so please contact us as we would like to listen to any proposal that will help info@skydive-safety.com Please let us know what we can do for you in return

• We no longer have to rely on memory
• We no longer have to rely on a paper trail with information being lost
• New packers, riggers, instructors, etc can now learn from other peoples mistakes by using the safety database, equipment study guide
• One source means its the fastest and most reliable method to ensure a rig has no safety notices pending
• Easy to use and always up to date
• Totally unbiased international system, no borders or rules to prevent or delay passage of information
• Safety Information is available to view and print
• Real time passage of information direct from manufacturers, parachute associations to the skydiving industry with one click of a button
• E-mail support system, write in with any inquiry about either the safety notice database or your equipment concerns

Allan Hewitt originally presented the safety notice database to members of the BPA at an annual AGM back in 1996, at this time it was a windows 95 installation disk, for a complete history of this project read the History Page

The initial setup will be in english, however the complete website including the safety notices etc will be translated to allow members of the skydiving community to use this web site in the language they choose, this is of course a massive undertaking but the benefits will ensure the success of this project being a true world wide system.

All future safety notices will be distributed in english in real time, however the translated versions will be uploaded within a short period of time, we will be liaising with partners in each country to verify the accuracy in all languages.

The Safety Information Database (SID) is going through 3 phases to guarantee accuracy and relevancy

Phase 1 Is now complete with 400 safety information bulletins online from all sport parachute manufacturers past and present. These have all been integrated into the Database.

This is a list that has been collected by myself ever since I qualified as a rigger in 1989, these have been verified against all manufacturers web sites.

We are now asking parachute manufacturers to log in and personally inspect and verify this information, once this has been done we will move onto Phase Two

Phase 2 The remaining 700 safety information bulletins from parachute associations and government agencies are also online for your viewing and printing; however these are not yet part of the database.

When we have finished liaising with all parachute manufacturers and confirmed phase 1 we will then add these safety bulletins to make a total of over 1,100 that will be integrated into the database.

Phase 3 Is the key to making it easy for riggers and reserve packers to ensure that all equipment you work on is free of all relevant safety bulletins while reducing your administration time and improving safety.

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