The objective was to illuminate the experience of injuries and the process of injury reporting within the Swedish skydiving\r\nculture. Data contained narrative interviews that were subsequently analyzed with content analysis. Seventeen respondents (22ââ?¬â??44\r\nyears) were recruited at three skydiving drop zones in Sweden. In the results injury events related to the full phase of a skydive\r\nwere described. Risk of injury is individually viewed as an integrated element of the recreational activity counterbalanced by its\r\nrecreational value.The human factor of inadequate judgment such as miscalculation and distraction dominates the descriptions as\r\ncauses of injuries. Organization and leadership act as facilitators or constrainers for reporting incidents and injuries. On the basis\r\nof this study it is interpreted that safety work and incident reporting in Swedish skydiving may be influenced more by local drop\r\nzone culture than the national association regulations. Formal and informal hierarchical structures among skydivers seem to decide\r\nhow skydiving is practiced, rules are enforced, and injuries are reported.We suggest that initial training and continuing education\r\nneed to be changed from the current top-down to a bottom-up perspective, where the individual skydiver learns to see the positive\r\nimplications of safety work and injury reporting.
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