USCG Recreational Boating Incident Reporting Policy Letter & BARD Updates Nov. 7, 2023

Overview
Speaker(s)

The webinar briefly covers major changes contained in the updated policy letter; previews products and guidance ERAC will be rolling out to states for use by officers/investigators, incident report reviewers and data entry personnel; and addresses the policy's significant impacts on BARD and its related processes and forms. An example of a state's update (Pennsylvania) is shared.

Tammy Terry

Natural Resources Administrator

Ohio DNR, Div. of Parks and Watercraft, Law Enforcement Section

Tammy Terry graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources. She currently serves as a Natural Resources Law Enforcement Program Manager for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Watercraft, where she has been employed since 1994. Terry is a long-time member of NASBLA’s Engineering, Reporting, and Analysis Committee and is currently serving her second term as chair of the committee.

Susan Weber

Statistician

U.S. Coast Guard Office of Auxiliary & Boating Safety

Susan Weber is a statistician with the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety. Susan manages the national data collection of recreational boating incident reports from state agencies to produce and publish an annual 80-page statistics report.