Queensland Pool Immersion Incident Record
Records of a pool immersion incident involving a young child (under 5) in Queensland under the Building Act 1975: the hospital notice to the chief executive (health) under s 245G (name and date of birth of the young child, day of the examination, address of the child's parents, address where the incident happened), the onward notice to QBCC, the local government and the Family and Child Commissioner under s 245I, and the council's follow-up pool inspection under s 246ADA, together with council drowning and near-drowning incident files. Pool immersion information may be disclosed only as allowed by s 257A. Public pool safety certificate and regulated pools register entries, pool fencing guidance, the statute text and drowning statistics are decoys.
- Type
- regex
- Engine
- boost_regex
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence justification
- Medium: "pool immersion incident" and the s 245G notice fields come straight from the Building Act 1975, but the statute, QBCC and Queensland Health guidance and water-safety campaigns repeat them, so enforce tiers need populated child, location or incident fields. Pool safety certificate and form numbers are not used because their formats and form numbers are unverified. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
- Jurisdictions
- au, au-qld
- Regulations
- Building Act 1975 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
- Frameworks
- QGISCF
- Data categories
- children, health, pii, location
- Scope
- narrow
- Risk rating
- 7
- Platform compatibility
- Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported
Pattern
(?i)\b(?:pool\s+immersion\s+(?:incidents?|notices?|information|notifications?|reports?)|(?:child\s+)?immersion\s+incidents?|(?:non[\s-]+fatal\s+)?drowning\s+(?:incidents?|notifications?)|near[\s-]+drowning|s(?:ection|\.)?\s{0,2}(?:245G|245I|246ADA)\b)Corroborative evidence keywords
hospital, emergency department, ambulance, CPR, resuscitation, QBCC, pool fence, pool gate, pool barrier, regulated pool, pool safety inspector, coroner
Proximity: 300 characters
Should match
Pool immersion notice (Building Act 1975 s 245I) Name of young child: Lachlan Teston Date of birth: 02/05/2023 Date of examination: 14/09/2026 Address where the immersion incident happened: 27 Paperbark Crescent, Kirwan QLD 4817 Condition: admitted to paediatric ICU after CPR by a parent; pool gate found propped open— Immersion notice with child name, DOB, examination date, incident address and outcome (85 tier)Council pool inspection following immersion incident - s 246ADA Child: Ava Staffson, age: 2 years Pool address: 9 Kingfisher Street, Bundaberg QLD 4670 Barrier condition: self-closing latch on pool gate not engaging; QBCC notified.— Council s 246ADA inspection record with child, pool address and barrier defect (85 tier)Near-drowning at private residence. Incident address: 41 Ridgeview Drive, Toowoomba QLD 4350. Inspection booked.— Near-drowning note with a populated location field only (75 tier)Pool immersion incident referred by Queensland Health. Date of incident: 06/09/2026 Outcome: discharged the following day.— Immersion referral with incident date and outcome only (75 tier)
Should not match
245G Requirement to report pool immersion incident (1) A person in charge of a hospital must notify the chief executive (health) if an examination of a young child indicates that the child has been involved in a pool immersion incident. Maximum penalty - 20 penalty units. (2) The notice must include the name and date of birth of the young child and the address where the pool immersion incident happened.— Building Act statute text (statute exclusion)Pool safety certificate Certificate number: PSC0045821 Property address: 12 Lilly Pilly Court, Cairns QLD 4870 Pool type: in-ground, non-shared Issued: 03/08/2026, expires 03/08/2027— Public regulated pools register / certificate entry (no immersion primary)Pool immersion notice - blank template Name of young child: ____________ Date of birth: ____________ Address where the immersion incident happened: ____________ CPR performed: Yes / No— Blank notice formNational Drowning Report 2026: 14 children under five drowned in home swimming pools and many more were hospitalised after non-fatal drowning incidents. Check your pool fence and gate.— Drowning statistics and water-safety campaign (65 only)
Known false positives
- The Building Act, QBCC and Queensland Health guidance and water-safety campaigns name pool immersion incidents. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need populated child, location or incident fields; a statute/guidance exclusion suppresses penalty wording, the legislation site and campaign reports.
- Public pool safety certificate and regulated pools register entries with property addresses. Mitigation: Those entries do not contain the immersion or drowning primary, so they do not reach any tier. Nonconformity notices and certificates are intentionally out of scope (risk 3 per the research).
- Surf lifesaving and aquatic centre rescue logs that use "drowning incident". Mitigation: A rescue log with a named person and location reaches 75; it is still sensitive health information. Deploy at 85 in aquatic centre file shares if noise is a concern.