Commercial Fishing Safety Training

商业捕鱼安全培训

• 批准号: 10285949
• 负责人: JERRY DZUGAN
• 金额: $ 9.94万
• 依托单位: ALASKA MARINE SAFETY EDUCATION ASSN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10285949
• 关键词: Commercial; Fishing; Safety; Training

PROJECT SUMMARY J. DZUGAN This project will continue the delivery of Coast Guard required training for commercial fishermen to reduce the loss of life due to falls overboard and vessel loss. This project is very relevant to public health in the workplace. Commercial fishing is usually ranked the first or second highest risk occupation. The Coast Guard requires monthly emergency drills on most commercial fishing vessels that work offshore. These drills cover the prevention and emergency response of crew during the emergencies of fall overboard, flooding, fire and abandon ship. These emergencies caused the majority of deaths from 2000-2015 and over the last three decades. The drills must be conducted by a formally trained Emergency Drill Conductor (EDC). As the only provider of Coast Guard Accepted EDC training in Alaska, we intend to use our vast experience and extensive partnerships in the industry and in rural ports of Alaska to continue the availability of this performance based, hands on training to a new generation of fishermen. In this project, we will continue to hold our Coast Guard Accepted Marine Safety Instructor-Training (MSIT) workshops, to train new port based instructors to deliver EDC training to fishermen in their own or nearby fishing ports Having port based instructors eliminates the need to travel to distant rural ports- a difficulty in these times. Alaska led the nation in fishing fatalities 30 years ago with 30 to 40 fatalities a year- a major public health and safety issue. However, in part through the past training of fishermen in EDC and other safety courses, Alaska now has the third lowest number of fatalities out of the four main regions of the nation. Average yearly fatalities in the last 10 years are in single digits. Over 277 fishermen have survived an emergency at sea who have had training in our past projects. This project will also address the main cause of injury in Alaska fisheries, which are chronic Muscular-Skeletal Disorders (MSDs) of the upper extremities. These injuries have been the leading cause of insurance claims according to data from the Alaska Fishermen’s Fund, a long established state run insurance pool. We have experience with delivering in-person ergonomics training to thousands of fish workers. However, we intend to transfer our commercial fishing training to an on-line optional format, due to present and future travel restrictions and costs.

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