A Feasibility Study to Inform a Multi-Year Comprehensive Health and Safety Initiative for Commercial Fishermen in the Northeastern United States

RFA-OH-20-002：商业捕鱼职业安全研究合作协议（U 01） 项目总结/摘要 拟议的可行性研究将提供科学证据，以揭示和了解关键的健康和 安全问题，确定资产和最佳实践解决方案，并支持多年计划的论点，以促进 美国东北部商业渔民的经济弹性、健康和安全。研究 将通过综合现有数据（例如，来自 NIOSH数据和统计网关;海岸警卫队;文献综述），来自社区资产的新信息 就有效的战略和优先事项以及新的成本分析进行绘图、访谈和焦点小组讨论。在 在短期内，研究将评估一套拟议的举措是否是一种可行的手段， 经济复原力和健康和安全渔业工人在特定区域，但办法， 研究和调查结果可能会转化为其他区域和工人群体的政策和做法。 非营利组织渔业伙伴关系支持服务（FPSS）将使用多种方法领导这项研究， 吸引来自多个学科的内部和外部研究人员（公共/行为健康，心理学， 经济学）与渔业成员和政策制定者合作。安全培训是关键 FPSS的一个组成部分，以社区为基础的综合方法，以改善健康，安全和 马萨诸塞州和大西洋中部渔业社区的经济安全。先前基于社区的 研究表明，虽然安全培训是必要的，但这些培训不会导致可持续的 除非其他关键障碍得到解决。工业工人不会优先考虑他们的安全和健康 直到他们能够满足与完成工作相关的其他基本需求。全球力量，包括 低工资，繁琐的法规，不一致的执法，以及气候变化，将阻止 目前和拟议的健康和安全方案的可持续性。必须采取整体办法， 可持续的变化。2020年，马萨诸塞州渔业领导人起草了一份实现长期 和系统性变革，以应对关键障碍并维持与 最近联邦在他们的健康和安全方面的投资。通过这项研究，FPSS将评估 在马萨诸塞州和其他东北部各州将这一愿景转化为行动， 可用于设计和实施可持续多年项目的卫生知识 计划

RFA-OH-20-002: Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement (U01) Project Summary/Abstract The proposed feasibility study will provide scientific evidence to expose and understand critical health and safety issues, identify assets and best practice solutions, and support arguments for a multi-year plan to foster economic resilience, health, and safety of commercial fishermen in the Northeastern United States. The study will contribute new knowledge to public health by synthesizing existing data (e.g., worker health data from the NIOSH Data and Statistics Gateway; Coast Guard; literature review), new information from community asset mapping, interviews, and focus groups on effective strategies and priorities, as well as new cost analyses. In the short term, the study will assess whether a proposed set of initiatives is a feasible means of fostering economic resilience and health and safety fishing industry workers in a particular region, but the approach to the research and findings may translate to policy and practice in other regions and worker populations. Fishing Partnership Support Services (FPSS), a non-profit, will lead the study, using a multi-method approach, engaging internal and external researchers from several disciplines (public/behavioral health, psychology, economics) in collaboration with members of the fishing industry and policy makers. Safety training is a critical component of FPSS' comprehensive, community-based approach to improving the health, safety and economic security of fishing communities in Massachusetts and the mid-Atlantic. Prior community-based research suggests that, while safety trainings are necessary, these trainings will not result in sustainable change unless other critical barriers are addressed. Industry workers will not prioritize their safety and health until they can meet the other basic needs associated with accomplishing their work. Global forces, including low wages, burdensome regulations, inconsistent law enforcement, and climate change, will prevent the sustainability of current and proposed health and safety programming. A holistic approach is necessary for sustainable change. In 2020, Massachusetts fishing leaders drafted a framework for achieving the long term and systemic changes needed to respond to the critical barriers and sustain the advances associated with recent federal investments in their health and safety. Through this study, FPSS will assess the feasibility of translating that vision into action in Massachusetts and other Northeastern states and generate new public health knowledge that can be used in service of designing and implementing a sustainable multi-year project plan.