COMMERCIAL FISHING SAFETY TRAINING

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将增加阿拉斯加海洋安全教育协会（AMSEA）培训培训师和商业捕鱼安全讲习班的工作。AMSEA的目标是像过去25年那样，继续在阿拉斯加和美国各地建立一个以港口为基础的捕鱼安全指导员网络。目标是让渔民拥有来自渔业行业的可靠的渔业安全指导员，他们了解当地和当地渔业风险。这一项目与工作场所的公共卫生密切相关。尽管在过去20年中有所下降，但商业捕鱼仍然是美国主要职业中职业死亡率最高的职业。最近的联邦培训要求也将增加渔船操作员所需的安全培训数量。还需要对渔民进行更新安全培训。该国大部分地区仍然缺乏培训基础设施，无法提供与渔业有关的安全培训，也无法满足新的要求。新培训师参加海岸警卫队认可的48小时强化海上安全教官培训（MSIT）课程，该课程提供海上安全设备和程序、指导方法以及如何减少培训和渔业风险的实践。然后，这些教官与经验丰富的AMSEA培训协调员共同教授商业渔民，并对他们进行指导，直到他们有效。AMSEA的工作人员免费为这些新教师提供时间、培训设备和新的教学资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will increase the train the trainer and commercial fishing safety workshop efforts of the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA). AMSEA's goal is to continue to build a network of port-based fishing safety instructors around Alaska and the U.S. as it has for the last 25 years. The goal is for fishermen to have credible fishing safety instructors from the fishing industry who know the local area and local fishery risks. The relevance of this project to public health in the workplace is severe. Commercial fishing still suffers from the highest occupational fatality rate of any major occupation in the U.S. despite decreases in the last 20 years. Recent Federal training requirements will also increase the amount of safety training needed by operators of fishing vessels. Refresher safety training of fishermen will also be required. Large areas of the nation still lack training infrastructure to deliver safety training relevant to the fishing industry and to meet new mandates. New trainers take a Coast Guard- accepted intensive 48 hour Marine Safety Instructor- Training (MSIT) course that provides practice in marine safety equipment and procedures, methods of instruction and how to reduce risks in training and fisheries. These instructors then co-teach commercial fishermen with experienced AMSEA Training Coordinators and they are mentored until they are effective. AMSEA staff provides their time, training equipment and new teaching resources at no cost to these new instructors. Central to these training efforts is the emphasis on performance-based, hands on training. Fishermen need to complete an assessment in skills, like immersion suit donning in a timed interval, stating an emergency radio message, righting and entering a life raft in the water and other skills which casualty reports have stated were not performed correctly and resulted in fatalities. About 50% of this training effort will take place outside Alaska on all coasts of the U.S. These short one to two day workshops in Emergency Drill Conductor, Cold Water Survival, Stability/Flooding Control, etc. will help fishermen meet the new requirements and provide much needed emergency skills to thousands of fishermen in scores of far flung ports in the U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project has critical relevance to public health in the particular area of occupational safety. Commercial fishing is the most hazardous occupation in the U.S, with poorly enforceable and minimal training requirements, while at the same time there are no training qualifications of any kind for a crew member or an owner operator. This project would enable compliance with new safety training regulations by bringing performance based safety skills training to distant ports around Alaska and throughout the U.S. by training a qualified network of community based marine safety instructors.