Injury Prevention in the West Coast Dungeness Crab Fleet

 描述（由申请人提供）：西海岸邓杰内斯蟹船队是美国风险最高的商业捕鱼船队之一。虽然显然需要继续关注减少致命伤害的风险，但非致命伤害在很大程度上仍未得到解决。邓杰内斯螃蟹船队的非致命伤害模式在以前发表的研究中还没有被探讨过。该研究实践项目将测量西海岸邓杰内斯螃蟹船队中非致命伤害的风险，描述危害，制定有针对性的伤害预防策略，并在现场测试伤害预防干预措施。伤害数据将包括美国海岸警卫队（USCG）的伤害数据，并辅以西海岸船队伤害描述的主要数据收集，从华盛顿到加州中部的九个地区收集。我们将使用以前的系统为邓杰内斯螃蟹船队制定具体的工作分类系统，对受伤情况进行分类。最后，将与舰队合作进行有针对性的干预开发和测试。我们将让捕蟹渔民参与伤害预防，并将船队纳入该项目的各个方面，包括让渔业社区的研究人员参与该项目。我们的多学科团队包括来自俄勒冈州海洋赠款的海洋渔业推广人员和俄勒冈州州立大学的公共卫生研究人员，以及NIOSH阿拉斯加太平洋办事处（APO）的联邦合作伙伴。随着该项目的成功，我们将确定有针对性的伤害预防方法和伤害流行病学方法，可以应用于这个和其他船队。该项目涉及NIOSH农业，林业和渔业（AgFF）战略目标8：减少涉及商业捕鱼危险的创伤性伤害的数量，比率和严重程度。更具体地说，本研究符合行动步骤8.3.1，即确定数据来源，以分析和确定渔业导致严重非致命伤害的高风险作业。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The West Coast Dungeness crab fleet is one of the highest risk commercial fishing fleets in the United States. While continued attention is clearly needed on reducing the risk of fatal injuries, non-fatal injuries have remained largely unaddressed. The patterns of non-fatal injuries in the Dungeness crab fleet have not been explored in previously published research. This research-to-practice project will measure the risk of non-fatal injuries in the West Coast Dungeness crab fleet, characterize the hazards, develop targeted injury prevention strategies and test injury prevention interventions in the field Injury data will include US Coast Guard (USCG) injury data supplemented with primary data collection of injury descriptions from the West Coast fleet, collected in nine regions spanning from Washington to central California. The injuries will be categorized with a Work Classification System we will develop specific for the Dungeness crab fleets using previous systems. Finally, targeted intervention development and testing will be done in cooperation with the fleet. We will engage the crab fishermen in injury prevention and include the fleet in all aspects of this project including having fishing community-based researchers participate in the project. Our multidisciplinary team includes marine fisheries extension staff from Oregon Sea Grant and public health researchers at Oregon State University, as well as federal partners at the NIOSH Alaska Pacific Office (APO). With the success of this project, we will identify targeted injury prevention methods and injury epidemiological methods that can be applied to this and other fleets. This project addresses the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AgFF) Strategic Goal 8: Reduce the number, rate, and severity of traumatic injuries involving hazards of commercial fishing. More specifically, this study aligns with Action Step 8.3.1, which is to identiy data sources to analyze and determine high risk operations leading to serious non-fatal injuries by fishery.