Injury Prevention in the West Coast Dungeness Crab Fleet

 描述(由申请人提供)：西海岸邓吉尼斯蟹队是美国风险最高的商业捕鱼船队之一。虽然显然需要继续注意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。在之前发表的研究中，邓吉尼斯蟹船队的非致命伤害模式没有被探索过。这项从研究到实践的项目将衡量西海岸Dungeness蟹队的非致命伤害风险，表征危险，制定有针对性的伤害预防策略，并测试现场伤害预防干预措施，现场伤害数据将包括美国海岸警卫队(USCG)的伤害数据，以及从西海岸船队收集的主要伤害描述数据，这些数据收集在从华盛顿到加利福尼亚州中部的九个地区。受伤将通过工作分类系统进行分类，我们将使用以前的系统为敦刻内斯螃蟹船队开发专门的工作分类系统。最后，将与舰队合作进行有针对性的干预开发和测试。我们将让螃蟹渔民参与预防伤害的工作，并将船队纳入该项目的所有方面，包括让以渔业社区为基础的研究人员参与该项目。我们的多学科团队包括俄勒冈州海洋赠款的海洋渔业推广人员和俄勒冈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。随着这个项目的成功，我们将确定可以应用于该舰队和其他舰队的有针对性的伤害预防方法和伤害流行病学方法。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伤害的数量、比率和严重程度。更具体地说，这项研究与行动步骤8.3.1一致，即确定数据源，以分析和确定导致渔业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.