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：商业捕捞职业安全研究合作协议(U01) 项目摘要/摘要 拟议的可行性研究将提供科学证据，以揭露和了解危重健康和 安全问题，确定资产和最佳实践解决方案，支持多年期计划的论点，以促进 美国东北部商业渔民的经济韧性、健康和安全。这项研究 将通过综合现有数据(例如，来自 NIOSH数据和统计门户；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绘制地图、面谈和重点小组。在……里面 短期内，这项研究将评估拟议的一系列举措是否是促进 经济韧性和特定区域的渔业工人的健康和安全，但方法 这些研究和发现可能会转化为其他地区和工人群体的政策和实践。 非营利组织渔业伙伴关系支持服务(FPS)将领导这项研究，采用多种方法， 从几个学科(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。安全培训是至关重要的 FPS以社区为基础的全面方法的组成部分，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。以前以社区为基础 研究表明，尽管安全培训是必要的，但这些培训不会带来可持续的结果。 除非其他关键障碍得到解决，否则将发生变化。行业工作者不会把安全和健康放在首位 直到他们能够满足与完成他们的工作相关的其他基本需求。全球部队，包括 低工资、繁重的法规、不一致的执法和气候变化将阻止 当前和拟议的健康和安全规划的可持续性。需要一种全面的方法来 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目标的框架 以及应对关键障碍和维持与以下方面相关的进展所需的系统性变化 最近联邦政府在他们的健康和安全方面的投资。通过这项研究，FPS将评估 在马萨诸塞州和其他东北部州将这一愿景转化为行动，并产生新的公众 可用于设计和实施可持续多年期项目的健康知识 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.