کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
573089 877389 2010 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Britain's most hazardous occupation: Commercial fishing
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی شیمی بهداشت و امنیت شیمی
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Britain's most hazardous occupation: Commercial fishing
چکیده انگلیسی

The main objectives of this study were to investigate the causes and circumstances of all fatal work-related accidents in the UK fishing industry from 1996 to 2005, to compare fatal accident rates with those in all other British occupations and industries and in the general British workforce, and to establish long term trends in the fatal accident rate in UK fishing since 1919.Of 160 deaths from work-related accidents in the UK fishing industry from 1996 to 2005, 86 arose from incidents involving fishing vessels and 74 were from personal accidents, with a fatal accident rate of 102 per 100,000 fishermen-years. After fishermen, the next most hazardous occupations were dockers and stevedores (28 per 100,000), refuse and salvage workers (25), agricultural machinery drivers (18), steel erectors, road construction workers (both 15), roofers (13) and scaffolders (12). The fatal accident rate among fishermen was 115 times greater than in the general British workforce, while there has been little reduction in the fatal accident rate in the UK fishing industry in the last 60 years.This study shows that commercial fishing is by far the most hazardous occupation in Britain. Prevention of fatal accidents should focus on increased use of personal flotation devices, reductions in lone fishing and the use of unstable, unseaworthy and badly maintained fishing vessels.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Accident Analysis & Prevention - Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 44–49
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