Fishing vessel safety : blueprint for a national program / Committee on Fishing Vessel Safety, Marine Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council
FISHING VESSEL SAFETY -- Copyright -- Preface -- BACKGROUND -- COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP -- SCOPE OF STUDY -- STUDY METHOD -- REPORT ORGANIZATION -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- WHAT ARE THE SAFETY PROBLEMS? -- CAN SAFETY BE IMPROVED? -- 1 The Need for New Approaches to Fishing Vessel Safety -- COMMERCIAL FISHING ACCIDENTS -- Vessels and Lives Lost -- Personal Injuries -- Defining the Population at Risk and Determining Who Is Responsible -- PRIOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS -- Federal Safety Programs
Federal Regulation and ComplianceIndustry Safety Programs -- International and Foreign Government Safety Activities -- SAFETY AS A TOTAL CONCEPT -- Establishing a Direction -- Safety Program Infrastructure -- Monitoring and Evaluating Safety Performance -- SUMMARY -- 2 Commercial Fishing: An Industry Overview -- FISHING INDUSTRY VESSELS AND FISHERMEN -- The Vessels -- Vessel Technology -- Commercial Fishermen -- Culture and Social Organization -- Fishermen as Participants in the Labor Market -- The Working Conditions
U.S. LAWS AFFECTING COMMERCIAL FISHINGFisheries Management -- Legal Liability -- REGIONAL FISHERIES -- North Atlantic Region -- South Atlantic Region -- The Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region -- Great Lakes and Inland Fisheries -- West Coast Region -- Distant-Water Fleet -- Alaska Region -- SUMMARY -- 3 The Commercial Fishing Safety Record -- DATA FOR ASSESSING FISHING INDUSTRY VESSEL SAFETY -- Fishing Fleet and Work Force Data -- Casualty Data -- VESSEL CASUALTIES -- Nature of Vessel Casualties -- Regional Distribution of Vessel Casualties
Casualty Distribution by Vessel LengthCasualty Distribution by Vessel Type and Usage -- Causes of Vessel Casualties -- Search and Rescue Data -- Vessel Casualty Rates -- Distribution of Search and Rescue Cases -- Differences in Vessel Casualty Rates -- FATALITIES -- Fatality Rates -- Proportional Mortality Rates -- Relationship of Fatalities to Survival Equipment -- PERSONAL INJURIES -- HUMAN FACTORS DATA -- STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING SAFETY DATA -- Improving Safety Data
Alternative 1: Establish a Comprehensive Statistical Data Collection, Analysis, and Utilization ProgramAlternative 2: Require Vessel Registration -- Alternative 3: Require Professional Registration -- SUMMARY -- 4 The Fishing Vessels -- THE VESSEL AS AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM -- Vessel Characteristics as a Safety Issue -- NATURE AND CAUSES OF FISHING VESSEL SAFETY PROBLEMS -- Vessel Casualties -- Flooding and Foundering (Sinking) -- Capsizings -- Fires and Explosions -- Groundings -- Collisions (Including Allisions) -- Material Failures
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index
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