Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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