Charge to the workshop: delivering on the promise in the last frontier.

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• Personal Author:
  Lemen RA
• Description:
  The charge to the National Fishing Industry Safety and Health Workshop in Alaska was to increase awareness about fishing safety, and to encourage action to prevent injury and disease among commercial fishermen. In early times seafarers were faced with dietary deficiencies such as scurvy, dehydration, lead (7439921) colic, asphyxiation from poisonous gases, burns, infectious diseases, and seasickness. New diseases included bronchitis among crab workers due to inhalation of the toxic mouth foam from crabs. Other problems such as musculoskeletal skeletal injuries, noise induced hearing loss, neurotoxic disorders, and stress were also reported. Epidemiological studies from seven countries showed that injuries were the most common problem (33.6%). In Alaska, the injury rate in the fishing industry was 133.2 per 100,000, and was the highest in the US. Fires, explosions, and capsizing were listed as common causes. Interventions included a balance of health promotion through training and education, protection through safety and engineering controls, and prevention through health services, weather forecasting, rescue and resuscitation. Hazards caused by the extremes of climate in the Alaskan waters were mentioned. The author charged the workshop to share knowledge and experience toward preventing unnecessary deaths and injuries among fishery workers, and to deliver on the promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Ergonomics Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Toxicology
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Disease-prevention Epidemiology Fishing-industry Industrial-safety Marine-workers NIOSH-Author Occupational-accidents Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  28-33
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00222030
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the National Fishing Industry Safety and Health Workshop, Anchorage, Alaska, October 9-11, 1992. Myers ML, Klatt ML, eds. Anchorage, AK: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 94-109, 1994 Jan; :28-33
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Editor(s):
  Myers ML ; Klatt ML
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1141 - Fishing - (NAICS)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5cafbf45fd78cd4582c928e97ba621e068a6c7e53ec8bed7ed96e9a861a5e6c69851d818168010d9d1bbc8a83bda3fe07cf262bbaea0c2b5b540dd50cfc3c883
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180895/cdc_180895_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.19 MB ]