Hooked on Safety: Using Public Health Methods to Prevent Accidents in Alaska

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• Personal Author:
  Mode N
• Description:
  NIOSH's successful work with commercial fishermen demonstrates that by merging injury epidemiology with engineering interventions and industry input, effective safety programs can be designed and implemented. The public health approach of using data and research to drive collaborative programs to address occupational safety and health issues has proven effective. The working relationships that NIOSH staff developed with other federal and state agencies, nonprofit groups, and the industry, took time. NIOSH had to prove that it had something to offer and that it would treat the other groups as collaborators. The results have been impressive. The number of all occupational fatalities in Alaska has decreased by 67 percent from 1990 to 2005, the number of occupational fatalities in fishing events declined by 73 percent. The Alaskan annual occupational fatality rate has dropped from more than five times the national rate in the 1980s, to three times the national rate in 2004. The public health approach to occupational injury prevention has proven successful in Alaska and serves as an example for application to other industries and areas of the country. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Epidemiology Hunting Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Engineering-controls Fishing-industry Injuries Injury-prevention Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Statistical-analysis Traumatic-injuries

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• ISSN:
  1536-9102
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  APRO - Alaska Pacific Regional Office
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032773
• Citation:
  Northwest Public Health 2006 Fall/Winter; :6-7, 24
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1141 - Fishing - (NAICS)
• Source Full Name:
  Northwest Public Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186619/cdc_186619_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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